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Smart Cities - invitation for the course

Smart City
Gdańsk University of Technology (GUT), together with the ERASMUS+ Project Strengthening Governance Capacity for Smart Sustainable Cities (CAP4CITY), starts the MOOC of Open and Smart Government.

The course is completely free, taught in English, with the option of downloading the presentations and subtitles.

Prof. PhD. Aleksander Orłowski, PhD. Magdalena Ciesielska, and  PhD. Grażyna Musiatowicz-Podbiał from Gdańsk University of Technology will be presenting the following lectures:

Cooperative Education Program with Dezhou University

Dezhou University (DZU)
The Chinese Ministry of Education has approved an undergraduate cooperative education program between Gdańsk University of Technology and Dezhou University (DZU) seated in the Shandong Province in the People’s Republic of China.

The GUT’s part of the undertaking is an interfaculty program in Power Engineering run by the Faculty of Electrical and Control Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, and the Faculty of Ocean Engineering and Ship Technology.

The international Galileo Award for an architect from GUT

Dr. Eng. Arch. Karolina Zielińska-Dąbkowska
Dr. Eng. Arch. Karolina Zielińska-Dąbkowska, assistant professor at the Department of Urban Architecture and Waterscapes, Faculty of Architecture GUT, was awarded the international Galileo Award 2020, by the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) which is based in the USA.

The Galileo Award was established by the IDA Europe in 2003 and has traditionally been presented at the European Symposium for the Protection of the Night Sky. Only one award is awarded each year "in recognition of outstanding achievements in research or academic work on light pollution over a multiple-year period".

GUT in the second place among Polish universities in the field of ‘engineering’

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In the latest edition of THE University Subject Rankings 2021, Gdańsk University of Technology was ranked second among Polish universities in the field of ‘engineering’.

The university has been classified in three areas: engineering, computer science and physical sciences. In the field of engineering GUT once again took second place among Polish universities, while in the field of physical sciences it recorded an increase with respect to the previous rankings by taking third place among Polish universities (last year it was the fifth position).

GUT is the coordinator monitoring the epidemic situation at universities in the Pomeranian Voivodeship

Covid
The Conference of Rectors of Academic Schools in Poland (KRASP), together with the Ministry of Science and Higher Education decided to appoint 16 provincial (regional) coordinators whose task will be to monitor the epidemic situation at universities in individual regions. Gdańsk University of Technology will be the coordinating university in the Pomeranian Voivodeship. The person appointed by the ministry as coordinator at GUT is prof. Krzysztof Wilde, corresponding member of the PAS, rector of Gdańsk University of Technology.

Coordinators, in cooperation with the voivode and the authorities of other universities, will collect and update data on the number of confirmed infections, quarantine referrals and other alarming events related to the epidemic occurring at universities (including dormitories) in a given region.

More information and a list of coordinating universities in individual provinces can be found on the website of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

K&TTC director is a member the ministry's advisory team

Damian Kuźniewski
In October, Damian Kuźniewski, director of the Center for Knowledge and Technology Transfer at Gdańsk University of Technology, was appointed to the Advisory Team for the development of the assumptions for the evaluation of knowledge and technology transfer at the Ministry of Education and Science.

Changes taking place in higher education, thanks to e.g. introducing the Constitution for Science, generate the need for new ways of assessing their effectiveness. In addition to evaluating the quality of education, a method of assessing knowledge and technology transfer is needed as well. A new advisory team, composed of representatives of several Polish universities, both experts - practitioners and scientists, is to deal with the development of new assessment methods. The 10-person team is just starting its activity.

The Dean of the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering is a member of the Scientific Council of GDDKiA

PhD, DSc, Eng. Joanna Żukowska, university professor, dean of the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering
PhD, DSc, Eng. Joanna Żukowska, university professor, dean of the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Gdańsk University of Technology, has been appointed to the group of experts of the Scientific Council by the General Director of National Roads and Motorways.

Prof. Joanna Żukowska has joined the group of scientists advising the General Director of National Roads and Motorways on tasks and challenges related to the development and maintenance of the national road network in Poland.

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