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Professor Piotr Lorens - the architect of the City of Gdańsk

prof. Piotr Lorens
Prof. Piotr Lorens from the Department of Urban Design and Regional Planning at the Faculty of Architecture was elected the City Architect. His main task will be to ensure the good quality of architecture and urban planning in Gdańsk and to coordinate the development of green spaces. The scientist will manage a new unit in the Municipal Office, which is being created from the merger of the Municipal Monument Conservator and the Planning and Marketing Department of the Architecture and Town Planning Department.

Over 70 percent of urbanized areas in Gdańsk is covered with spatial development plans. This is one of the highest rates in the country. The newly created plans more and more precisely regulate such parameters as building lines, service frontages, green areas. The competences of the City Architect will consist in the implementation of spatial policy, cooperation with investors and dialogue with the inhabitants of Gdańsk, in order to harmoniously develop the city and meet the needs of many social groups.

Fahrenheit University Association. Virtual meeting of rectors with the minister

4 rectors
Establishment of the Fahrenheit University Association is one of the most important events in the academic history of Gdańsk and Pomerania. On Friday, the Minister of Education and Science, Przemysław Czarnek, was familiarized with the plans for the development of the Association's activities and the opportunities that the consolidation of Pomeranian universities may offer.

In the fall of last year, the Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk University of Technology and the University of Gdańsk established the Daniel Fahrenheit Association of Universities in Gdańsk. The main goal of its creation is the joint building of the leading position of Gdańsk as an academic center in Poland and abroad, and the initiators of the creation of the Association, i.e.

First project with funding awarded under the CARBONIUM program

Carbonium
The funding will support the co-organization of an international remote conference on modern gas and wind turbines, 14th European Turbomachinery Conference, which will be held on 12-16 April 2021.  

Funding in the amount of PLN 35 000 was awarded to Prof. Dariusz Mikielewicz for the project entitled "Co-organization of 14th European Turbomachinery Conference ETC-14, Gdańsk, 12-16 April 2021".

The project will be implemented under the POB EkoTech center.

Information about the planned conference is available at: https://www.etc14.eu/

Six projects promoting Gdańsk University of Technology among high school students received funding under the URANIUM program

Uranium
Six creative projects promoting Gdańsk University of Technology among high school students received funding under the URANIUM SUPPORTING COOPERATION WITH HIGH SCHOOLS program for a total value of nearly PLN 170 000. Implementation of the projects will enable the development of cooperation with high schools outside the TriCity encouraging students to continue their studies at one of the numerous technical faculties of the Gdańsk University of Technology.

In the completed call, 11 applications were submitted, of which the following projects received funding:


1. Space technologies as a source of strong impact attracting ambitious and talented candidates to Gdańsk University of Technology
Project leader: Adam Dąbrowski, M.Sc: PLN 29,997

2. 92 - atomic mathematical puzzles
Project manager: Dorota Żarek, M.Sc: PLN 21,083.14

3. Lessons in structural mechanics in theory and practice
Project manager: Agnieszka Tomaszewska, Ph: PLN 29,920

Pioneer brain surgery with the participation of Michał Kucewicz, PhD from Gdańsk Tech

Pioneer brain surgery in Wrocław. Photo: private archive
A pioneer brain surgery was performed in Wrocław, during which PhD Michał Kucewicz, who runs the Brain and Mind Electrophysiology Laboratory at the Department of Multimedia Systems, Gdańsk Tech, registered the signals from electrodes implanted deep into the patient's brain using electrophysiological equipment. The conducted research project may be a breakthrough in the study of the mechanisms of human memo ry and in the fight against Parkinson's disease

The research carried out by PhD Michał Kucewicz and his participation in the complicated operation were possible thanks to the First Team project of the Foundation for Polish Science, implemented as part of the cooperation of the Brain and Mind Electrophysiology Laboratory (operating within the Department of Multimedia Systems FETI, under the aegis of the BioTechMed Gdańsk Tech Center), Mayo Clinic medical center (Rochester, USA) and the Medical University of Silesian Piasts in Wrocław.

Metals 2020 Outstanding Reviewer Award to Aleksandra Świerczyńska, PhD Eng.

diploma of Outstanding Reviewer Award,2020

Aleksandra Świerczyńska, PhD Eng., from the Welding Engineering Group of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Shipbuilding, was among the top five reviewers awarded the 2020 Outstanding Reviewer Award by the editors of the journal Metals, out of approximately 4,200 reviewers actively working for the journal. The award is given in recognition of commitment to peer review: high quality and timely reviews of scientific articles.

Scientists from FETI with the award of the Minister of Education and Science

logotype: Ministry of Education and Science
The team of employees of the Department of Multimedia Systems at the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics of GUT was among the winners of the Awards of the Minister of Education and Science.

The minister awarded the team of scientists from FETI for significant achievements in scientific and implementation activities. The group included: prof.

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