The end of 2020 brought numerous publications of international university rankings. Gdańsk University of Technology was classified in three of them: UI GreenMetric, QS EECA and EngiRank.
First honourable mention to Maciej Starostka, PhD, in the competition for the J. P. Schauder Prize for young mathematicians.
The end of the year is traditionally a time for rankings and summaries. The year 2020 was certainly "unusual", but we would like to end this difficult year on a positive note. There is a unique opportunity to do so - the announcement of the winners of the Competition of the Dean of the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering for the best thesis in the academic year 2019/20.
Members of the University Council for the term 2021-2024 were elected by the Senate of Gdańsk University of Technology during the meeting on 16 December 2020. The Council consists of five people from outside the university, one person from the university and the chairperson of the student government.
Composition of the GUT University Council 2021-2024:
- Wojciech Falkowski - president of the management board of Ecol-Group Ltd.,
Karolina Matuszewska from the GUT Faculty of Management and Economics has been elected the new chairwoman of the GUTSG for 2021. She replaced Jakub Brzoska in this position for the previous two terms.
The Academic Sports Gala takes place in autumn each year and is a summary of ASA’s activities during the academic year. Although the restrictions had a significant impact on academic sports, we managed to conduct the entire series of Polish Academic Championships, which is one of the most important tasks of ASA.
During the First International Conference Strategies toward Green Deal Implementation -Water and Raw Materials (ICGreenDeal2020), held on 14-16 December 2020, PhD student MEHDI SHARIF SHOURJEH together with the team of the Department of Sanitary Engineering, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, GUT, headed by Prof.
Michał Czubenko, PhD has been awarded 1st prize in the Ministry of Defence competition for the Best Doctoral Dissertation in the field of Space and Satellite Technologies, Techniques and Engineering and Autonomous Systems, (cat. IV - doctoral dissertations). Warsaw, 16 December 2020 for the thesis entitled. "Anthropoid model of intelligent decision-making system for autonomous units" under the direction of Professor Z. Kowalczuk from the Gdansk University of Technology. Congratulations!
The Daniel Fahrenheit Association of Universities in Gdańsk was appointed at the joint request of the rectors of the Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk University of Technology and the University of Gdańsk. The university senates adopted appropriate resolutions and approved the content of the Association's statute, and its creation was approved by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.
