On July 18-21, 2024, Gdynia once again became the capital of sailing and yachting, hosting one of the most important industry events in Poland - PolBoat Yachting Festival. This event, gaining prestige and popularity year by year, attracted both sailing enthusiasts and professionals from all over the world. This year's edition was special, offering participants not only a wide range of attractions and market novelties but also the opportunity to see premiere vessels in virtually every category and innovative technological solutions. 

The Polish Research Infrastructure Map, which includes 70 advanced projects from various fields of science, has gained new advisors. Prof. Paweł Śniatała, is the chairman, and prof. Mikołaj Morzy, is responsible for the coordination and development of these projects. Their involvement will allow for the optimisation of the research infrastructure in Poland and create better conditions for conducting scientific research at the highest world level.

The Polish Research Infrastructure Map contains information on 70 research projects divided into 6 areas:

On Friday, July 19, 2024, Minister of Economic Development and Technology Krzysztof Paszyk visited the Kakolewo Campus of the Poznan University of Technology.

Five projects were implemented at the Kakolewo Campus: "Aerosphere. Airport of Things", "Space Robots Testing Centre", "Aerosphere 2.0 Aerospace Data Transmission (POLYITAN)", "Aerosphere 2.0 Satellite Objects Observation, Supervision and Tracking Station", "Imaging of the Earth's Surface"

Second edition of the EUNICE Imagine Innovation Cup - summary

The EUNICE Imagine Innovation Cup is a competition for the best start-up concept involving students from various EUNICE partner universities. This year we completed the second edition of this event. The first stage of the competition took place locally at each of the partner universities, with the final event taking place in beautiful Santander, Spain.

We are pleased to announce that prof. Roman Słowiński was unanimously admitted to the Academy of Sciences of the Bologna Institute as a Foreign Corresponding Member.

Congratulations! 

As part of the "Digitalization in mechanical engineering" project, six scientists were able to actively participate in the 3rd International Scientific-Technical Conference ICIE'2024, which took place on June 26-28, 2024 in Lagoa, on the island of São Miguel in Portugal. During the conference, scientists from the Poznan University of Technology and Sumy State University presented the results of their research, which were published by Springer in the following articles:

QS World University Rankings Europe is a regional ranking presenting the best universities in Europe. The ranking included 684 scientific institutions, including 32 universities from Poland.

In the national classification, the Poznan University of Technology maintained its position from a year ago and ranks 15th among Polish universities and 7th among Polish technical universities.

The ranking was based on 12 indicators, of which the highest importance is given to the university's reputation among academic staff (data from the annual QS Academic Reputation Survey).

On July 12th, Poznan University of Technology hosted a Korean delegation, accompanied by Ph.D., D.Sc., Eng. Leszek Cwojdziński, Major General  Pilot. The Vice-Rector for Research, Professor Wojciech Sumelka, met with Billy Boo Hwan Lee, President of Hanwha Aerospace Europe, Min Won Park, President of Changwon National University, Jongkyu Park, Vice-Rector, and Haesung Jung, Head of the Educational Center. The delegation also included Myoung Rae Cho, Deputy Mayor of Changwon, along with Goo Jong Kang, Head of the Planning Policy Department.

At the beginning of July, the finals of the "Seeds for the Future" competition took place in Rome. The aim of this competition is to promote students who have interesting ideas for solving important social problems using Huawei technology. 145 students from 23 European countries took part in the final, including 10 students from Poland (3 from our university), whose applications in the recruitment process stood out among the remaining several hundred candidates. The students were divided into teams of several people.

In the most recent edition of the U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking, 2,250 top universities from around the world were selected based on indicators grouped into three categories: global and regional academic reputation, bibliometric indicators from the Web of Science database (Clarivate), and scientific excellence. In the national classification, the Poznan University of Technology claimed the 21st spot, including the 6th place in the category of Polish technical universities.