Lodz University of Technology is located in Lodz, Poland. It has over 20,000 students and offers 37 fields of study, including 13 in English and French. The university has two campuses and has received awards for its internationalization efforts like the Erasmus program. It has partnerships with universities around the world, including double degree programs with China and Ukraine. International student exchanges are promoted through Erasmus coordinators at each faculty to encourage balanced mobility across the university.
1. Lodz University of Technology
Lodz www.p.lodz.pl
University
of
Technology
Presentation prepared by: Beata Ogrodowczyk
International Student Exchange Office
2. Lodz University of Technology
www.p.lodz.pl
Structure of the presenation
•Where is Lodz?
•TUL overview
•Educational offer
•Erasmus exchange and international cooperation
•What is special
•A few words about HEI-ON project team
3. Lodz
University Lodz University of Technology
of
Technology
Poland is in the EU since
2004
Population of the country-
38 million people.
TUL is located in Lodz,
one of the biggest cities
4. Lodz
University A few facts about Lodz
of
Technology
nd citizens
Lodz has 742thousa
ed in 1423 Lodz in Numbers
The city was establish
textile industry
Lodz de veloped as a town of iversities
tre with 6 public Un
ic Cen
Lodz is a Polish Academ
How can I spend my free time in Lodz?
Lodz is the city of festivals (Design, Film, Fashion)
Lodz Airport has connections with main European
cities (e.g. London, Edynburgh or Milan)
Why Lodz is special?
Cost of a dormito
ry is around 90 euro pe
The price of a be r month
er in a pub is 2 euro
Overall cost of liv
ing in Lodz is around 30
0 euro
5. Lodz
University
of
Lodz University of Technology
Technology
67 years ago…
525 students
3 faculties
33 departments
… and today
over 20 000 students
633 PhD students
over 1 500 academic staff
9 faculties
37 fields of study/ 13 fields of studies in English and French
Children University of Lodz/ Secondary School/ University of the Silver Age
8. Rector’s office is situated in the villa intially belonged to Reinhold
Richter, a factory owner of middling wealth.
9. Lodz
University
of
Awards/Rankings
Technology
PROStudent University 2011
awarded by the Student Parliament of Republic of Poland
Mobility Friendly University
awarded by the Polish Erasmus National Agency in 2008 for 6 Polish Universities
Ranked-top
Ranked 4 out of 23 universities of technology in Poland and
8 out of 88 Polish academic institutions (the Perspektywy Magazine- University
Ranking 2012)
Innovative
2nd University in Poland regarding the number of approved patents per
University staff
The only Polish University member in the European Consortium of Innovative
Universities
10. International Faculty of Engineering (IFE)
Lodz
University
of
Technology
1000 students/
300 Erasmus students (France, Spain, Portugal, Turkey and many others)
International teams
Combines engineering with management
Individual attitude towards every student
Window semester
Problem Based Learning and European Project Semester classes
11. International programmes
Lodz
University
of
Technology
International Faculty of Engineering (IFE)
The main objective of the faculty is to educate professional engineers and managers, fluent in
foreign languages and able to demonstrate their knowledge in science, engineering, technology and
business. Achieving this goal has been confirmed by the employment rate of the IFE graduates,
which is one of the highest among the graduates of technical universities in Poland. At present there
are over 1000 students at the faculty.
Programmes taught in English and French:
Architecture Engineering (Bsc)
Biomedical Engineering (Bsc)
Biotechnology (Bsc, Msc)
Business and Technology (Bsc)
Computer Science (Bsc)
Information Technology (Bsc, Msc)
Management (Msc)
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Computer Science (Bsc)
Mechatronics (Msc)
Telecommunications and Computer Science (Bsc)
Teleinformatics (Msc)
Science and Technology (Bsc)
Gestion et Technologie (Bsc in French)
13. Lodz
University
of
Technology
Exchange – Erasmus and Campus Europae
Balanced mobility
Mobility Week
Erasmus Promoters
at Faculties
Student Assistance Office
(SAO)
ESN-EYE – Super Star 2009
in Europe
The only Polish technical
University in the Campus
Europae Programme
14. Lodz
University
of
Technology
Exchange – Erasmus and Campus Europae
MOBILITY PROMOTERS TEAM
students representing all faculties
Face to face:
- promotion – presentations at faculties
- participation in Mobility Week
•- work in Student Assistance Office
- Students become active after Erasmus or active students go for
Erasmus
•Active students promote mobility
•Active students achieve success
15. Lodz
University
of
International cooperation
Technology
Cooperation with China: double diploma agreement with Minzu University
in Bejing
Cooperation with Ukraine: double diploma agreement between TUL
and Karazin Kharkiv National University (BA in Management)
11 agreements with Ukrainian Universities
26 study tuition-free places for the best foreign students
TUL’s website in Chinese, Russian, Ukrainian for foreign candidates
Centre of the Baltic University in Poland
16. Lodz University of Technology- HEI ON
PROJECT TEAM
www.p.lodz.pl
Marcin Janicki – Assistant Professor at Department
of Microelectronics and Computer Science
1994 – studentship of French Government at Ecole
National Supérieure d'Electricite et Mécanique
in Nancy, France
1994 and 1999 PhD degrees in electronics from Technical
University of Lodz, Poland
1996 MA degree in finances and banking from University
of Lodz, Poland
1997/1998 - visiting PhD student at Strathclyde
University in Glasgow, Scotland
2000/2001 NATO Advanced Fellowship at University of
Ghent, Belgium
2007/2008 Lise Meitner fellowship at RICAM Institute of
Austrian Academy of Sciences in Linz, Austria
Since 1996 Campus Europae coordinator at Lodz
University of Technology
Research interests: thermal modelling of electronic
systems and inverse heat transfer problems
Contact details: janicki@dmcs.pl
17. Lodz University of Technology- HEI ON
PROJECT TEAM
www.p.lodz.pl
Agnieszka Michałowska-Dutkiewicz
Educational Affairs Department
•Responsible for Erasmus staff exchanges
•Responsible for Erasmus projects and Erasmus Mundus projects
•Former Erasmus Administrative Coordinator with the background in
International Relations Office,
•ECIU Local Coordinator (temporary responsibility)
MA in International Relations, University of Lodz
Erasmus at Universite Aix-Marseille I, France, in 1999
Contact details: agnieszka.michalowska-
dutkiewicz@p.lodz.pl
18. Lodz
University
of
International cooperation
Technology
Małgorzata Świt
swit@p.lodz.pl
in charge of
International Student Exchange Office
- outgoing students
- contracts
- promotion
19. Lodz University of Technology- HEI ON
PROJECT TEAM
www.p.lodz.pl
Beata Ogrodowczyk- Erasmus
Administrative Coordinator/ Student Abroad
Adviser:
•administering Erasmus exchange for placements
•advising Erasmus outgoing students
•promoting Erasmus opportunities and organizing events
to students and staff
•coordinating Erasmus Promoters Student Scheme
2nd prize in the Literary and Artistic Competition
organized within EEA/Norway grants
Postgraduate Studies in Public Relations, European
Union Funding
MA in International Relations, University of Lodz
in 2001
Erasmus at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela,
Spain in 1999
Contact details: beata.ogrodowczyk@p.lodz.pl
20. Thank you for your attention
agnieszka.michalowska-dutkiewicz@p.lodz.pl
Campus B