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Łódź: The Living Lab - Meeting with Jonathan Reichental, PhD

Venue: International Faculty of Engineering, prof. Jan Krysiński Auditorium
Address: 36 Zwirki st., building A16, 90-539 Lodz
Date: October 24, 2025 (Friday), 2:00 PM

Dear Lodz University of Technology Students!
Meet Jonathan Reichental, PhD at our premises, at IFE!

As one of the world’s top digital transformation leaders, Dr. Reichental helped make Palo Alto one of America’s most innovative and connected cities. His visionary work in smart cities, open data, and citizen engagement earned him global recognition, including the #1 Digital City Award (2013) and listings among the Top 100 CIOs worldwide.

He is the author of Smart Cities for Dummies (Wiley, 2020) — a global guide to building sustainable, tech-driven cities — and a frequent speaker at TEDx, Forbes, and The Wall Street Journal. As a lecturer at the University of San Francisco, UC Berkeley, and Pepperdine, he inspires future leaders to shape the cities of tomorrow.

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to meet a visionary who turns technology into real urban impact. Whether you’re studying engineering, IT, management, or urban design, you’ll discover how data, AI, and innovation can make our cities smarter — and our lives better.

Join us and be inspired by the future of smart cities!

Registration needed: https://forms.office.com/e/XMmbQdJX3R

This event is for people aged 18+. Entry is for registered participants only. The event will be held in English.

After the success of its first edition, the Mobility Picnic is coming back to Lodz University of Technology! This year, the vibrant open-air event will once again take place in the heart of the TUL campus – Klepacz Park. Organized by the International Cooperation Centre, the event continues the spirit of Mobility Week and promotes international exchange opportunities, with Erasmus+ leading the way.

The event promises an exciting lineup: mobility info booths, global cuisine prepared by international students, food trucks, yoga on the lawn, games, performances, fun activities, and a chill-out zone. It’s an invitation to the entire academic community and anyone interested in international education and cultural exchange.

Mobility Picnic proves that university life is about more than lectures – it’s about openness, connection, and celebrating diversity together.

Klepacz Park, TUL Campus
June 4, 2025, 10:30 AM-2:30 PM
 

Feel invited!
 

The Programme is implemented by Lodz University of Technology under the agreement with the National Agency for Academic Exchange and is financed from the European Union funds as part of the NAWA project entitled “Short-term academic exchange as a way to improve the quality of education at institutions of higher education and science” with the number FERS.01.05-IP.08-0218/23.

Project objectives:

• development of the internationalization of TUL through the implementation of short-term scholarship exchange of doctoral students and academic teachers
• increase in the number of completed outgoing and incoming mobilities
• acquisition of competencies by participants
• increase in the quality of education at the university.

Number of mobilities available: 100, including:

• 60 outgoing mobilities, including doctoral students (50) and academic teachers (10) of TUL to foreign institutions, and
• 40 incoming mobilities, including doctoral students (35) and academic teachers (5) from foreign institutions to TUL.

Mobility implementation period: until September 30th, 2025. 

Destination/home countries: the whole world

Financing for the participant:

• travel costs from 1.000 to 6.500 PLN
• subsistence and accommodation costs from 1.500 to 18.000 PLN
• scholarship from 625 to 7.500 PLN
• conference fee (optional)

Apply today!

Step 1 - Read the Regulations for participation in the project, including the appendixes:

• List of available mobilities
• Travel, subsistence and accommodation costs and amount of scholarships
• Recruitment schedule
• Mobility Funding Application of a Doctoral Student
• Mobility Funding Application of an Academic Teacher
• Application Assessment Form for a Doctoral Student
• Application Assessment Form for an Academic Teacher
• Data form for the Agreement
• Agreement template
• Appendix 1 to the Agreement – Certificate template pl and en
• Appendix 2 to the Agreement – Financial settlement of the mobility
• Project Participant form
• Competency Assessment Form of the Project Participant

Step 2 - Plan your mobility

Step 3 - Fill in the Application Form

Step 4 - Send a set of documents to the Project Office at the following address: promobility-outgoing@info.p.lodz.pl – outgoing mobilities from TUL, promobility-incoming@info.p.lodz.pl – incoming mobilities to TUL

Deadline for applications: December 15th, 2024.

We invite all IFE students for the information meeting concerning the obligatory mobility within Erasmus+ programme !

We will present rules for recruitment and application to partner universities.

The meeting wil take place on 6 March (Wednesday) at 2pm. in IFE AULA, building A16.

Your attendance is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED - see you there !!!

TUL Student Mobility Division

In the event of a decision to interrupt the stay at a foreign higher education institution, the student shall be obliged to send a statement on the interruption of his/her stay with a justification to erasmus@info.p.lodz.pl and to submit the documents referred to below, section 4, which are necessary to accept the costs incurred until the interruption of his/her stay. 3. in addition, the student is obliged to fulfil reporting obligations resulting from agreements

Read the whole Announcement of the Vice-Rector for Education on the mobility of foreign and Polish students on student exchange in the face of the SARS-CoV-2 virus threat.

Due to the increased epidemiological risk and suspension of classes at Lodz University of Technology starting from March 12, 2020, we would like to convey the following:

1. the office hours of offices serving IFE students are subject to change. The offices will be open according to the following schedule:

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 9:00 - 11:00, Wednesday - Offices are closed;

2. in order to deal with all students matters it is recommended to contact us by phone or email;

3. please send all application forms by email;

4. electronic student ID cards will be valid without having to extend their validity at dean's offices. Within a few days, a regulation of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education will be issued, which will extend the validity of the electronic student ID cards until May 31, 2020;

5. persons who returned from a foreign country (including private trips) may enter Lodz University of Technology premise only after completing a minimum of 14-day quarantine;

6. students who are undergoing student exchange may at any time decide to stay at the host university in accordance with its recommendations or return to Poland in order to continue studying at Lodz Univeristy of Technology and join the ongoing classes;

7. all forms of student mobility (studying abroad and internships) are suspended until further notice;

8. further decisions regarding solutions related to the prevention and eradication of COVID-19 at the Lodz University of Technology will be forwarded in the form of Communications from the Rector of the Lodz University of Technology. Please check your student mail regularly and follow the information on the website.

Please get acquainted with the Announcement No. 1/2020 of Rector of Lodz University of Technology of 11 March 2020 issued on the basis of Ordinance No 21/2020 of Rector of Lodz University of Technology of 9 March 2020 on specific arrangements related to prevention, counteraction and combat of COVID-19 at Lodz University of Technology attached below.

ECIU University strives to enhance and facilitate joint funding proposals from different ECIU institutions, creating strong consortia to achieve results that have an impact on European society.

Writing a successful Erasmus+ funding proposal does not only require careful planning and attention to the call and application form details, but it also needs to take into account the way the evaluators will “scan” your proposal and the answers to the evaluation questions they will search in its paragraphs.

Get some useful suggestions during your lunch with some presentations from Erasmus+ evaluators! Let’s meet and discuss with them, let’s be inspired to make ECIU proposals more convincing!

Helene Elvstrand from LiU will guide us through the evaluation criterion Relevance and quality. 
Anne Louise Rowan from DCU will share her insights on centralised actions (i.e., Alliances for Innovation) and how to develop convincing quality and impact sessions.

 We hope you can join us on Wednesday 10th of December 2025 12.00 - 13.00 CET. Here is the link to connect! 

The latest results of the European Engineering Studies Ranking – EngiRank 2025 – have been published. The podium was taken by: Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Delft University of Technology, and KU Leuven – leaders in innovation and research in Europe. Five Polish technical universities made it into the top 100, with AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków ranking highest in the country (50th place).

The EngiRank 2025 results were officially announced on December 1 in Brussels during the seminar “Engineering for Security: Universities and Industry in Service of Defense”, attended by rectors of leading European universities and representatives of major defense companies such as Patria, Leonardo, PGZ, Rheinmetall, Safran Group, and Rolls-Royce. Among the panelists was Prof. Krzysztof Jóźwik – Rector of Lodz University of Technology – representing our university in a discussion on the role of engineering in Europe’s security.

In addition to the overall classification, subject-specific rankings were also published, covering the main engineering disciplines. Lodz University of Technology was ranked in all seven categories. It performed best in Chemical Engineering, taking 3rd place in Poland and 77th in Europe. In Mechanical Engineering, it ranked 5th nationally and 131st in Europe. In three categories, it placed 6th in Poland: Electrical, Electronic & Information Engineering (EEI) – 110th in Europe; Materials Engineering – 153rd; and Medical Engineering – 116th. In Civil Engineering (126th in Europe) and Environmental Engineering (180th in Europe), it ranked 9th nationally.

The EngiRank ranking is fully transparent and based exclusively on external data. It considers not only publications and citations but also cooperation with industry, patents, participation in EU programs (Horizon Europe, Erasmus+), engineering accreditations (ENAEE, ABET), and contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals. Thanks to this, it is a reliable tool for prospective students and employers, showcasing the real potential of universities.

EngiRank 2025 was developed for the third time by the Educational Foundation Perspektywy – a leader in educational rankings in Poland. Data for the ranking comes from the Scopus Elsevier database, the European Patent Office PATSTAT, Horizon Europe, and organizations accrediting engineering studies (ABET, ENAEE).

More information

The day will be full of contests with prizes and Q&A about mobility. Our office will be open all day!

Thanks to the allocated funds of over EUR 240,000, it will be possible to carry out exchanges with partner universities in 16 countries. The project includes institutions from Argentina, Honduras, India, Japan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, El Salvador, South Africa, Ukraine, the United States and Uzbekistan. Newly established partnerships include universities from Ethiopia, Taiwan, Oman, Papua New Guinea and Nigeria.

Under the project, students and doctoral candidates may spend one semester studying at a selected partner university. Academic and administrative staff are offered one-week teaching or training mobility opportunities. These mobilities provide an excellent chance to share experiences, build valuable relationships and strengthen international cooperation. The bilateral nature of the programme also makes it possible to invite distinguished academics to deliver lectures, workshops or training sessions using modern educational methods.

Currently Erasmus+ KA171 projects with non-EU countries launched under the 2023 and 2024 calls are also underway. The mobility activities completed so far have contributed to the development of educational and research collaboration, as well as the implementation of joint initiatives with academic institutions in partner countries.

We hope that the new edition of the Erasmus+ programme for 2025–2028 will bring many international initiatives.