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Among 176 recipients of the Bekker scholarships, selected from 507 candidates, there are two scientists from the Faculty of Chemical Technology of the Poznan University of Technology.

Wojciech Smułek, PhD will spend a seven-month internship in Denmark at Copenhagen University. In the team of prof. Anette Müllertz, he will conduct research on the use of plant surfactants in the creation of nanoemulsions allowing for effective delivery of antibiotics to sites of bacterial infection.

VW Caddy will be equipped with environmental perception systems, which will allow to increase the scale of research conducted at the university. The official handing-over of the vehicle was held today in the presence of Claudia Wintgen - Director of the Project, Technology and Commissioning, representing Volkswagen Poznan sp. z o.o.

We invite you to watch the Christmas movie of the Poznań University of Technology.

The ranking includes 450 best universities from Central - Eastern Europe and Central Asia, including 27 universities from Poland. The ranking created by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) is constructed using 10 indicators, including faculty expertise, international student ratios, and academic and employer reputation. In the summary table, the Poznan University of Technology was placed on 85th position, gaining the highest score for the indicator "Web Impact". The university was ranked 25th in the overall ranking and 7th among Polish universities.

The winner of the competition, organised by Siemens as part of a workshop of the same name, is a student of the Faculty of Automatic Control, Robotics and Electrical Engineering. The topic of the assignment was "How technologies can help maintain the well-being of the planet".

On December 9, 2021, in Warsaw, Ignacy Góra, the President of the Office of Rail Transport, presented the awards and distinctions during the 5th Safety Culture Gala. In the 5th edition of the competition, the award was given to, among others Faculty of Civil and Transport Engineering of the Poznan University of Technology and Jakub Holcman for the thesis "Improving the level of safety at railroad crossings with the use of radar occupancy system" carried out under the supervision of prof. Wojciech Sawczuk.

Prof. Agnieszka Ławrynowicz was nominated for the Scientist of the Future 2022 award in the category: Research of the Future for the implementation of the project entitled "Development of a Technology based on Artificial Intelligence for inferring SubsTitutable recipe Ingredients".