Events

Erasmus+ Programme GIENAHS project ("Grasping Innovation in Europe through a closer iNterAction between HEIs and SMEs") conducted at Warsaw University of Technology in cooperation with 5 other European Universities and 4 small and medium enterprises (SMEs), led by Uni.versus CSEI (Bari, Italy) has reached another milestone. Researchers of Warsaw University of Technology in cooperation with Exquisite SRL (Romanian company) led wide-range survey among SMEs in 6 European countries (Greece, Italy, Poland, Romania, Sweden, United Kingdom). The main aim was to determine the innovation introduction processes at SMEs and what are the needs for making it faster and easier. The responses were analyzed and the results were used to form the list of skills/knowledge required by SMEs when hiring R&D manager that would organize work and funding for their future innovations. Such list would be the key list to form European PhD curriculum that would train such future R&D managers specifically for the SMEs sector. Click "more" to see the detailed findings.

A new European project has been launched to design an innovative high-energy and safe, solid-state lithium-ion battery cell for the electric vehicle market and beyond. The EU-funded project, named ASTRABAT, aims to develop optimal lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery solutions for the increasing demands of the electric vehicle market in particular. The goal is to fulfil Europe’s need for a safe, high-energy, sustainable and marketable battery for green mobility that could be manufactured in Europe on a massive scale. As society turns to electric vehicles, this challenge has now become acute, with Asian competitors well ahead in the game.

Led by France's CEA, the 4-year project will focus on developing a better, safe and environmental-friendly cell architecture. This will come with an all solid-state electrolyte design suited to the new high-energy electrode materials and compatible with current mass-production processes.

Leszek Niedzicki, PhD, DSc, Eng. of PIRG group, Faculty of Chemistry leads the WUT team participating in the project. Main role of WUT group is synthesis of the key electrolyte ingredients - proprietary lithium salts and plasticizers.

In December 2018 the Battery Materials Platform has been officially established at the Faculty of Chemistry, Warsaw University of Technology. Platform inlcudes researchers from most of the Faculty's Chairs and Departments. Platform's aim is to integrate all scientists working on materials, research methods and processes related to energy storage devices in order to stregthen and encourage cooperation and as a result achieve synergy.

The list of scientists includes members of seven Faculty's units and out of multiple research groups. Full list is available below:

On 19-20 September 2019, GIENAHS Alliance meeting has been held at Warsaw University of Technology.

First main topic of the meeting was discussion on law and program harmonization of Industrial PhD studies on the EU level as well as possible changes to programs for better suitability of Industrial PhD Studies for small and medium enterprizes need.

Second main topic of the meeting was dedicated to discussion of the results, summary and conclusions of the international survey performed by consortium in six countries that investigated SMEs needs from potential employees of R&D departments that are alumni of PhD studies.

The meeting passed in great atmosphere.

GIENAHS Alliance aims at addressing the strategic issue of interaction between HEIs and the particular target represented by SMEs. Alliance aim is to design a new model of European Industrial PhD curriculum SME-oriented targeted on European SMEs Innovation needs.

The workshop is designed particularly for PhD and master students who would like to get theoretical and practical introduction into modern quantum chemistry and molecular modelling. Senior scientists can also benefit from the workshop as the presented state-of-the-art methods can be directly applied in many fields of chemistry. Moreover, participants will learn on one hand side what type of scientific questions can be readily answered by simple calculations and, on the second, hand how to identify problems that would require more elaborate treatment.

We present you an international promotional clip for Warsaw University of Technology.
Clip can be watched here.

On November 12th to November 22nd, 2015, prof. Mikołaj Szafran, PhD, DSc, Eng., Head of the Department of Chemical Technology has been a visiting professor upon an invitation from the Northwestern Polytechnical University w Xi`an (Chiny). During the visit, he gave 5 lectures on advanced ceramic materials design and synthesis and signed the cooperation agreement on science cooperation as well as researchers, PhD students and students exchanges between the Faculty of Chemistry of WUT and the School of Materials Science and Engineering of NWPU. On the photo prof. Hejun Li, PhD, the Dean of School of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern Polytechnical University (Xi’an, China), signs the cooperation agreement in the presence of prof. Mikołaj Szafran.

On May 14th, 2014 the partnership agreement has been signed between 43 corporate, academic (including Warsaw University of Technology), research & development and local authorities officials. As a result, Mazovian Chemical Cluster has started up, beginning of which has been supported from the start by Faculty of Chemistry of Warsaw University of Technology.
We invite everyone to get to know the mission and strategy of the Cluster: www.klasterchemiczny.com
Everyone interested in a cooperation with Mazovian Chemical Cluster should contact Jolanta Mierzejewska, PhD (ZTiBŚL, jmierzejewska@ch.pw.edu.pl).

With a real pleasure we announce, that Prof. Karol Grela, PhD, DSc of the University of Warsaw's Chemical Faculty and of Institute of Organic Chemistry PAS, our faculty graduate (graduated in 1994), was awarded with this year's Foundation for the Polish Science Prize, also called the "Polish Nobel Prize".