The laureates of this year’s Foundation of Polish Science Prize include Professor Wojciech Knap from the CENTERA Laboratory at the Warsaw University of Technology CEZAMAT. Professor Knap was awarded the prize in the area of mathematical, physical and engineering sciences. The FNP prize is regarded as the most important scientific distinction in Poland. It is the 34th edition of the awards.

Professor Mariusz Malinowski, WUT Vice-Rector for Research, was elected in general elections as member of the IEEE Board of Directors. IEEE is an association of technical specialists with 500,000 members in 167 countries. Professor Malinowski will represent Chapter 6 and his term of office will be two years.

The Combains team comprising Natalia Choszczyk, Mikołaj Rowicki and Filip Langiewicz has secured the title of an international winner in a global hackathon Bit n Build. All team members study at the Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science in the field of study Data Science. The competition task was to develop two projects that use AI.

Tomasz Olczak, student of the WUT Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology, was appointed as student expert of the Polish Accreditation Committee. Student experts, as members of the evaluation committees, participate in inspections of fields of study all over Poland, and after the inspections, they contribute to reports that are the basis of programme evaluation decisions.

Students of the Warsaw University of Technology received nearly PLN 1.3 million in the second call for the programme of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education “Support for Students in Developing Their Competences and Skills”. As a result, WUT took the second place in Poland in terms of total funding and third place in terms of the number of projects.

We now know the winners of this year’s global James Dyson Award. In the “Sustainability” category, the undisputed winner was WaterSense – a groundbreaking project aimed at developing and bringing to market an innovative system for monitoring water quality in Poland. The winners were personally selected by Sir James Dyson, and each of the two global winners will receive £30,000 for their invention. The WaterSense project involves researchers from three units of the Warsaw University of Technology: the Faculty of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, the Faculty of Chemistry, and CEZAMAT (Centre for Advanced Materials and Technologies).