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The two universities aim to strengthen their cooperation by combining their expertise and experience even more closely than before. This integration of their potential is intended to lay the foundations for future federation and to build the position of a regional leader in the field of Engineering – Medicine – Society. The agreement was signed by WUT Rector Prof. Krzysztof Zaremba and MUW Rector Prof. Rafał Krenke.

Representatives of Japan’s High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) visited the National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ) in Świerk and the Warsaw University of Technology. During their visit, they learned about the progress of work on equipment for the Hyper-Kamiokande experiment and plans for its production.

2026 season review

Students from the WUT Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science took part in the IJCAI-ECAI 2026 conference in Bremen. It is one of the world’s leading events in artificial intelligence and holds the highest scientific ranking, A*. At the conference, our team presented a project that uses retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).

A team led by Tomasz Gradowski, PhD, from the WUT Faculty of Physics has developed a new way of presenting ECG recordings. The results of the research have been published in the journal ‘Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine’.

Grigorii Chernyshov completes an internship

Have you ever wondered how members of the Warsaw University of Technology community spent their summer? Meet Maciej Lato, one of our doctoral students, who used his free time to compete in the Royal Ocean Racing Club Round Britain and Ireland Race, covering 2,168 nautical miles in 14 days, 20 hours and 17 minutes.

A new game set in Warsaw has appeared on Fortnite, one of the world’s largest gaming platforms. In ‘The Basilisk: Roguelike Hunt in Warsaw’, players set out in pursuit of the legendary Basilisk. One of the quests takes place in interiors inspired by our University’s Main Building.

Can you explain your research in just a few minutes? That's the challenge facing contestants in Three Minute Thesis® (3MT®), one of the world's leading science communication competitions. This year marks the third edition of the competition at Warsaw University of Technology, and for the first time we're joining forces with the Medical University of Warsaw. More disciplines, more groundbreaking research, more excitement. What's in store this year?

Members of the Digital Construction Student Research Group - Karolina Drabik, Jakub Sitnik, Do Trong Hinh and Filip Ćwik - together with the group’s supervisor, Kostiantyn Protchenko, PhD, took part in The BIM Challenge conference in Constanța, Romania. They returned with valuable experience and awards from the design competition.

Julia Robak, a student at the Faculty of Architecture of the Warsaw University of Technology, cycled from Poland to Morocco, raising more than PLN 12,000 for the Cancer Fighters Foundation. Her expedition lasted 43 days and covered nearly 4,000 kilometres.

For aspiring physicists, the summer break is an opportunity to gain experience at the world’s leading research centres. In recent months, a team from the WUT Faculty of Physics spent time at several such centres, including GSI/FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research) in Darmstadt, where they worked on experiments investigating the properties of nuclear matter under extreme conditions.

1 October at 10:00 a.m. in the WUT Main Building

Two WUT teams in the final

A new Centre of Excellence for energy-efficient anti-icing technologies will be established at the Warsaw University of Technology. The NEXUS project, in which WUT is a consortium partner, has received funding under the HORIZON-WIDERA-2026-02-WIDENING-01 (Twinning) call of the Horizon Europe programme.

Warsaw University of Technology leads the consortium

As Confucius, the great Chinese thinker, once said, “it is a pleasure to learn and to apply what one has learned at the right time.” This year, once again, it will be possible to see how knowledge translates into practice, and how the hours students spend working on projects turn into results and achievements that influence our surroundings and everyday lives. On 7 and 8 October, the 23^rd Fair of Student Research Groups “KONIK” will take place, and we warmly invite you to attend.

The Polish Research Infrastructure Map is a collection of key laboratories, facilities, and research systems of national or international importance that demonstrate the highest level of scientific excellence. Six infrastructures from our University are included on the map. The map is maintained and updated by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

On 15 August 2026, Shanghai Ranking Consultancy presented the results of the latest edition of the prestigious Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), known as the Shanghai Ranking. The Warsaw University of Technology was ranked in the 901–1000 range (joint 4^th place in Poland), maintaining its position from last year.

Results of the 7^th edition of the Competition for the Prof. Jan Czochralski Award are now known. The laureates are representatives of Silesian University of Technology, Poznan University of Technology, and the Aleksander Krupkowski Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The competition recognizes the best diploma and doctoral theses, as well as outstanding scientific and/or applied achievements related to the fields of scientific and technical activity represented by the competition’s patron.

On August 3–7, the Institute of Heat Engineering at Warsaw University of Technology (WUT) hosted the 2nd edition of the nationwide Summer School of Nuclear Energy. The event was organized in cooperation with the Ministry of Energy, with its main theme focusing on the nuclear fuel cycle. 

Two researchers from Warsaw University of Technology (WUT) are among the laureates of the 10th edition of the SONATINA competition, organized by the National Science Centre (NCN). Together, they received over PLN 1.5 million to implement their research projects. The competition is targeted at early-career researchers starting their independent scientific paths. In this year's edition, funding totalling over PLN 60 million was awarded to 76 projects.

Warsaw University of Technology has secured nearly PLN 1 million in funding from the National Science Centre (NCN) under the OPUS competition to implement the research project "BIO-PIX: Biosensing with Photonic Integrated Circuits for Model Biomarker Detection in Inflammatory Pathways." By combining expertise in integrated photonics, fabrication technology, and molecular chemistry, the team aims to develop a new generation of highly sensitive photonic biosensors.

Members of two student research groups from Warsaw University of Technology—the Robotics Student Research Group (KNR) and the Absolute Edge Student Research Group—are preparing custom-designed unmanned aerial systems (UAS) to participate in the international Student Unmanned Aerial Systems (SUAS) competition in the United States. Both teams will represent our University, presenting distinct engineering approaches and their respective technological concepts to complete the competition tasks.

Our scientists checked where on Mars temperatures conducive to tree growth could appear earliest. Discover the results of simulations conducted jointly by researchers from WUT, NASA Ames Research Centre, San Jose State University, and the University of Basel.