Business - Innovations - Technology (BIT of WUT)

The Enactus team at the Warsaw University of Technology has once again emerged as the best in the national final of the Enactus Cup. The team, with its EnergyScope project, outperformed its rivals and will represent our University at the global final, which will take place in mid-November in São Paulo, Brazil.

Students from Warsaw University of Technology took part in the final of one of the world’s most prestigious robotics competitions – University Rover Challenge 2026, held in the United States. KNR Rover Team took 9^th place overall with a score of 275 points, becoming the highest-ranked team from Europe competing in URC 2026.

Two students from the Faculty of Chemistry at the Warsaw University of Technology will soon begin prestigious research internships in the United States as part of the BioLAB programme, carried out under the patronage of the Fulbright Foundation. Over the next year, Daria Majewska and Wiktoria Trynkos will conduct scientific research at renowned American academic and research institutions.

Students working in the Rocket Section design and test rocket systems and propulsion technologies. The team is currently focusing on preparing publications, including for the PAC 2026 conference, as well as on preparations for the FAR–OUT competition in the United States.

More than 15 million PLN from the European Funds for Mazovia programme will go to the Warsaw University of Technology. The funding will be allocated to the development and implementation of innovative technologies in the fields of aviation and printed electronics.

Students from the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology have won the Polish edition of Red Bull Basement 2026. The SwarmHub project, developed by Piotr Piwowarczyk and Michał Szajner, was recognised as the best in the country, giving its creators the opportunity to represent Poland at the world final in San Francisco.

The Drone Section operating within the Robotics Student Research Group at the Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering of Warsaw University of Technology has been active since 2023 and has quickly built a strong interdisciplinary team of around 30 members.

Students from the Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science of WUT made a strong impact at this year’s edition of the global StarkHacks hackathon in the US. The HardCounter team consisted of Piotr Czechowski, Svetlana Gridina, Mateusz Błażejowski and Denis Lisovytskiy, while the CompMech team was formed by Aleksander Jeżowski and Rafał Lasota. HardCounter won 1st place in the main Microsoft track, AI & Automation, and 2nd place in the Best Use of Viam category for the project “RackMedic” (DataCenter Automata). CompMech took 2nd place in the Ford track with their project “Zero Depth”.

Representatives of the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Warsaw University of Technology dominated the prestigious engineering competition “Hall of The Year”, organised by the Czech Technical University (ČVUT) in Prague. Our students took first and second place in the academic category, demonstrating outstanding precision in the design and optimisation of lightweight timber structures.

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to generate data for training subsequent, more advanced models. They can learn from one another through hidden signal transfer, but they can also pass on undesirable features that persist even when the training data has been cleaned of the original attribute. These issues are the focus of the co‑authors of a paper published in Nature, including Anna Sztyber‑Betley, PhD, from the Faculty of Mechatronics of the Warsaw University of Technology.

How can the high effectiveness of industrial oil additives be combined with environmental responsibility? This question is addressed in the research of Dr Sabina Wilkanowicz, conducted at the interface of science and industry. The author, affiliated with the Płock Branch of the Warsaw University of Technology, and the company Pachemtech, has developed and tested environmentally-friendly additives for crude oil extraction that not only effectively separate oil-water emulsions but also reduce corrosion and meet environmental requirements for particularly sensitive areas such as marine waters.

The product, developed as part of a research and development project carried out by the Central Institute for Labour Protection – National Research Institute (CIOP PIB) in cooperation with the Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering of the Warsaw University of Technology and the companies Gloves Technologies and Andropol SA, was awarded the MTP SAWO 2026 Gold Medal. The solution also received the Grand Prix of the Chief Commander of the State Fire Service.

Research on porphyrin derivatives is opening new perspectives in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. The project carried out by researchers from the Faculty of Chemistry at the Warsaw University of Technology, implemented under the National Science Centre SONATA 19 competition, focuses on the synthesis of hybrid porphyrin–sugar glycoconjugates. These compounds may combine the ability of porphyrins to generate reactive oxygen species with improved solubility and increased biological selectivity.

Our graduate, Piotr Falkowski, PhD, is developing two projects aimed at facilitating remote rehabilitation for patients. The initial idea for creating rehabilitation robots grew out of his industrial PhD carried out at the Warsaw University of Technology in cooperation with the Łukasiewicz Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurements. Recently, both tools have received awards and have been presented at international exhibitions.

The scope of activity of the ReWaTer-X student research group covers topics in chemistry and environmental chemistry, with particular focus on chemical methods of industrial wastewater treatment. The idea for establishing ReWaTer-X emerged during research work carried out within an international team involving students from the Faculty of Environmental Engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology and the Technical University of Madrid.

A team representing the Astronautical Student Research Group of the Warsaw University of Technology has qualified for the international CanSat competition, organized in the United States by the American Astronautical Society (AAS). The initiative is supported by NASA and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. The project is carried out by students from three faculties: Power and Aeronautical Engineering, Electronics and Information Technology, and Mechatronics.

At the intersection of science and cutting-edge technology, NeuroNavi Systems has been established as a spin-off of Warsaw University of Technology. Its mission is to develop autonomous inertial navigation systems resistant to interference and spoofed satellite navigation signals.

The Warsaw University of Technology’s Centre for Advanced Materials and Technologies (CEZAMAT) and CEA‑Leti – one of Europe’s leading research institutes in micro‑ and nanoelectronics – have signed a cooperation agreement. This partnership marks a concrete step toward developing cutting‑edge technologies and strengthening Europe’s technological sovereignty.

A new method for controlling heat flow is being researched at the Warsaw University of Technology. The project entitled ‘Two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures with asymmetric heat transport’ is being carried out by a team from the Faculty of Physics, led by Prof. Mariusz Zdrojek. The project was awarded funding under the OPUS 29 competition of the National Science Centre (NCN), receiving a grant of PLN 2,331,500.

The Civil Security Hub Poland initiative is a unique combination of satellite technologies, unmanned systems, and advanced data analytics, setting new standards in the field of civil security.

The project entitled “Fire safety system for a home electrical energy storage system” has received funding under the European Funds for a Modern Economy (FENG) 2021–2027 programme. The project was rated the highest on merit among 400 submissions and ranked first in the competition organised by the National Centre for Research and Development (NCBR).

A paper by the 4D Nucleome (4DN) consortium has been published in Nature, presenting an integrated atlas of the human “4D nucleome” – that is, the dynamic, three-dimensional organisation of the genome within the cell nucleus and its relationship to function. The publication’s co-authors include Prof. Dariusz Plewczyński, Mateusz Chiliński, PhD, and Kaustav Sengupta, PhD – researchers affiliated with SFGLab (Plewczynski Lab) operating at the Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science of the Warsaw University of Technology and at the Centre of New Technologies of the University of Warsaw.

Anna Sztyber‑Betley PhD from the Institute of Automatics and Robotics at the Faculty of Mechatronics of Warsaw University of Technology is the co‑author of two publications released in the prestigious journal Nature. The first paper concerns the phenomenon of emergent misalignment in large language models, while the second publication focuses on tools that enable a reliable assessment of the real competencies of artificial intelligence systems.

Bacterial infections and the growing resistance to antibiotics are among the most serious challenges facing modern medicine. Researchers at Warsaw University of Technology have decided to take on this problem.

On 5–6 March 2026, the inaugural meeting for the international ECLECTICCE project – Enhancing CCI skills and knowledge in Advanced Technologies for more competitive and inclusive products and services – took place in Padua, Italy. The initiative, funded under the Interreg Central Europe 2021–2027 Programme, focused on strengthening technological competencies within the cultural and creative industries. One of the project partners is Warsaw University of Technology.