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Christmas is coming! For years, we can’t imagine this season without the festive booths set up in the square in front of our Main Building. See you on 4 and 5 December, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Katarzyna Matys-Popielska, MSc, and Krzysztof Popielski, MSc, are taking part in the cotutelle PhD programme, which allows to prepare one doctoral dissertation under the supervision of an adviser from the Warsaw University of Technology and an auxiliary supervisor from a foreign partner institution, leading to the award of the doctoral degree at both units. What does it look like?

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).

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

At the beginning of 2025, the Student Research Group for Aerial Measurement and Control Systems was established at the Warsaw University of Technology. It operates at the Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering, under the academic supervision of Elżbieta Jarzębowska, PhD. Despite its short period of activity, the Group has already proven its ability to carry out ambitious research and engineering projects. Their work doesn't end in laboratories – it is tested in real, often extreme conditions.

Defining quality indicators for point clouds, simulating the operation of terrestrial laser scanners (TLS), and developing shared digital metrological tools – these are the main goals of the ScanClouDT project. The initiative brings together 15 institutions from across Europe, including our University.

Our young, talented researchers were unmatched in the national final of FameLab 2025! Natalia Izdebska took first place, and Bartłomiej Łuszczuk secured the second spot on the podium. Natalia will represent Poland in the FameLab International Final on 25 November at CERN in Geneva. 

Researchers from the Warsaw University of Technology are participating in OSTEOFUSE – a bilateral project aimed at producing personalised, commercially available spinal and cranio-maxillofacial (CMF) bone implants that combine surface-modification technology with 3D printing. The project has received funding under the VI Polish–Turkish Projects call and brings together four members: the Warsaw University of Technology and the company Stenocoat sp. z o.o. as the national consortium, and the company Trabtech and the University of Ankara as the Turkish consortium.

We are accepting applications for Master of Science (M.Sc.) programs

Our University has become a member of T.I.M.E. (Top International Managers in Engineering) – a network of leading technical universities and engineering schools. The application process was coordinated by the Centre for International Cooperation.

This year's "30 Under 30" list by Forbes includes individuals closely associated with the Warsaw University of Technology. Łucja Rugor, founder and CEO of the Kosmok startup, is a graduate of the Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering. Brothers Paweł Paczuski and Krzysztof Paczuski, co-founders of upmedic, are graduates of the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology. This is the ninth edition of the list under the slogan "Young Poles Conquering the World."

Our students in Enactus World Cup 2025 finals

On the first weekend of October, the HackYeah hackathon – the largest on-site event of its kind in Europe – took place at TAURON Arena Kraków. Our students Filip Kiernozek and Piotr Mackiewicz won in their category, while a team from the Kraken Student Research Group and an inter-university team including Adam Sulik from WUT both took second place in their respective challenges.

Our University has maintained its position in the 1201–1500 range among approximately 2,200 ranked institutions from over 100 countries and territories.

How can construction waste be transformed into high-value materials that can return to the market? This is the goal set by a research team led by Natalia Gasik-Kowalska, MSc, from the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Mechanics and Petrochemistry, which is conducting research on the development of new formulations of construction mortars in which traditional raw materials are replaced with recycled components.

A team led by Prof. Robert Nowak is implementing the DARTS-PL project, which aims to develop a national database of test scenarios for autonomous vehicles (AVs), taking into account road conditions characteristic of Poland. The project is being carried out by a research consortium consisting of the Motor Transport Institute (Leader) and the Institute of Computer Science at the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology as the leading academic partner.

The "Huber Squad" team, consisting of Łukasz Latoch, Jakub Kuliberda, and Mateusz Kuczek, won 3^rd place in the final of the 4^th edition of the nationwide engineering competition Symkaton 4.0. Additionally, the team also secured a special award for the best use of computer simulation software. All team members are students at the Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering of the Warsaw University of Technology.

On 7 October 2025, the official opening of the Centre for Credible Artificial Intelligence (CWSI) – a research unit whose mission is to develop methods enabling the creation of understandable, verifiable, and controllable AI systems – took place in the Main Building of the Warsaw University of Technology. The event gathered representatives of the scientific community, strategic partners, friends of the university, and guests from Poland and abroad.

Success of our students

Professor Ryszard Piramidowicz from the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology at the Warsaw University of Technology has become a laureate of the prestigious Photonics100 distinction awarded by Electro Optics magazine. The award recognizes leaders who set the directions for the development of photonics – innovators, visionaries, and exceptional personalities in the modern photonics R&D world.

The KNR Drone section is co-developing the project in collaboration with NASA