Gdansk University of Technology

9 faculties
32 fields of study
3 MBA courses
7 types of doctoral studies
57 types of postgraduate studies
15 degree courses in English
27 000 students – 10 % more than in the previous year
100 000 graduates
1 200 academic staff members
280 cooperation agreements with fierign universaties and institutes
380 students a year travelling abroad to study or for internships
150 foreign students visit our University each year
200 academic staff travelling abroad to increase professional experience or give lectures
60 ha of university campus
4 700 computers with Internet access
2 700 places in 10 student hostels
1, 2 mln volumes in the university library
2nd in the country for the number of candidate students for every place (1)
4th with regard to the percentage of graduates holding CEO positions in Polish firms (2)

(1) Ministry of Science and Higher Education, 2011 statistics; (2) Rzeczpospolita newspaper, 25 October 2010

winning national and international competitions. Twice they have triumphed at the Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Czech Republic Automation Scholarship Competition
inspiring the Tri-City autorities with ideas that are frequently fully implemented, e.g. the Faculty of Architecture student’s design of bus shelters in Gdansk Letnica, the site of the Euro 2012 Baltic Arena Stadium
acquiring patents, e.g. for the PeltiCold portable refrigerating device designed by Faculty of Mechanical Engineering students, which may, for instance, serve as an open drinks bar
and constructing unconventional machines, e.g. SOLAR, the first fully ecological, solar powered boat in Poland

undertaking R&D initiatives. They have created the Pomeranian ICT Cluster, serving almost 50 the region’s telecommunications, IT and electronics companies as well as educational institutions and the Gdansk City authorities
working on projects of key national importance, e.g. by co-creating the European Road Safety Atlas
implementing inventions, e.g. available on the market since 2009: the LipMouse – allowing users to operate computers with just their lips and tongue; and the Smart Pen – a therapy enhancing tool in the treatment of dyslexia and dysgraphia
receiving awards for inventions at national and international fairs, collecting 19 awards at the Technicon Innowacje 2009 Fair and the gold medal from the 108th International Invention Exhibition Concours Lepine in Paris

building the PGE Arena, the Gdansk Euro 2012 stadium, whose design team members predominantly come from GUT and are headed by a graduate of the GUT Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering
designing the world famous IVONA speech synthesizer, which in 2006, 2007 and 2009 received the highest scores at the Blizzard Challenge in Edinburgh
setting up companies known in Poland and the world, e.g. realm of new technologies Young Digital Planet SA, the Wirtualna Polska (Virtual Poland) web portal or LPP SA, the owner of 6 popular clothing brands
having ideas worth milions! A milion dollars was won by the mechanics engineer Janusz Liberkowski at the ABC Television American Inventor competition for his Anecia Safety Capsule (a safer car seat), which gave him the title of the best inventor in the USA