Rector’s foreword

While celebrating the 65th anniversary of Gdansk University of Technology we do not forget about our intellectual heritage of Royal High Technical School (Königliche Technische Hochschule) the first academic school in Gdansk, founded in 1904. But it was the 22nd of November 1945 when the very first lecture in post-war history of GUT took place. Since that memorable day we continuously give world-class quality lectures and classes in our modern laboratories and lecture-halls.

Today, the Gdansk University of Technology is a large community with almost 1 200 academic teachers, more than 25 000 students, around 1 400 engineering, technical and administrative staff, and over 1 700 retired employees with whom the University remains in touch. Our community is therefore vibrant with life. The Gdansk University of Technology is highly regarded as an opinion‐forming centre and as the initiator, and reliable executor, of a wide range of undertakings as well as innovative tasks. Our success is measured by the great number of achievements in research, teaching and implementations.

I wish to render thanks to our great academic family: research workers, students, alumni, staff and friends - without their work and support, GUT would have never became such an open-minded and prospective University as it is today.

Professor Henryk Krawczyk
Rector of the Gdansk University of Technology