GDAŃSK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGYGdańsk University of Technology (Gdańsk Tech) is a leading research and development center in Pomerania. It consists of 8 faculties, and the total number of students in the current academic year comes to about 15 thousand. All faculties have full academic rights, 4 of them (including the Faculty of Management and Economics) obtained the scientific category A as the result of the last parametric evaluation, and 2 faculties-category A+. In the last parametric evaluation, Gdańsk University of Technology got the top mark among Polish technical universities, while the Faculty of Management and Economics (FM&E), due to its high rating in category I parameterization, was nominated as one of four faculties in the field of economic sciences to the A+ category.
Currently Gdańsk Tech with almost 26 thousand students and 1200 academics is one of the leading technical universities in Poland offering 33 fields of undergraduate studies and 29 of graduate studies, including 4 Interdepartmental as well as 2 intercollegiate, unique in the country: mechanical-medical engineering, and construction chemistry. 15 of these studies is offered in English. Gdańsk Tech currently has more than 420 bilateral agreements under the Erasmus program and nearly 80 cooperation agreements of a general nature. There are also agreements about double diploma programs with Danish, French, German, Swedish and Italian universities.
The University itself has broad connections with the business world, for example it is the member of several clusters:
Pomeranian Bio-Eco-Chemical Cluster, Polish Maritime Cluster, Klima Pomerania, Interizon Pomeranian ICT Cluster-which is one of the most developed clusters in Poland, awarded with the title of the Key Pomeranian Region Cluster in a competition organized by the Regional Board.
Over the period of the last 15 years, Gdańsk Tech has signed around 900 contracts for projects in the following categories:
national research programs, structural Funds, international research projects and framework programs and international educational projects.
The Faculty of Management and Economics was established in 1993 due to the merger of the Department of Organization and Design of Production Systems of the Faculty of Machine Technology and Production Organization with the inter-faculty Institute of Economics and Humanities. In this way, the skills and experience of academic teachers with modern engineering, economic, humanistic and managerial knowledge were combined. People are the key resources of the Faculty-academic teachers as well as administration and service employees who support the work of academic teachers. At present, there are 116 academic teachers (employed at FME), 95 academic teachers hold research and teaching positions, and 21 hold teaching positions. The Faculty has high-quality human resources, able to contribute to successful Project realization.
Currently, FME runs 5 fields of studies (Economic Analytics, Economics, Management, Engineering Management and Data Engineering-in cooperation with the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics), which educate nearly 2,000 students. It also offers a variety of post-graduate courses (almost 30 editions per year), which are often selected as complementary to the possessed skills and competences.
As one of the few Polish universities, Gdańsk Tech is a member of the prestigious European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD), which unites the best business schools and management departments. In 2017, Faculty of Management and Economics joined CEEMAN-the International Association for Management Development in Dynamic Societies. Education programs are highly rated by both EDUNIVERSAL and U-Multirank.
An important area of FM&E is the development of cooperation with the local government and business environment, in order to involve stakeholders in designing changes, as well as expanding and enhancing the offer of scholarships for the students.
The members of Gdansk team are as follows: