11-13 October 2026, Łódź, Poland

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Personal documents were identified as a distinct research category over 70 years ago by the Dutch historian and Holocaust survivor Jacques Presser. As a researcher documenting the fate of Dutch Jews during the war, he encountered the stories of both survivors and perpetrators. In his pioneering research on the wartime experiences of Jews in…

Students from Poland and Slovakia completed the Social Innovators training course delivered via the Moodle platform and participated in social innovation prototyping workshops.

Dr Patrycja Grzyś has been awarded First Prize in the Konrad Czapiewski Competition of the Committee for Spatial Economy and Regional Planning of the Polish Academy of Sciences for the best doctoral thesis in the field of spatial management.

From 13 to 15 May 2026, the FEAST project team from the University of Lodz, composed of Dr Aleksandra Różalska, Dr Kaja Zapędowska-Kling, dr hab. Artur Modliński, Associate Professor at the University of Lodz, and mgr Marta Malinowska, visited the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, where a meeting of partners of the following international projects: FEAST: Food systems that support transitions to…

A research team affiliated with the Faculty of Economics and Sociology of the University of Lodz has been honoured with the City of Łódź Award for outstanding achievements in scientific, artistic or social activity.

From 8 to 12 June 2026, representatives of the Faculty of Economics and Sociology of the University of Lodz together with students participated in the international Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) “Aspects of the European Labour Market”, hosted by the University of Applied Labour Studies (HdBA) in Schwerin (Germany).

A team of sociologists from UniLodz – Dr Jakub Adamski and Dr Remigiusz Żulicki – has been awarded for the second time in an international research competition organised by Infra4NextGen. The competition entitled Next Level Europe is a “datathon”, i.e. a programming marathon focused on data analysis, bringing together researchers and enthusiasts from across Europe.

Emilia Jurkiewicz-Majek from the Centre for Languages and Certification of the University of Lodz took part in the international DETcon 2026 conference. The event was organised in London by the Duolingo English Test – one of the key global institutions certifying proficiency in English, whose admission and assessment systems are recognised by higher education institutions worldwide.

Although May at the University of Lodz was rich in student-organised events – from Juwenalia, through conferences and symposia, to outreach meetings – we are only now, in June, returning to one of these initiatives. Not by chance. This is a month when discussions about people, their well-being, tolerance, diversity, and building communities in which everyone can feel safe and be themselves…

Research carried out at UniLodz continues to gain strong recognition among international academics and researchers. The UNIC international academic community – an alliance of universities from post-industrial cities, of which the University of Lodz is a member – has awarded one of the two main prizes in the UNIC Thematic Lines Best Paper Awards to Dr Monika Kaźmierczak, a speech therapist from the…