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Wroclaw University of Technology (Politechnika Wroclawska) was founded in 1945. The University was was housed in the buildings of the former Technische Hochschule Breslau, which had existed since 1910.

At present, Wroclaw University of Technology (WUT) has 31,936 students studying in Wroclaw and at its three branches located in the largest towns of the region. WUT employs a staff of almost 4,200 (including 2,035 academic teachers), it has about 250 buildings with modern laboratories, workshops, libraries and large and small lecture theatres, equipped with audio-visual and multimedia devices; it has a number of technical workshops, self-transport and repair bases, and a rich social, sport and recreation base.

New, extremely ambitious tasks have been undertaken by the university, aimed at developing and expanding educational possibilities as determined by inter-disciplinary sciences, technical progress, economic globalisation and fast access to information. Thus, WUT’s proposed didactic programmes of B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D. and postgraduate studies enable the university not only to pass on professional knowledge, but also to shape students’ ability to formulate and solve problems independently.

WUT develops its own research on a large scale, connected not only with the current need to modernise study programmes, but also with a rich service offering directed toward numerous research and scientific institutions, both national and foreign. The breadth of the university’s research, educational platforms, projects, expertise and the implementation of all these activities by its scientists embraces over 600 detailed thematic fields. Research goes on in a broadly developed network of laboratories, workshops and teams found at all the faculties and university units. It is possible – particularly in co-operation