EMPLOYER ZONE

University of Lodz supports the first steps of its students and graduates, simultaneously helping employers from the region find the best employees. We shape the entrepreneurial attitude of the members of our community through cooperation with the most recognized brands in the country and abroad.

We strive to become an institution that promotes entrepreneurship intensely: both, among our students and employees. Our goal is to promote start-ups, technology transfer and disseminate knowledge in the field of entrepreneurship. For this purpose, we have established Council for Entrepreneurship, University of Lodz, which consists of the University authorities and a large group of VIP alumni of the University.

As an entrepreneurial university we also promote external cooperation. This is what we offer to the companies and institutions from the region and the country that would like to cooperate with us.

We form strategic partnerships with commercial companies, public-sector bodies and other organisations. Building and maintaining strong relationships with socio-economic environment is a fundamental point of our University’s development strategy.

Centre for External Relations, UL initiates or supports Faculties when it comes to practical education that meets the needs of employers and is implemented with participation of entrepreneurs, managers and specialists. 

In the recent months intensive work has been focused on, among others, launching the previously mentioned Business Processes Automation field of study – designed in close cooperation with business representatives, who are going to join the teaching process as they have noticed a great increase in demand for the specialists in the field of robotisation. 

Previously, we have successfully supported acquiring partners, processing contracts or conducting communication for the fields such as: Linguistics for business (Infosys, Fujitsu, CERI) or Digital Banking and Finance (Accenture, mBank). 

Our goal as a University is to support our students, providing practical aspects of education in the form of formal and informal meetings, workshops and lectures. We offer high-quality, well-paid internships and apprenticeships in partner companies where students may develop their future careers. Tightening cooperation with business entities guarantees better adjustment of curricula to the needs of future employers, as well as commercial application of research results and utilisation of the University’s potential by companies in their day-to-day operations.

Industrial Doctoral programme offered at the University of Lodz aims at recruitment of a researcher for a specific project that may generate new knowledge and/or patents. The dual nature of the studies requires provision of a scientific promoter from the scientific unit. The second important element is involvement of the programme partner, which may be a company or other entity operating in the socio-economic environment. The necessary condition is to maintain the employment relationship of the doctoral student on a full-time basis throughout the period of study.

The University of Lodz seeks to be an attractive partner for official authorities in Poland and abroad and feels responsible for making its wide-ranging knowledge available for work on research-based public-sector service contracts. The University wants the up-to-date, reliable, impartial and relevant information to be available to the society, including decision-makers in parliament, government and official agencies.  

Over the years 2016-2020 the University was consistently developing a cooperation model, which takes into consideration differences in the mission and tasks of the university and local governments, and simultaneously strengthens and accelerates actions for the sake of sustainable development of local communities. 

Among others, as part of the cooperation the University:

• consulted and co-created strategic documents for the Voivodeship of Lodz and the City of Lodz.
• co-organised events connected with economic promotion of the region, such as: European Economic Forum, Bioeconomy Congress.  

We continue close cooperation with the City of Lodz within Młodzi w Łodzi [The Youth in Lodz] programme. We fund scholarships or awards in start-up competitions as well as carry out promotional activities. On numerous occasions employees of the University of Lodz supported efforts of the City to attract new investors by providing information on the personnel available in Lodz and educational potential of the University.

We establish cooperation with non-governmental organisations. In 2019, together with Lodz Civil Society Centre (Łódzkie Centrum Obywatelskie), we organised a training as part of Development of Digital Competence programme for representatives of Lodz NGOs. Within the same programme we cooperated with Art_Inkubator and Skyhub, sharing our knowledge and experience with novice entrepreneurs. We also hosted the School with Class Foundation or the Form.Art Foundation at ul. Lumumby 14, supporting projects implemented by the foundations. 

As part of the optional internships organisation, over the years 2016-2020 we started cooperation with, among others, Instytut Działań Twórczych Foundation, Foundation of Bank Ochrony Środowiska, GAJUSZ Foundation, Instytut Spraw Rodziny Foundation, JiM Foundation or SŁONIE NA BALKONIE Foundation.