PROJECTS

• Supervisors: Dr Paweł Piątek (Department of Immunology and Infectious Biology, Faculty of Law and Administration), Dr Karolina Sztobryn (Department of European Private Law, Faculty of Law and Administration). 
• Student: Dominika Goss, Microbiology 
• Partner: OLEOFARM
• Project: Oleofarm is one of the leaders in the dietary supplement industry, which develops its products towards innovative, biologically active preparations. The company has the idea and the technology to produce these preparations, however, it has no knowledge of the patent purity of such a solution and no literature on the biological action of the preparation. The aim of this project is to investigate the state of knowledge on active substances that will be used to develop the finished product(s) by Oleofarm and to prepare a description of the state of the art of the above preparations/ways of producing them on an industrial scale. The first part of the project will be carried out under the supervision of Dr Paweł Piątek, and the second part will be carried out with the participation of Karolina Sztobryn, a specialist from the WPiA.

• Supervisor:Dr Aleksandra Budzyńska, Laboratory of Microbiological and Technical Services 
• Student: Mikołaj Cybulski, Medical Biotechnology
• Partner: UNIRUBBER sp. z o.o. 
• ​​​​​​​Project: UNIRUBBER sp. z o.o. continuously improves sports and leisure spaces and reduces the environmental impact of its products. It engages the best specialists and technologies to meet the expectations of its customers and business partners. This time, through cooperation with a specialist from the University of Łódź, the company intends to have its products tested for their antimicrobial properties - inhibiting the growth of pathogenic bacteria. The aim of the project is to address the problems described and to investigate the antimicrobial action of flooring for sports and leisure purposes.

• Supervisor:Dr Pawel Jarosiewicz, UNESCO Chair of Ecohydrology and Applied Ecology 
• Student: Patrycja Chamczak, Environmental Protection 
• Partner: Hydroidea sp. z o.o. sp.k. 
• Project: The scientific objective of the project is to determine the effectiveness of sorptive materials produced by Hydroidea and the possibility of their application in Sequential Sedimentation and Biofiltration Systems (SSSB). Intermittent water flow conditions, which are becoming increasingly frequent in urban watercourses as a result of climate change, will be considered. The project will be carried out on the basis of laboratory and field studies. Guidelines for optimising the effectiveness of SSSBs will be developed.

• Supervisor: Dr Anna Jasinska, Department of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology 
• Students: Dominika Antosiak and Agnieszka Sobieszek, Biotechnology 
• Partner: Energomat 
• Project: The aim of this project is to determine against which species of micro-organisms the OZONEA preparations will have a static or bicidal effect. In addition, the concentrations causing such an effect will be determined. In addition, in response to a request from an external partner, tests will be carried out using different types of oil than those used to date. The results obtained may enable the partner company to expand its activities and range of products in the future.  

• Supervisor: Dr Magdalena Kowalewicz-Kulbat, Department of Immunology and Infectious Biology 
• Students: Michalina Rachubik, Mateusz Kosiński, Microbiology  
• Partner: Kopalnia Soli Bochnia sp. z o.o.  
• Project: The aim of the project is to carry out qualitative analysis of mesophilic microorganisms isolated from air and rock samples of the Bochnia Salt Mine by means of specialised technology with the use of a compact, automatic Vitek®2 system for microorganism identification. Previous research conducted at the Department of Immunology and Infection Biology at the University of Łódź together with the Bochnia Salt Mine has indicated the presence of mesophilic microorganisms in the air and rocks, but until now it has not been possible to identify them qualitatively, only to study them quantitatively.

• Supervisor:Dr Agnieszka Krupa, Department of Immunology and Infectious Biology 
• Students: Martyna Nowicka, Maja Krupa 
• Partner: Jacek Szulc Veterinary Centre 
• Project: Colchicine is a substance with strong anti-inflammatory effects and is used in the treatment of certain diseases, e.g. gout or ischaemic heart disease, but unfortunately it has a number of side effects with prolonged use. The aim of the project is to minimise the toxicity of colchicine by encapsulating it in nanoparticles, characterising its properties in a 'new formulation', determining the biodistribution of the preparation and the anti-inflammatory properties of colchicine, in collaboration and consultation with specialists at the Jacek Szulc Veterinary Centre.

• Supervisor: Dr Przemysław Płociński, Department of Immunology and Infectious Biology  
• Student: Oleksandra Komarova, Forensic Biology 
• Partner: PROT Sp. z o.o.  
• Project: The aim of the project is to optimise the process of efficient biosynthesis of a peptide construct in different expression strains of Escherichia coli, while maintaining its structural properties desirable from the point of view of the partner institution. 

• Supervisor: Dr. Sylwia Różalska, Prof. UŁ, Department of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology  
• Student: Katarzyna Prochoń 
• Partner: UNIRUBBER Sp. z o.o. 
• Project: UNIRUBBER Sp. z o.o. continuously improves sports and leisure spaces and reduces the environmental impact of its products. It engages the best specialists and technologies to meet the expectations of its customers and business partners. Through cooperation with specialists from the University of Lodz, the company intends to have its products tested for antimicrobial properties in terms of inhibiting the growth of fungi (in particular allergenic and toxigenic filamentous fungi and pathogenic yeasts). 

• Supervisor: Dr Małgorzata Siwińska, Department of Bacterial Biology 
• Student: Oleksandra Komarova, Forensic Biology  
• Partner: ONESANO S.A.  
• Project: The aim of the project is to meet the need of ONESANO S.A. and investigate the effect of a postbiotic preparation of Yarrowia lypolitica on the secretory activity of monocytes. It is a continuation of the collaboration conducted through the University of Lodz Foundation with the staff and PhD students of the Department of Immunology and Infection Biology. The project will answer the question of which cytokines are secreted by monocytes in response to the postbiotic Yarrowia lypolitica.

• Supervisor:Dr Aleksandra Szwed-Georgiou, Department of Immunology and Infectious Biology 
• Student: Wiktoria Barczyk, Microbiology 
• Partner: ICHEM sp. z o.o. 
• Project: Androgenetic alopecia (AGA) is the most common type of hair loss. AGA affects more than 80% of men and approximately 42% of women. The incidence of the condition increases with age. Treatment of androgenetic alopecia is difficult because the hypersensitivity of hair follicles to 5-hydrotestosterone (DHT) is genetically determined. However, it is possible to inhibit progressive alopecia and stimulate hair growth. The aim of this project is to address the problems described and to test the current Androdiet® compound produced by ICHEM for inhibition of 5-hydroxytestosterone production in the LNCaP cell line model. The execution of the work will provide information on the mechanism of action of the Androdiet® blend. The company has end-user feedback confirming the efficacy of the formulation, but has no knowledge explaining the mechanism of action of the bioactive substances contained in it.

• Supervisor:Dr Marcin Włodarczyk, Department of Immunology and Infectious Biology 
• Student: Jolanta Kalinowska, Microbiology  
• Partner: KYA NATURAL COMPANY Sp. z o.o. 
• Project: The aim of this project is to meet a need that the company has defined for research into the antimicrobial and cytotoxic properties of fulvic acid. The company is interested in expanding the application of formulations based on this compound and needs data to support the directions of development and definition of recipients of the solution. It also intends to ensure the safety of the formulation, and therefore requests that the research be supplemented with cell cytotoxicity tests.
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• Supervisor: Dr Marcin Włodarczyk, Department of Immunology and Infectious Biology 
• Students: Mateusz Kosiński, Agnieszka Domańska, Microbiology  
• Partner: ATMAT sp. z o.o. 
• Project: One of the most significant drawbacks of biomedical 3D printers currently on the market is the failure to maintain sterility conditions during the production process of medical bioprints, which results in the need to sterilise the produced solutions.  The aim of the project is to address these problems and to test the bio-printers and the bio-prints produced using them for microbiological purity.  The work will provide information on whether the company's assumptions regarding the maintenance of sterile conditions in the production process and the solution itself (bioprints) meet microbiological safety criteria. This will allow the production process to be adjusted accordingly or confirm the possibility of proceeding to the device certification stage.

• Supervisor: Dr. Małgorzata Siwińska, Department of Bacterial Biology
• Study Subject: Patrycja Kotynia, University of Medical Sciences
• Partner: ATMAT Sp. z o.o.

This project aims to evaluate the antimicrobial activity of modified polycaprolactone (PCL) and hydroxyapatite (HAp) 3D prints using resazurin as an indicator of cell activity and viability. The project is interdisciplinary in nature and is based on collaboration between the University of Lodz (supervisor), the Medical University (student) and ATMAT Ltd. (external partner). It is a continuation of the cooperation between the University of Lodz with ATMAT Sp. z o.o., which was started as part of the first edition of the Science Hub competition,  in which, under the supervision of Dr Marcin Włodarczyk, research entitled "Evaluation of microbiological purity of the process of manufacturing 3D prints for biomedical applications by a multifunctional device for rapid prototyping of bone implants" was carried out. The results obtained within the framework of this research will be used to implement the doctoral thesis of the representative from the entrepreneur's side - Mr. Mateusz Dylag.

• Supervisor:Dr hab Magdalena Małecka, Prof., UŁ, Department of Physical Chemistry 
• Student: Jan Chodorski, Chemistry of cosmetics and pharmaceuticals with elements of business 
• Partner: Delia Cosmetics Sp. z o.o. 
• Project description: The aim of this project is the broad characterisation of crystalline substances that have appeared in lipsticks sold by the company Delia Cosmetics. 

• Supervisors: Dr hab. Sylwia Smarzewska, Dr Kamila Koszelska, Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry 
• Students: Michał Świderski, Monika Wypych, Chemical Analytics 
• Partner: Miramar sp. z o.o.  
• Project description: The aim of this project is to optimise the sesame seed roasting process with regard to sesamol content in the end product, i.e. sesame oil. 

• Supervisors: Dr Sylwia Smarzewska, Dr Dariusz Guziejewski, Dr Krzysztof Podlaski
• Students: Jagoda Seroka, Gabriela Machura, Martyna Dawidowicz
• Partner: MANOLO Radosław Wojtaniec
• Project description: The aim of the project is to carry out crossbreeding of different plant varieties of the same species in order to obtain plants with selected external characteristics and desired biochemical composition. The new varieties will have a targeted content of amide compounds with health-promoting and/or anti-cancer properties while maintaining a taste acceptable to consumers. The project plans to use an agent-based modelling approach. This is a modern approach to analyse and reproduce natural processes. One of the main advantages of the method is the breakdown of the problem into finer decision modules, called agents. These agents represent independent and largely autonomous logical elements that make decisions based on information about the external environment. In a nutshell, we can compare the agent environment to the behaviour of cells in an intermediate organism. Each cell independently receives compounds and impulses from the outside and produces products or impulses. Cells differ in type, kind as well as in the function they perform in the organism. However, not every cell of the same type functions in exactly the same way, and there is often damage. It can therefore be said that each cell retains a certain level of individuality.In our project, numerical agents describe elements of the biological process during reproduction and pollination of organisms during the generation of new generations.Using in the project, process optimisation methods modelled on the theory of natural selection in biological evolution, allows us to describe the specifics of inheritance and avoid the 'trial and error' method often used during crossbreeding. We believe that our research will yield valuable results in the field of obtaining plants with unique biochemical characteristics that benefit the health of consumers.

• Supervisors:Dr hab. Sylwia Smarzewska, Dr Kamila Koszelska, Dr Monika Skowron-Jaskólska
• Students: Jagoda Seroka, Gabriela Machura, Bartłomiej Cieślak
• Partner: Miramar (same as previous project)
• Project description: A previous Science Hub research project co-implemented with Miramar resulted in a great success - which was the launch of a new product. Sharing a common passion and love for natural products, we decided to continue our research collaboration in the field of food chemistry. This time, a selection of natural oils produced by Miramar will be put under the microscope, and the aim of the research can generally be described as the search for new applications for these oils. More specifically, the researchers plan to test the protective, nourishing and regenerative properties of the oils, with a particular focus on their potential for use as preparations to protect the skin from harmful UV radiation. Our skin is exposed to the harmful effects of the sun's rays throughout the year, with particular intensity in summer. For this reason, the use of suitable cosmetics with a high SPF factor is recommended to provide protection against the adverse effects of UVA and UVB radiation. Sunscreens (chemical and physical) are not only found in professional creams or ointments, various plants and their derivatives (e.g. oils) are also excellent sources of them. Researchers and students from the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Łódź, together with the Miramar company, have prepared a research plan aimed at extensive analyses of selected natural oils, including chemical analyses of UV radiation reflection or absorption, as well as skin tests to indicate whether the chemical properties of the oils correlate with their cosmetic properties. The common goal of the researchers and the company's representatives is to bring a product to the market that meets customers' expectations with excellent and, above all, NATURAL protection.

• Supervisor: Prof. Agnieszka Bukowska-Piestrzyńska, Department of Logistics and Innovation 
• Students: Zuzanna Lesiak, Julia Stemplowska, Bartłomiej Rutkowski, Arkadiusz Kunaszyk, Logistics 
• Partner: Dradura Polska sp. z o.o. 
• Project description: Our team's primary objective is to reduce internal transport costs and optimise employee working time, while maximising production volumes.  

• Supervisor:Dr Joanna Górniak, Department of Logistics and Innovation 
• Students: Hubert Denert, Dominika Gabrysiak, Mateusz Tomczak, Logistics 
• Partner: Arvato Polska Sp. z o.o. 
• Project description: Project goals: Analysis and diagnosis: 
  • competition and identification of threats to the e-commerce store in the fashion industry; 
  • consumer preferences regarding methods of payment and delivery of online orders (detailed identification of the most and less popular options); 
  • consumer preferences regarding online shopping, with particular emphasis on the propensity of consumers to purchase products online from sustainable companies. 

• Supervisor: Dr Dorota Kałuża-Kopias, Department of Demography 
• Students: Olga Korczyńska, Sociology 
• Partner: Treasures of Generations Foundation 
• Project description: The aim of the project is to carry out questionnaire-based research on intergenerational conflicts.  

• Supervisor: Dr hab. Ewelina Wejbert-Wąsiewicz, Department of Sociology of Art 
• Students: Angelika Kapuścik, Ksawery Olczyk, Sociology 
• Partner: Pinocchio Theatre 
• Project description: The aim of the project is to obtain the opinion of the citizens of Łódź, and in particular the audiences of the Pinocchio Theatre, on the form it should take and the functionalities that should be included in its new seat. 

• Supervisor:Dr Anetta Buras-Marciniak, Department of Specialised Languages and Intercultural Communication 
• Student: Oliwia Boczek, Linguistics for Business 
• Partner: Philips Polska Sp. z o.o. 
• Project: The aim of the project is to create a guide for foreigners who intend to work in Philips Polska. As part of the project, the student will obtain information on the documents necessary for employing foreigners from the EU and non-EU countries, describe cultural differences that could cause culture shock, explain the operation of the Polish health service, banks and indicate social and cultural meeting places in Łódź. Philips Polska expects to produce a practical Powerpoint guide in English as part of the project. 

• Supervisor: Dr Katarzyna Fronczak, Department of Specialised Languages and Intercultural Communication 
• Student: Weronika Tomiak, Linguistics for Business 
• Partner: Neurodiversity Foundation 
• Project: The main aim of this project is to construct and use an English-Polish thematic dictionary of terms related to the topic of neurodiversity as a basis for creating training materials for external institutions as part of the statutory activities of the Neurodiversity Foundation. 

• Supervisor: Prof. dr hab. Marzena Woźniak-Łabieniec, Department of Polish Literature XX and XXI 
• Students: Agnieszka Nawrocka, Robert Grześkowiak, Natalia Jóźwiak, Polish Philology 
• Partner: Association of the Literary Institute Culture 
• Project: The aim of the project is to create conditions for using the rich archival and library resources of the Literary Institute based in Maisons Laffitte, one of the most important emigration centres documenting Polish literary and cultural life. 

• Supervisors: Dr Aleksandra Krupa-Ławrynowicz, Dr Alicja Piotrowska, Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Łódź 
• Students: Monika Raj, Kamil Ludwiczak, Ethnology and cultural anthropology 
• Partner: Lelów Walenty Zwierkowski Historical and Cultural Association 
• Project: The project involves the ethnographic identification of the local cultural heritage recorded in the memories and stories of the inhabitants of the village of Dobrogoszczyce (Śląskie Voivodeship) and providing local communities with tools to recreate, disseminate knowledge about the local cultural landscape and encourage reflection and action on their identity and heritage. 

• Supervisor:Dr hab. Krzysztof Lesiakowski, Department of Polish and World History after 1945 
• Students: Julia Gertner, History 
• Partner: Association of Combatants of UN Peace Missions 
• Project: The aim of the project is to analyse the current state of research on the participation of Polish women in missions abroad after 1945, and then, on the basis of the results of the analysis, to propose paths for the further development of research on this poorly known subject.

• Supervisor:Dr Olgierd Ławrynowicz, Department of Historical Archaeology and Archeology 
• Students: Daria Kacprowicz, Archaeology 
• Partner: The Friends of Krapkowice Association 
• Project: The project aims to diagnose the changes in the physical and cultural landscape that have taken place over recent years in Krapkowice, a district town in the Opole Province. It falls within the thematic and methodological scope of Archaeology of the Contemporary Past.

• Supervisor: Dr Olgierd Ławrynowicz, Department of Historical Archaeology and Archeology 
• Student: Anna Ciszek, Archaeology 
• Partner: Historical and Cultural Association 
• Project: The aim of the project is to popularise the results of archaeological excavations of underground relics of the pre-local, early-medieval Lelów, discovered in the years 2022-2023 in the area of the village of Staromieście near Lelów in historical western Małopolska (currently in the Częstochowa district of the Silesian Voivodeship).

• Supervisors: Dr Sylwia Smarzewska, Dr Dariusz Guziejewski, Dr Krzysztof Podlaski
• Students: Jagoda Seroka, Gabriela Machura, Martyna Dawidowicz
• Partner: MANOLO Radosław Wojtaniec
• Project description: The aim of the project is to carry out crossbreeding of different plant varieties of the same species in order to obtain plants with selected external characteristics and desired biochemical composition. The new varieties will have a targeted content of amide compounds with health-promoting and/or anti-cancer properties while maintaining a taste acceptable to consumers. The project plans to use an agent-based modelling approach. This is a modern approach to analyse and reproduce natural processes. One of the main advantages of the method is the breakdown of the problem into finer decision modules, called agents. These agents represent independent and largely autonomous logical elements that make decisions based on information about the external environment. In a nutshell, we can compare the agent environment to the behaviour of cells in an intermediate organism. Each cell independently receives compounds and impulses from the outside and produces products or impulses. Cells differ in type, kind as well as in the function they perform in the organism. However, not every cell of the same type functions in exactly the same way, and there is often damage. It can therefore be said that each cell retains a certain level of individuality.In our project, numerical agents describe elements of the biological process during reproduction and pollination of organisms during the generation of new generations.Using in the project, process optimisation methods modelled on the theory of natural selection in biological evolution, allows us to describe the specifics of inheritance and avoid the 'trial and error' method often used during crossbreeding. We believe that our research will yield valuable results in the field of obtaining plants with unique biochemical characteristics that benefit the health of consumers.

• Supervisor:Dr Monika Bartkiewicz, Department of Differential Equations and Informatics
• Student: Aleksander Rycerz 
• Partner: Department of Biostatistics and Translational Medicine, Medical University of Łódź 
• Project: The aim of the project is for a student to carry out research to solve the problem of the long search for optimal deep neural networks for data with fewer instances but higher dimensionality. This characterises the multiomic data obtained. The solutions obtained will allow their implementation into the OmicSelector software created and developed in the Department of Biostatistics and Translational Medicine at the Medical University of Lodz. Positive results could form the basis of a larger grant application taking into account the specific optimisation of artificial intelligence methods to search for biomarkers in oncology. 

• Supervisor: mgr Piotr Frątczak, Department of Applied Informatics 
• Student: Łukasz Stępień, Computer Science 
• Partner: NOWA Krzysztof Nowak, Sławomir Dulęba s.c. 
• Project: The aim of the project is to create a web application, operating on the server side and allowing easy handling and representation of the resources of a medical clinic. The applied methodology provides for the use of network technologies enabling authorised clinic staff to conveniently access and process data, including creating, updating and deleting content, without the need for specialist knowledge of IT and computer network operation. The expected result is an infrastructure providing the aforementioned functionalities, together with access to a graphical interface displayed in a web browser. 

• Supervisor: Dr Artur Lipnicki, Department of Nonlinear Analysis 
• Student: Szymon Zieliński, Computer Science 
• Partner: Municipal Library of Łódź 
• Project: 3D design of the Monopolis Łódź complex based on photogrammetry methods, including the process of texturing specific elements of the building's architecture. The model is currently almost finished (80%) with a preliminary 3D printout of the stl file. The physical model is available for viewing. 

• Supervisor:Dr Artur Lipnicki, Department of Nonlinear Analysis 
• Student: Miłosz Ignaszak, Computer Science 
• Partner: IV Emilia Sczaniecka Secondary School in Łódź 
• Project: Visualisation of the faces of two people: the patron of the school, the Polish social and national activist Emilia Szczaniecka, and the mathematician Stefan Banach. Two main environments will be used to analyse the project: Blender and ZBrush. The geometry will be modified with the inclusion and proper selection of a number of modifiers to make the model reflect as much realism as possible. The blanket effect can be 3D printed. 

• Supervisor:Dr Aleksandra Mroczek-Zulicka, Institute of Urban Geography, Tourism and Geoinformation, 
• Students: Michał Stańczak, Julia Lessman, Tourism and Recreation 
• Partner: Łódzka Organizacja Turystyczna (Łódź Tourist Organisation) 
• Project: The main aim of the project is to assess the tourist attractiveness of Łódź and the quality of distributed tourist information at the newly renovated IT point at 28 Piotrkowska Street, in the opinion of participants in the celebrations of the 600th anniversary of the city's granting of city rights. The period chosen for the survey is important in view of the planned opening of this IT point and the numerous jubilee events likely to attract a larger number of visitors than usual in a similar period. 

• Supervisor:Dr Anita Gulczyńska, Department of Social Pedagogy and Re-socialisation 
• Students: Aleksandra Prokopczyk, Pre-school and Early Childhood Pedagogy, Oliwia Milaszewska, Pedagogy (Social Pedagogy in the field of care and social-educational work 
• Partner: OPUS Centre for Promotion and Development of Civic Initiatives  
• Project: The target audience of the project are children and young people from the Łódź neighbourhoods of degraded areas (SOZ) designated for revitalisation. Research indicates a low level of participation of the inhabitants of such places in revitalisation. They reveal overt and covert reasons for this (e.g. gentrification) and its consequences (deepening of territorial stigma, social reproduction of obedient recipients, not co-creators of changes in the city). Young residents of the SOZ experience particular marginalisation in this process. They are excluded from the right to participate in community assemblies (Fitzpatrick et al. 2000), and their social class (euphemistically described by the term 'low educational attainment') and the position given to all adolescents as 'persons in the process of becoming', facilitate their definition as incapable of decision-making (Phillips 2004). From a pedagogical point of view, it is important to abolish the divisions that value citizens into 'better' and 'worse' and to empower young residents of the SOZ in the processes of co-creation of the city, in order to prevent social reproduction and nurture active citizenship. Project objectives:  
  •  To empower children and young people from the SOZ in revitalisation;  
  • to improve the model created by the UŁ staff during implementation in new neighbourhoods  
  • to establish cooperation with a partner with a strong position among the actors involved in social revitalisation in Lodz

• Supervisor: Dr Izabela Kamińska-Jatczak, Department of Social Pedagogy and Re-socialisation 
• Students: Sandra Chojnacka, Mateusz Dymowski, Aneta Grober, Jagoda Kazimierska, Pedagogy 
• Partner: Administrative Centre for Foster Care in Łódź  
• Project: The aim of the project entitled 'Parent Know Your Rights' is to provide information support for parents with limited, suspended or revoked parental authority and practitioners working with such persons (family assistants, social workers). The proposed activities are in line with the rights-based approach in social work practice, which seeks to empower people by respecting and educating them about their rights.

• Supervisor: Monika Wojtczak, PhD, Department of Social Pedagogy and Re-socialisation 
• Student: Natalia Dziąg, Re-socialisation Pedagogy 
• Partner: Stanisława Leszczyńska Single Mother's Home in Łódź  
• Project: The residents of the Single Mother's Home undoubtedly find themselves in a crisis situation, experiencing rejection by their families, partners or the wider social environment. They are often victims of long-term physical and psychological violence and require support in many areas of daily life. Trying to overcome the difficult situation they find themselves in requires them to take multidirectional action, including working with themselves but also building social relationships with others. Their experiences show that they encounter numerous failures in this area due to insufficient communication skills. Examples of such situations are contacts with employers, representatives of support institutions or offices, where they are assessed as demanding, aggressive and incompetent. The above-mentioned information from the women, the mothers living in the Lone Mother's Home and the staff formed the basis for the design of these activities.  The aim of the project is for the residents of the Single Mother's Home to learn about the elements of mediation approaches and to acquire the skills to use them in building social relationships.
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• Supervisor:Dr Mateusz Balcerzak, Department of Business and Commercial Law 
• Student: Artur Chróścicki, Law 
• Partner: Many Mornings Adrian Morawiak, Maciej Butkowski sp. k.  
• Project: The provisions implementing Directive (EU) 2019/2161 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 November 2019 amending Council Directive 93/13/EEC and European Parliament and Council Directives 98/6/EC, 2005/29/EC and 2011/83/EU with regard to better enforcement and modernisation of EU consumer protection legislation (hereinafter: the Omnibus Directive) are effective in the Polish legal order as of 1 January 2023.  
  • The Omnibus Directive aims to increase the level of consumer protection by, inter alia, combating the unfair practice of fictitious price reductions and the posting of false comments on products sold. New obligations for traders resulting from the implementation of the Omnibus directive include, for example, displaying on a website the last lowest price of a product in the last 30 days before a reduction was made and whether and how the trader ensures that published product reviews come from consumers who have used or purchased the product.  
  • The implementation of the new obligations triggers the need to introduce changes to the structure of the online shop and to update the content of the published documents, in particular the rules of sale. At the same time, the proper way of implementing the individual obligations raises doubts. Should information about the last lowest price within 30 days constantly accompany the product offer? Or is it sufficient that the consumer is made aware of it at one of the stages leading up to the purchase (e.g. as part of a page providing detailed information about the product or on a subpage containing the so-called 'shopping cart'). Is the obligation to provide information on the procedure for verifying the authenticity of product comments valid when they refer to the trader himself and not to his products? These are just some of the questions that can be raised by the new regulation. 

• Supervisor:Dr Jakub Janeta, Chair of Business and Commercial Law, Department of Commercial Law 
• Student: Mateusz Sawicki, Law 
• Partner: Cube Prosta Spółka Akcyjna  
• Project: The Simple Joint Stock Company is a new and so far poorly researched type of commercial company. Due to the short duration of the regulation and the small number of simple joint stock companies, the theoretical assumptions and expectations regarding this type of company have not been verified in practice. For this reason, the possibility of cooperation within the framework of the project with a company of this type is an extremely valuable experience, as it allows, first of all, to verify the theoretical assumptions formulated in the course of the regulation with the actual motivation of the entrepreneur/investor for choosing this organisational and legal form. Subsequently, by familiarising oneself with the structure of the company, it will be possible to assess and compare the model solutions proposed in the normative regulation with those adopted in the company, taking into account the key aspect of shareholders' corporate rights. In the latter, the research will focus on issues related to shareholders' voting rights and the possibility of using in a company the flexible voting privileges (founder shares) introduced into the Polish legal order for the first time. The expected results of the project will be the preparation of a fragment of a master's thesis using the results of the conducted research. A secondary objective of the project will be to present the company with alternative solutions to those currently adopted in the event that it is established that there is a normative possibility of introducing changes that better meet the expectations of the company and its shareholders. The project will involve researching company documentation (e.g. articles of association/chapters), preparing and conducting a survey with the participation of management and shareholders covering motivations for choosing the organisational and legal form, solutions applied, expectations and assumed effects as well as corporate rights of shareholders. 

• Supervisor: Dr Jakub Janeta, Chair of Business and Commercial Law, Department of Commercial Law 
• Study Subject: Mateusz Kostro, Law 
• Partner: HM Logistic Sp. z o.o. 
• Project: As of 22 May 2023, the Law of 26 January 2023 on family foundations entered into force. Family foundations are a long-awaited solution to preserve the coherence of the created structure of a company or companies without the risks that are associated with the ascension of successors to the rights of the creators of these companies. A family foundation is therefore intended as a remedy for the defragmentation of the business that often follows, disputes between successors in title and the consequent loss of value of the business or the closure of the business. For this reason, the opportunity to engage with an entity belonging to a group of family businesses where investors are considering the possibility of creating a family foundation offers the chance to carry out an investigation into the motivation behind the creation of such an entity or the possible abandonment of this form of securing succession. It will also make it possible to identify the practical, and above all legal, problems that may accompany the decision to establish a family foundation, the shaping of its internal structure and the subsequent relationship between the foundation and the companies whose branches will be contributed to it.  
  • The aim of the project would be, first of all, to examine the motivation for the establishment of a family foundation, to identify the dominant factors supporting the separation of this form, and to analyse the internal (organisational) structure of the family foundation from the investors' perspective. In this last aspect, the model of managerial competence and the founder's responsibility for the foundation's liabilities should be particularly considered. 

• Supervisors: Dr Paweł Piątek (Department of Immunology and Infectious Biology, Faculty of Law), Dr Karolina Sztobryn (Department of European Private Law, Faculty of Law). 
• Student:  Dominika Goss
• Partner: Oleofarm Sp. z o.o.
• Project: Oleofarm is one of the leaders in the dietary supplement industry, which develops its products towards innovative, biologically active preparations. The company has the idea and technology to produce these preparations, but has no knowledge of the patent purity of such a solution and no literature on the biological action of the preparation. The aim of this project is to investigate the state of the art of active substances that will be used to develop the finished product(s) by Oleofarm and to prepare a description of the state of the art of the above preparations/ways of producing them on an industrial scale. The first part of the project will be carried out under the supervision of Dr Paweł Piątek, and the second part will be carried out with the participation of Karolina Sztobryn, a specialist from the WPiA. 

• Supervisor:Dr Magdalena Wiśniewska, Department of Urban and Regional Management 
• Student: Kinga Pryk, Management in Public Administration 
• Partner: City Zoological Garden in Łódź Sp. z o.o. 
• Project: Theoretical and empirical in nature. The aim of the study is to identify the factors of public value management of the Łódź Orientarium. Public value is understood, by analogy with the private sector, as the value experienced from public goods and services before their recipients, who are its peculiar "shareholders" - the persons who bear both the inputs and sacrifices for them.
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• Supervisor:dr hab. Jarosław Ropęga, prof. UŁ 
• Student: Daniel Skonieczka
• Partner: Mentoris Centrum Edukacyjno-Logopedyczne Jacek Cheda