Activity of the Council is supported by the Rector of the University of Lodz prof. Elżbieta Żądzińska, who during the first meeting confirmed that entrepreneurship will be included in the new strategy of UL.
- Economists as well as philologists, biologists, chemists, philosophers and physicists - they all may become entrepreneurs. Those who catch “the entrepreneurship bug” are offered specialist education, classes with practitioners and strong support in the implementation of their projects – says Agnieszka Kurczewska.
Members of the UL Council for Entrepreneurship are:
Maria Belka (Prytek Holdings Managing Director),
Jerzy Czubak (Business Group President, Amcor Tobacco Packaging),
Krzysztof Dudek (Director of the New Theatre in Lodz),
Bożena Graczyk (ING Bank Śląski SA Deputy Chairman of the Board),
Marcin Kowalczyk (Editor-in-Chief: Dziennik Łódzki, Ekspres Ilustrowany),
Adam Krasoń (Country Managing Partner PwC Polska),
Jarosław Kroc (Country Managing Director Accenture Polska),
Sławomir Lachowski (Economist and bank manager),
Jarosław Mastalerz (Managing Partner mAccelerator ),
Szymon Midera (Shumee S.A. President, Chairman of the Council for Entrepreneurship, University of Lodz),
Waldemar Olbryk (Head of Residential Business at Echo Investment SA),
Anna Olszyńska (Andel’s Vienna House, Hotel Manager),
Konrad Pokutycki (BSH Poland, Chairman of the Board),
Arkadiusz Przybył (Santander Bank Polska SA, Deputy Chairman of the Board),
Tomasz Stamirowski (Avallon, Managing Partner),
Jacek Szwajcowski (Pelion Group, Chairman of the Board)
and Radosław Wiśniewski (Owner of the Redan Group, Founder of the Happy Kids Foundation).
University of Lodz is, thus, consistently implementing its policy of tightening external cooperation at a number of levels. First of all, it wants to use entrepreneurial potential of thousands of its students more efficiently. The world of start-ups, entrepreneurial thinking, possibility of implementing your own ideas are topics that are still not sufficiently present during the studies.
The University plans to become a strong hub of entrepreneurship in the city, region and even in Poland. However, works on the development of entrepreneurship will begin with the dissemination of education in the field of entrepreneurship so that everyone can come across it, regardless of the field of study or interests.
University of Lodz is one of the biggest universities in Poland. Its mission is to educate top-class scientists and specialists in numerous fields of humanities, social sciences, natural and exact sciences as well as health sciences. UniLodz cooperates with business, both at the staff level by providing qualified employees as well as at the scientific level, by offering its know-how to enterprises from various areas of economy. University of Lodz is an academic institution open to the world – the number of its international students is constantly growing, while its Polish students, thanks to Exchange programmes, get to know Europe, Asia and travel overseas. The University is a part of Lodz, it operates for and with the community of Lodz by getting involved in many socio-cultural projects.
Source: Prof. Agnieszka Kurczewska
Edit: Promotion Centre UL