Industrial Doctoral Programme is a programme that allows you to combine research and professional work. It opens the way to obtaining a doctoral degree for people who want to simultaneously develop a scientific career and not to stop working outside the university. Industrial Doctoral Programme has a very practical dimension, because it means the preparation of a doctoral dissertation that will improve functioning of the organisation that employs a doctoral student. All students of the University of Lodz who have defended their Master's degree and plan to apply for admission to doctoral schools at our university can apply to the programme.

Remember that the condition for participation in the programme is being admitted to the UL doctoral school, being employed by an organisation and being granted an auxiliary supervisor from among its employees.   

During your doctoral studies, you can count on a scholarship in the amount of PLN 3450 to 4450 per month, co-financing of the costs of using research infrastructure and social security. 

Entities that already cooperate with the University of Lodz under the programme are, among others: Łukasiewicz Research Network – Textile Research Institute (Łódź) and Institute of Electronic Materials Technology (Warsaw); Centre for Innovation and Technology Transfer (Łódź); Grupa Lotos S.A. (Gdańsk); Bionanopark (Łódź); Fundacja Rozwoju Przedsiębiorczości (Foundation for the Development of Entrepreneurship) (Łódź); Lumileds Poland S.A. (Pabianice); EC1- the City of Culture in Lodz; ABB Sp. z o.o. (Aleksandrów Łódzki); Social Support Association "JA-TY-MY" (Łódź); State Ethnographic Museum (Warsaw). Chemat Sp. z o.o. (Konin); Municipal Investment Board (Łódź).
 

What does an employing organisation gain? 

• Support for solving the problem it is facing.
• The chance to hire a specialist in a given field who will conduct scientific research to solve a specific problem. 
• The possibility of deducting from the tax base 50% of personnel costs related to the employment of a doctoral student and deducting funds spent on R&D development of competences of employees participating in the programme. 

What does a doctoral student gain?

• The possibility of preparing a doctoral dissertation under the substantive supervision of both a supervisor from a scientific unit and an auxiliary supervisor indicated by the employer. 
• Remuneration for work in the company and a scholarship from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education in the amount of PLN 3450, and after the mid-term evaluation – PLN 4450 per month. 
   

Inquiries about the programme can be directed to Agnieszka Wojnarowska from the UL Service Centre for Students and PhD Candidates (Doctoral Students' Affairs).

You can also find more information on the website of the Ministry of Education and Science.

University of Lodz has opened a call for applications for the 6th edition of the Industrial Doctoral Programme. Its participants will conduct scientific and implementation research with selected socio-economic entities and companies. All students who have defended their Master's degree and plan to apply to doctoral schools at our university can apply for admission to the programme. The call will run until 1 June 2022. 

The main goal of the Industrial Doctoral Programme is to prepare a doctoral dissertation that will be applied in the work and operation of a specific company. Doctoral students, under the supervision of two supervisors - scientific supervisor from the university and industrial one from the employing company, will work on solving the problem that the entrepreneur reports.

Conditions for starting the programme:

• admission to the doctoral school of a person who is or will be employed on a full-time basis by a selected entity; the aforementioned entity has to agree to their education at the doctoral school under the programme and provide the doctoral student with an auxiliary supervisor;
• appointment by the university of an auxiliary supervisor, indicated by the entity employing the doctoral student from among employees of this entity.

Funding

Doctoral students benefiting from the programme will receive scholarships in the following amount:

• PLN 3,450 per month – until the month when the mid-term evaluation was conducted;
• PLN 4,450 per month – after the month when the mid-term evaluation was conducted.

Companies

Entities that already cooperate with the University of Lodz under the programme are, among others: Łukasiewicz Research Network – Textile Research Institute (Łódź) and Institute of Electronic Materials Technology (Warsaw); Centre for Innovation and Technology Transfer (Łódź); Bionanopark (Lodz); Fundacja Rozwoju Przedsiębiorczości (Foundation for the Development of Entrepreneurship) (Łódź); EC1 Łódź City of Culture in Łódź; ABB Sp. z o.o.  (Aleksandrów Łódzki); Social Support Association "JA-TY-MY" (Łódź); State Ethnographic Museum (Warsaw). Chemat Sp. z o.o. (Konin); Municipal Investment Board (Łódź); Łódź Voivodeship Spatial Planning Office; Institute of Polish Mother's Health Center (Łódź); Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź; Fuchs Oil Corporation (Pl) Sp. z o.o. (Gliwice); Museum of Film in Lodz; Urban Forms Foundation (Łódź); LOTOS Upstream Sp. Z o.o.(Gdańsk)

Application procedure

If you are interested in participating in the programme, please contact:

mgr Agnieszka Wojnarowska e-mail: agnieszka.wojnarowska@uni.lodz.pl

Phone: +48 42-635-43-85; +48 889-052-646