Cooperation with universities
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Bridging the Gap: Building Lasting Partnerships Between Business and Science
We believe that development is a result of joint action. Strengthening relations between entrepreneurs and scientists is crucial for the development of the voivodeship. However, management models in business and in university units are two different worlds, the understanding of which can only be ensured by lasting and based on solid foundations. partnership.
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The Value of Connection: What Your Business Gains from Science-Industry Ties
Technology Transfer Centers and positions such as innovation brokers or specialists in cooperation with universities are being established more and more often on the Pomeranian market. And what can you gain from such a relationship?
Driving Regional Growth Through Market and Academic Collaboration
Regional development is the result of joint actions. Increasingly, specialized Technology Transfer Centres, innovation brokers, and university cooperation specialists are expanding across the Pomeranian market to connect academia with business.
Commercializing University Research and Supporting Entrepreneurship
These dedicated units are specifically created to manage and commercialize research outcomes conducted at local universities. Their core goal is to actively support academic entrepreneurship and foster socio-economic cooperation.
Applied Research for
Better Products
- Commercialisation of research and development results through invention disclosure, patenting and licensing.
- Development and implementation of educational programmes that influences the training of future employees.
- Student mobility, providing access to interns, trainees and future employees.
- Academic staff mobility, enabling experts exchange between universities and business.
- A more business oriented response from universities to market needs.
Fahrenheit Universities: A Union for Excellence
The Fahrenheit Universities (FarU), is a union of the three largest higher education institutions in the Pomorskie Voivodeship: the University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk University of Technology and the Medical University of Gdańsk. FarU represents a combined community of 44,000 students. Researchers from member universities conduct scientific activity across 31 disciplines.
Shared Resources, Unlimited Potential: Our R&D Infrastructure
The Union’s mission is to effectively use the resources of the three universities by supporting research and development. For this purpose, a catalogue and description of research infrastructure has been created, of which is also available for commercial use. Explore your research potential!
Career Offices: Your Gateway to Talent
Career Offices are also the first point of contact for businesses interested in cooperation with universities. Through them, companies can establish recruitment and workshop partnerships, deliver expert lectures, participate in university job fairs, publish and promote job and internship offers.
SEA-EU (European University of the Seas) is an alliance of nine universities from coastal countries: Poland, Spain, France, Germany, Croatia, Malta, Portugal, Italy and Norway. The initiative is based on shared maritime heritage and international cooperation. Its goal is to create the European University of the Seas — an interdisciplinary and multilingual academic space integrating education, research and innovation.
From the 2025/2026 academic year, SEA-EU offers joint degree programmes that enable students to study in an international environment. The project cooperates with 75 partners and covers five main research areas.
The ENHANCE project is an alliance of ten European technical universities from Sweden, Switzerland, Poland, Norway, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain. Established in 2019, the initiative focuses on international cooperation in the field of advanced technologies.
ENHANCE aims to create a European interdisciplinary space combining innovative technological development with social responsibility and sustainability principles. Alliance activities focus on key areas such as digitalisation and artificial intelligence, smart cities, environmental protection and sustainable development. ENHANCE supports academic mobility and collaboration between students and researchers from over 70 countries worldwide.
ACE2-EU (Applied, Connected, Entrepreneurial and Engaged – European University) is an international university alliance of which the Medical University of Gdańsk is a member. The alliance cooperates on innovative educational programmes, joint research projects and practical courses delivered using challenge-based learning methods, combining mobility, interdisciplinarity and cooperation with external partners.
The project emphasises sustainable social transformation, international cooperation, future skills development and joint solutions to social and technological challenges.
In the Pomeranian Voivodeship, the largest university units have their own Technology Transfer Centers.
Key Stats
“Tricity is the largest educational centre in the northern part of Poland”
The SEA-EU Project
The association aims to create an international, multi-ethnic, multilingual and interdisciplinary European University of the Seas, which will be a transmitter of innovation and knowledge transfer. Firstly, university units share a cultural and economic maritime tradition. The project aims to deepen maritime knowledge and scientific research. Thanks to the presence of these universities, the European University of the Seas will cover the northern, western and southern facades of the European continent.
Higher education
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Gdańsk University of Technology
GUT is the second most frequently chosen technical university every year.
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University of Gdańsk
The university is one of nine belonging to the European Maritime University.
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Medical University of Gdańsk
The university, from abroad, was chosen by 16% of its students!
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