The Gdansk University of Technology2 (GUT) was established in 1945 in Gdansk; it succeeded the technical university founded in 1904.3 Gdansk is a port city in northern Poland on the Baltic Sea coast and one of the largest business, economic, cultural and scientific centres in Poland. Named in honour of the 17th and 18th century scientists who lived in Gdansk – Johannes Hevelius and Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit – GUT considers itself as a technical university with imagination following motto “History is wisdom, future is a challenge”. GUT offers 33 undergraduate and 29 study programmes across 9 faculties and over 1 200 staff. In the academic year 2015/16 there were more than 25 000 full-time and part-time students. Part-time students accounted for nearly 13% of the student body, and foreign students for more than 2% of the overall number of students. Every year GUT has approximately 5 500 alumni: amongst them CEOs of large companies, persons holding high public offices, entrepreneurs, creators of well-known brands and renowned architects.
Leadership for Knowledge Exchange at the Gdansk University of Technology