GET TO KNOW EKSOC!

Please find out a short presentation about the Faculty of Economics and Sociology. Students and coordinators interested in mobility exchange at our Faculty are welcome to take a look at our infosheet.

Staff:

The Faculty of Economics and Sociology is the largest of the twelve faculties at the University of Lodz. More than 500 employees work here, almost 400 of whom are academics. Among the academic staff, there are more than 40% of habilitated doctors and people with the title of professor. Scientific and teaching activities are carried out within eight institutes. Many of our graduates and academic teachers have held or still hold honorary positions in the public life of Poland and the institutions of the European Union.

Highest quality of research and education:

In 2017, we were once again awarded an "A" category in the classification of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

Educational offer:

After Poland's accession to the European Union, the role and importance of higher education institutions increased even more. We currently have one of the best educational offers in central Poland in terms of economic and social sciences. The studies offered at our Faculty are very popular among high school graduates - we currently have about 5,000 students studying with us, which is more than 12% of all students at the University of Lodz. We educate at 16 majors in the full-time and part-time system, at all levels of education: bachelor's degree, master's degree, as well as third-degree (doctoral) and postgraduate studies. Classes are held in Polish and English. We also dynamically support the activity of young people in the student government and more than a dozen scientific circles operating in our environment.

Scientific activities:

The Faculty of Economics and Sociology is currently conducting multidirectional scientific research work in Poland and abroad. We organize dean's lectures, to which we invite the most prominent representatives of economic sciences and humanities known in Poland and abroad.

Foreign cooperation and scholarships:

The Faculty is involved in many international research grants and projects. We cooperate with many universities from Europe, North America, South America and Asia. 
We are pleased to open the way for our students and staff to pursue international careers by enabling scholarship opportunities under the Erasmus+ program to 33 partner countries, a scholarship opportunity under the Josai Central European Scholarship Program to Josai Universtity in Japan, and participation in seminars in Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico and Russia under the Summer School program. Our faculty has been very popular with foreign students for years. In 2018, we hosted more than 550 students of international mobility programs, most of them - the Erasmus+ program.

Modern facilities:

The faculty has modernly equipped computer labs. Lecture rooms and multimedia equipment at the disposal of students and staff are constantly being upgraded. The Faculty has recently launched two specialized laboratories.

Logistics Laboratory. The laboratory (T-204) designed for students of logistics meets the requirements of the State Accreditation Commission.  Equipped with basic elements of warehouse infrastructure, i.e. barcode reader and warehouse racks, it serves to develop the knowledge and skills of students, who can use specialized software and equipment in it. Pallets have been placed in front of the room to reflect the tools students will use after graduation. The studio is the heart of logistics at the Department. Students use two software applications: Macrologic Xpertis - an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system with modules such as logistics, production, finance, HR and payroll, and Macrologic Merit - process management with BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation) type business process models.

REFINITIV RESEARCH ZONE workshop (THOMSON REUTERS). The REFINITIVE RESEARCH ZONE (E-106) allows access to reliable, up-to-date and accurate information from more than 400 stock and OTC markets as well as FX market data for 175 currencies, industry reports, commentary, analysis and forecasts, as well as a variety of tools for analyzing currency, equity and commodity markets along with powerful Microsoft Excel financial functions. It is equipped with 12 computer workstations with Thomson Reuters Eikon 4 application installed, allowing students to access real-time and historical data, news reports, fundamental fundamental data, macroeconomic  as well as analytical tools and calculators. The studio hosts Thomson Reuters Academy classes, where students learn the principles of financial markets, basic methods of analysis and, above all, keep up to date with global economic events. Students have the opportunity to pass the Thomson Reuters Eikon Certification which is an international certificate issued by Thomson Reuters.

The Faculty provides constant access to the Internet at wi-fi points, as well as through the Edu-Roam network. The Faculty has one large department-wide library. The campus houses two buffets, a cafeteria, as well as two coffee islands.

Our Faculty is the biggest at the University of Lodz – we have 5000 students and about 400 academic teachers. Our staff consists of highest ranking scientists and outstanding practitioners, almost every fourth of them bears the rank of associate or titular (full) professor.

Our University, among eight other Polish universities, earned a position in the QS University Rankings: Emerging Europe and Central Asia. We are also mentioned in the Times Higher Education ranking.

The Faculty was established in 1965 – we have a long tradition and half a century of experience in teaching and doing research.

We provide the highest quality of research and teaching. Our Faculty was granted the highest “A” category by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland.

Our Faculty combines exact sciences with humanities. Research and didactic work is conducted within eight institutes: Institute of Logistics and Informatics, Institute of Econometrics, Institute of Economics, Institute of Finance, Institute of International Economics, Institute of Sociology, Institute of Spatial Economics, Institute of Statistics and Demography.

The Faculty’s staff successfully manages international grants and research projects in the country and abroad. We cooperate with over 50 universities from Europe, North and South America and Asia.

Among our graduates are ministers in Polish government, politicians, diplomats, representatives of local authorities, heads of banks and financial institutions.

We are the most internationalised faculty of the University of Lodz. Every year our  programmes attract more and more foreign students and visiting scholars.  

The Faculty regularly hosts prominent people of science, media and business who give guest lectures and conduct workshops.

We have a great location, right in the centre of Lodz.

Traditions of economic and sociological research circles in Lodz date back to 1920s when the Higher School of Economical and Sociological Sciences was founded. Thanks to the initiative of the Rector - Profesor Teodor Vieweger, the first building (today’s D building) was erected in 1937.

The 1945 decree establishing the University of Lodz proposed the formation of three faculties: the Faculty of Humanities, the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and the Faculty of Law and Economics. The last of them included Departments of Economics as well as Economic Policy and Statistics.

On the basis of the branch of Warsaw School of Economics in 1950 the Higher School of Economics was founded. Within the Higher School of Economics one could find such fields of study as Economics of Industry, Finance, Commodity Science and subsequently Trade and Commodity Science.

In 1965 the Faculty of Economics and Sociology was created at the University of Lodz. It combined the academic staff of the Higher School of Economics and a number of departments of the Faculty of Law and Economics of the University of Lodz. 

The first Polish School of Econometrics was founded in the end of the 1970s as the result of the cooperation between Professor Władysław Welfe and the Nobel Prize winner, Professor Lawrence Klein. In the 1990s Professor Wielisława Warzywoda-Kruszyńska began her research on the social exclusion in the conditions of poverty. Thus the Łódź School for Research on Poverty and Social Assistance was created.

In 2005 the first interdisciplinary seminar - Summer School with 20 participantes took place, thanks to the initiative of Professor Ryszard Piasecki. The number of participants of recent editions grew significantly up to 80 people.

Works of modernization and expansion of the Campus were in progress for 10 years.  The largest of the building was erected as well as the great lecture theatre which seats over 400 people. Nowadays classes are conducted in the Modern Informatics and Econometrics Centre. The project has been partly financed by the European Union with the means of European Regional Fund - the Programme Infrastructure and Environment in 2010.