The Faculty of Information and Communication Technology (FICT), the largest institution of this type in Poland, was officially opened on 15 September at Wrocław University of Science and Technology. FICT consists of 12 fields of study and as many as 5 thousand. students, 8 departments and 400 academic teachers. We'd like to warmly welcome everyone.

– Works on launching the new faculty lasted a year and I am very grateful to all those who were involved in this process – says Professor Arkadiusz Wójs, rector of Wrocław University of Science and Technology. The ICT faculty has been building its position of the strongest centre in Poland for a long time, but now we will be able to communicate it more effectively to potential candidates or to the economic environment – he added.

The new faculty will conduct research in the rapidly developing fields of computer science related to Industry 4.0. As a result, it will be able to provide students with modern didactic tools that respond to socio-economic needs. The faculty will conduct both basic and implementation research, focused on active cooperation with economic entities and on the commercialization of results.
In the 2021/2022 academic year, twelve fields of study will be launched, covering the entire scope of ICT.

– The faculty is present not only in Wrocław, but also in the two branches of our University in Lower Silesia: in Wałbrzych and in Jelenia Góra. The mayors of these cities made endeavours to start the Technical Computer Science field there, and we managed to do it. We can already confidently say that when it comes to the fields of study, we cover the entire scope of the industry related to ICT – adds prof. Tadeusz Więckowski, rector's representative for the organization of FICT.

As part of the changes at Wrocław University of Science and Technology, two other faculties were established: the Faculty of Management and the Faculty of Electronics, Photonics and Microsystems.