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Sofia Lenskikh, UCT Prague,

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About the country

Location of the place

Lodz University of Technology is the one of the biggest technical universities in Poland. The university is cituated near the city centre.

City

Lodz is situated in the Central Poland, in 120 km from Warsaw.

Surroundings (possible trips, ...)

From Lodz you can go to Warsaw, Wroclaw, Krakow and Gdansk. Also you can travel to the other European countries (for example, Germany and Austria). The tickets to the bus costs from 5 euro.

Employer

I had my internship in the Lodz University of Technology, in the Institute of General Food Chemistry.

Work description

I was in of a project team working on the following projects:
- designing an electrochemical method system for determining tryptophan solution,
- molecular modeling of drug-protein and DNA interactions.
We used the methods fluorescent and phosphorent spectroscopy to analyse the interactions between lipase from A. niger and substrate.

Salary (sufficient for local conditions?)

The salary was 850 PLN (200 euro) per month, which is sufficient for the basic thing (of course not for traveling or so :) )

Language requirements

English was enough for work, but it will be useful tu learn some Polish words (for me it was quite easy to understand Polish, because I can speak Czech and Russian :) )

Accommodation (price, who provided it)

The University provided the accomodation in the dormitory Tygry. The accomodation was ok, nothing really special, but ok. There is two people in the room, the bathrooms are two on the floor.

Social life

Meeting IAESTE members (pick-up at the airport, organized events...)

Everything was great!

Meeting other foreign students

There were 3 IAESTE Committees in Lodz, so in total there were more than 60 interns from all over the world! There was lots of meetings with them, also I have met lots of new people in Warsaw. I did not spent a lot of time with others (but just because I am not kind of "party girl" :) ), but everyone was nice :)

Sport and culture

Sport: There are lots of gyms in the city, I went to the FitFabric. It was a bit expensive for Poland, but the gym was very nice.There are also some spaces for the workout in the city (on the streets).

Culture: There is some muzeums and cinemas in the city. And also it is good to visit Manufaktura