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How can we help you

What we offer

Comprehensive assistance in R&D activities

Solution tailored to your needs

We have the best scientists and unique research equipment unparalleled nationwide. In proposing a solution to your technological problem, we focus on your needs. To tailor our solution proposal as closely as possible, please contact us.

what else can you gain

Our team constantly monitors the instruments for financing R&D work in Poland and Europe. We follow competitions and programmes which could provide financing of a significant portion of the R&D expenses. On behalf of our partners, we also look for consortiums with which they can undertake the most ambitious projects, financed, for example, by Horizon Europe.

The Łukasiewicz network of laboratories carries out a whole range of tests and certifications for almost all industries. If you need this kind of service, contact us using the Ask for an Offer form and we will find the right team and infrastructure.

We work for many clients, so a number of technology solutions have already become our standardised products. By working with us, you gain access to the entire range of technology solutions that have already been developed and tested.

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Our areas of activity

What are our areas of activity?

Defence and national security

  • Technology development for greater technological and industrial independence
  • Development of automation and autonomy technologies
  • Development of alternative energy, propulsion, construction and operational technologies in transport
  • Development of other key technologies for national security

Chemistry for industry

  • Sustainable and zero-emission chemical processes
  • Industrial biotechnologies, bioeconomy and new functional materials
  • Chemical recycling
  • Hydrogen as a chemical raw material
  • Transformation of the industry

Energy transition

  • Renewable energy sources (RES)
  • Energy storage
  • Smart Grids
  • Energy efficiency

Circular economy

  • Sustainable materials and raw materials
  • Innovative recycling technologies
  • Water management
  • Technical, technological and environmental safety
  • Eco-design

people and organisation

Management

Our organisation

With 7000 employees and 22 research institutes located in 12 cities; we are one of the largest research networks in Europe.

We are the part of science that works for entrepreneurship and supports the development of Polish companies. Operating under the Science is Business formula, we meet entrepreneurs and offer solutions that help improve business and create technologies that change reality.

Łukasiewicz is an embodiment of Polish aspirations to be a partner for the best European and global experts, in the worlds of both science and entrepreneurship. As a result of our work, Polish research units are becoming leaders in international R&D projects, and the companies working with them are implementing new technologies faster and more effectively, funded by programmes such as Horizon Europe.

Achievements

See our completed projects

meet Ignacy Łukasiewicz

Our patron

The patron of our research network is Ignacy Łukasiewicz, born in 1822 in Zaduszniki – Polish pharmacist, entrepreneur, social and patriotic activist, philanthropist and pioneer of the oil industry.

1852

Łukasiewicz, together with Jan Zeh, carried out the world’s first distillation of crude oil using scientific methods.

1853

The first operation using artificial light was carried out in a Lviv hospital. The light was Ignacy Łukasiewicz’s kerosene lamp.

1854

Together with T. Trzecieski, Łukasiewicz founded the first oil mine in Bóbrka near Krosno.

1856

He founded the world’s first oil distillery in Ulaszowice near Jasło.

2022

The Sejm of the Republic of Poland declared 2022 the Year of Ignacy Łukasiewicz.
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