ABOUT THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES CENTRE

The New Technologies Centre (Centrum Nowych Technologii – CNT) is a separate research and development unit in the organisational structure of MPWiK S.A. in Wrocław. A basic goal of CNT is a broadly understood technological development of the company in order to improve efficiency of water and wastewater treatment processes for the sake of the environment.

The Centre cooperates with scientific and business communities, among others with one of the biggest research and development institute in the world ITRI from Taiwan, the Wrocław Research Centre EiT+ (Wrocławskie Centrum Badań EiT+), the biggest in Poland scientific-industrial consortium „Instytut Autostrada Technologii i Innowacji” (IATI), under which it manages the activity of the Competence Centre „Water and Environment” (Centrum Kompetencji „Woda i Środowisko”)

The CNT – team is composed of highly skilled engineers and research staff. In only four year this team has implemented several dozen research and development tasks and projects. For the implementation of particular tasks are appointed the project teams, which analyse in many ways the different issues.  Alongside the New Technologies Centre operate also the Advisory Board and the Scientific Committee as advisory bodies in the field of cooperation with the City and universities.
The Centre has its own research resource in form of two pilot research stations which were founded under the research and development projects co-funded from the National Centre for Research and Development (NCBiR) and implemented in cooperation with the Wrocław University of Technology and the Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences.

The activity of CK WIŚ include the following areas:

– Engineering and environment protection

– Water and wastewater management

– Techniques and technologies of water and wastewater treatment
If you represent an institution related to the abovementioned areas and you are interested in participation in activities of the Competence Centre, please contact us at: centrum.kompetencji@mpwik.wroc.pl. More about IATI: www.iati.pl or call 691 900 272

The Scientific Committee was established in 2012 and it is situated at the New Technologies Centre.                                                        

It is an advisory body of the Management Board of MPWiK S.A. the New Technologies Centre. The aim of the Committee is:

•  Providing scientific and technical assistance to the Centre and the Management Board of MPWiK which shall contribute to the highest level of the strategy implementation and the statutory work of MPWiK.
•  Supporting cooperation between business units and academic community to promote transfer of knowledge from science to practice of business activity carried out by MPWiK.
  The members of the Committee are outstanding and recognized prominent persons with a scientific degree representing the biggest universities of Wrocław, whose scientific and research profile corresponds to the scope of the Committee’s activity. The Committee includes also the representatives of MPWiK S.A.

The Scientific Committee indicates the areas of possible synergy of university research programmes and the needs of MPWiK S.A. in the municipal sector, identifies the possibilities to acquire resources for certain projects and for external funding, identifies the areas for improvement enabling better implementation of the objectives pursued by MPWiK S.A.

Contact: komitet.naukowy@mpwik.wroc.pl

  ADVISORY BOARD

The Advisory Board at the New Technologies Centre is an advisory body of the Wrocław Water and Sewerage Company, which is composed of representatives of the Municipal Office of Wrocław.
Aim of the Board is:

• Providing advisory support to the Centre and the Management Board of  MPWiK S.A., which shall contribute to the highest level of the strategy implementation and the statutory work of MPWiK S.A.
• Supporting strategic and technological development of MPWiK S.A. in close connection with the needs of the Commune of Wrocław and coordinating the actions of MPWiK S.A. with business partners of the Commune of Wrocław for a harmonious development of the City of Wrocław.

Contact:

rada.programowa@mpwik.wroc.pl

We encourage you to contact people whose land and buildings belonging to our company may be an interesting point of research, as well as those who wish to enrich their academic work on information from the Wroclaw’s water supply. If interested, please read the Terms of sharing information on MPWiK for scientific purposes.

Below you can download the rules with attachments. A request for information on MPWiK for scientific purposes must be completed electronically  or in writing with characters printed and then signed and:

• Send to the following address: MPWiK SA New Technology Centre 50-421 Wrocław ul. Na Grobli 14/16
• or submitted in person at the Office of MPWiK, which is housed in the reception building (Building D) at ul. Na Grobli 14/16 in Wroclaw.

In the EBC – project each year participate water and sewerage companies from all over the world.
Aquabench is an association of German speaking water and sewerage companies. Its business profile is similar to EBC with which it also cooperates. Its offer includes separate benchmarking projects concerning both the key processes and supporting the business activity of water and sewerage company.