Institute of Quality Science
The Institute of Quality Sciences commenced its activity on 1 October 2019 and continues the tradition and legacy of the Faculty of Commodity Science. The Institute comprises four departments: the Department of Food Quality and Safety, the Department of Non-Food Product Quality and Packaging Development, the Department of Natural Science and Quality Assurance, and the Department of Technology and Instrumental Analysis.
About Institute of Quality Science
The Institute researches the natural, environmental, social and economic aspects of quality. This research includes the design, development and assessment and protection of the quality of food, non-food products and packaging in all life cycle phases, considering consumer needs and the impact on the environment. The research work is interdisciplinary, covering issues from management and quality sciences, food and nutrition technology, materials engineering, chemical engineering and chemistry. The research topics are in line with current trends in science and address critical economic and social issues, for instance, related to sustainable production and consumption development, closed-loop economy, and Industry 4.0 and Quality 4.0. The Institute has modern laboratories equipped with unique research apparatus. Research is conducted in cooperation with many national and international research centres. Results are published in prestigious international scientific journals and are the subject of many patents. The Institute cooperates with enterprises by offering support and consultation in research and development works, performing research and expert opinions, and providing training. The Institute’s staff teach the quality sciences in the courses Quality and Product Development and Management and Production Engineering, where students acquire interdisciplinary knowledge of social and natural sciences and engineering competences.
Prof. dr hab. Ewa Sikorska
- Institute of Quality Science Director of the Institute
- Department of Technology and Instrumental Analysis Head of Department
- Professor
Director of the Institute
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First place in the 29th PUEB Foundation competition for the best bachelor’s and engineering thesis
In the competition, first place was awarded to the thesis titled “Detecting Human Faces Generated by Artificial Intelligence Models”, authored by Patryk Danielewicz and supervised by Prof. Krzysztof Wecel.
AI Transformations: Artificial Intelligence in Detecting Fake News
The fourth seminar on artificial intelligence and digital transformation was devoted to the issue of automatic detection of fake news. During the meeting, a research team from the Department of Information Systems presented the results of the OpenFact project.
Scientific seminar by Ewelina Księżniak on content authorship verification in the context of fake news dissemination
During the seminar, issues related to stylometric methods of lie detection, coding of stylometric features, profiling of authors and susceptibility of people to fake news were discussed.
Adapting blockchain architecture to the requirements of public business registers in Europe
A scientific article dedicated to the application of blockchain technology in public business registers in Europe was published as open access. The research focuses on developing a multifaceted approach to selecting and implementing blockchain-based solutions in databases that hold legal and economic significance.
PUEB became member of EURAXESS European network supporting young scientists and their families in foreign mobility
The Poznań University of Economics and Business has become a member of the EURAXESS European network supporting young researchers and their families in overseas mobility and research career development as part of the European Sustainable Knowledge Society.
Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for Digital Transformation (video)
The recording of the lecture entitled “Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for Digital Transformation” by Prof. Witold Abramowicz, Advisor to the Rector for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation, has been published on YouTube.
Dr hab. Milena Ratajczak-Mrozek, prof. UEP, dr Aleksandra Hauke-Lopes, dr Marcin Wieczerzycki, together with dr hab. Maja Sajdak, prof. UEP published a paper “Guiding entrepreneurial ecosystems towards sustainability: identifying key changes and future research directions” in the „Journal of Organizational Change Management” (Impact Factor 2.7).
Exploring the Challenges and Potential of Generative AI
A paper by our scientists has been published under open access. As part of this work, an experiment was conducted to examine to what extent content generated by GenAI can be considered reliable and how easily GenAI can be manipulated into producing misinformation.
Call for Workshops and Events Proposals at the BIS 2025 conference
The BIS 2025 organizers invites scientists and practitioners to organize workshops and events (e.g., symposium, consortium meeting, project dissemination meeting, special session, etc.) to be held in conjunction with the conference, taking place on June 25-27, 2025 in Poznań, Poland.
CyberEXPERT 2024: Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing for Cybersecurity (video)
Prof. Witold Abramowicz participated as a panelist at the CyberEXPERT 2024 conference. During the conference, our scientist also gave a lecture entitled “Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for Digital Transformation”.
2nd International Scientific Conference of the UEPB Institute of Management ” Sustainable Organization Management”
Two hundred participants from thirty universities and a dozen enterprises took part in the 2nd International Scientific Conference of the UEPB Institute of Management " Sustainable Organization Management" on October 23-24, 2024.
Generative curiosity. How is generative AI changing creativity and innovation?
The full version of the inaugural lecture by Prof. Marek Kowalkiewiczhas been published in open access. The lecture focuses on the importance of generative artificial intelligence (AI) for human creativity and innovation.
Universities supporting digital transformation using artificial intelligence in Ukraine
The Poznań University of Economics and Business hosted a session as part of the Good Practices Stage on the topic of “Universities supporting digital transformation using artificial intelligence in Ukraine” during the Common Future Congress for Reconstruction of Ukraine.
Mgr Maciej Bartkowiak Awarded Grant in Young Scientists Competition (Młodzi Naukowcy)
Mgr Maciej Bartkowiak has been awarded a grant in the Young Scientists Competition for free participation in the 52nd Conference on Applications of Mathematics, held from September 16 to 21, 2024, in Kościelisko. The grant was funded by KGHM Polska Miedź and SAMSUNG.
Combining recommender systems and language models in early detection of signs of anorexia
An article by our scientists has been published in open access. The work describes the approach that obtained the best result according to the ERDE metric in the international competition for early risk prediction on the Internet - eRisk 2024.
Visit of the Vice-Rector of the partner University of Economics in Varna
Prof. Bistra Vassileva, PhD, the Vice-Rector for Research, Innovation, and Academic Staff Development of the University of Economics – Varna, Bulgaria, our partner, visited Poznań Univeristy of Economics and Business from 6th to 10th of September.
Participation in an international competition in the area of analysis of multi-author writing style
Our scientists took part in an international competition on the analysis of multi-author writing style – PAN 2024. The research resulted in an article “Team OpenFact at PAN 2024: Fine-Tuning BERT Models with Stylometric Enhancements”, describing the author’s approach.
Panel discussion at the Wikimania 2024 conference (video)
During the international conference Wikimania 2024, a panel discussion entitled “Keynote: Opening the Academia” took place, in which Dr. Włodzimierz Lewoniewski participated. The panel concerned the topic of open science and its various aspects.
Success and bankruptcy of cryptocurrency exchanges – analysis using open data
The work of our scientists on the analysis of digital currency exchanges has been published on the Springer website. As part of the research, models for predicting the success and bankruptcy of cryptocurrency exchanges were developed, based on data collected from open Internet sources.
Conference Workshop on Survey Statistics 2024
The BNU Workshop on Survey Statistics 2024 will be organized in August 26-30, 2024, in Poznań, Poland. The workshop will be of a hybrid type, connecting in-person participation in Poznań and online participation for those registered participants who cannot attend in person.
OpenFact is again the most effective in detecting fake news
The OpenFact project implemented by our scientists received the highest number of points and a positive assessment after the second phase of the project. Thus, it repeated the success from a year ago, when after the first phase it was also rated the best among all teams participating in the program.
PUEB in the 3rd place in the most important Polish ranking
The Poznań University of Economics and Business has once again earned the title of academic medalist among Polish economic universities, taking the 3rd place in the prestigious ranking of universities prepared by the Educational Foundation "Perspektywy".
Workshops on fake news during the Poznań Science and Art Festival
As part of the 27th Poznań Festival of Science and Art, workshops on fake news detection were held. During the event, participants had the opportunity to learn how to distinguish fake news from real information and what tools they can use to verify content on social media.
Article by prof. Krzysztof Echaust in International Review of Financial Analysis [Impact Factor = 8.2]
The journal International Review of Financial Analysis published an article by prof. Krzysztof Echaust, written in co-authorship with dr Małgorzata Just and prof. Agata Kliber, titled. "To hedge or not to hedge? Cryptocurrencies, gold and oil against stock market risk".
Positive programme evaluation for our fields of study
The Presidium of the Polish Accreditation Committee, by resolutions of 21 March 2024, awarded two fields of study: Economics and Finance, Auditing, Investment, conducted at the PUEB at the first- and second-degree level, a positive programme evaluation for a period of six years.
Professors Beręsewicz and Szymkowiak appointed to task force at UNECE
Dr. Maciej Beręsewicz, Prof. UEP, and Dr. Marcin Szymkowiak, Prof. UEP, from the Department of Statistics at the Poznań University of Economics, have been appointed to the Task force on defining and measuring new forms of international migration at the Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) for 2024-2026.
Awards for our students in the Eurostat competition “The Web Intelligence – Deduplication Challenge”
Students of Informatics and Econometrics - Mikołaj Tym and Jakub Żerebecki (2nd degree, 1st year, speciality: Information Systems for Business and Administration) - took part in the competition "The Web Intelligence - Deduplication Challenge" organized by Eurostat.
Professor Elżbieta Gołata elected Chairwoman of the Committee on Demographic Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences for the term 2024-2027
On March 7, 2024, the inaugural meeting of the Committee of Demographic Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences was held in the new term 2024-2027, during which elections to the Committee's Presidium were held.
Seminar on the quality of multilingual Wikipedia and its information sources
An open scientific seminar of the Institute of Informatics and Quantitative Economics entitled "Automatic quality assessment of multilingual Wikipedia articles and identification of its important information sources on various topics" took place at our University.
Using BI and GenAI tools in business data analysis
The open lecture led by Ihor Muzyka, Head of Analytics at the Żabka Group, was an opportunity to learn more about how the choice of role and position affects the development of a career path in analytics, which data analysis tools are chosen by modern organizations.
Machine learning in business
Professional experience shows that the tasks of an expert in the field of machine learning go beyond the process of creating models. So what else needs to be done and what is “Ops” all about? These and many other questions were answered during an open lecture by Jacek JankowiakDuring the presentation, participants had the opportunity to explore the process through which the machine learning model (ML) in the business context, learn about popular ML models used in companies and techniques that are recognized in the professional environment. The speaker also explained how to translate complex machine learning concepts into a language understandable to non-professionals, which allows for wider use of these technologies in the organization. Jacek, sharing his personal experiences, also gave advice on how to effectively function as a data analyst and how to gain recognition in this field.
Professor Beata Woźniak-Jęchorek appointed to EAEPE council
The European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE) has recently appointed Professor Beata Woźniak-Jęchorek to its council for the 2024-2026 term. The council consists of eminent scholars from the UK, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Australia, and Spain.
Measuring Americanization in different regions of the world using multilingual Wikipedia and Wikidata
The research paper entitled "Quantifying Americanization: Coverage of American Topics in Different Wikipedias" was published in the Social Science Computer Review journal. This is the first quantitative study that confirms various theories about Americanization and related phenomena often discussed in scientific literature.
Green and digital transition in the EU – international seminar
The international seminar “Green and digital transition in the EU” is going to be held on January 17th, 2024 at the Poznań University of Economics and Business (Poland), as part of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence (JMCoE) "Resilient and transforming Europe" (Transform EU) activity.
COVID-19 pandemic and war in Ukraine: impact of crises on maritime transport
The article by employees of the DIS was published in the journal "Networks and Spatial Economics". This work focuses on analyzing the impact of global crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, on maritime traffic and their effects on the global and local economies.
Awards in the 28th PUEB Best Diploma Theses Competition
Theses written under the supervision of scientists from Department of Information Systems received awards in the 28th edition of competitions for the best bachelor’s, engineering and master’s theses defended at the Poznań University of Economics and Business in the academic years 2020/2021, 2021/2022, 2022/2023.
Scientific sources of information in various topics and language versions of Wikipedia
The article by employees of the Department of Information Systems PUEB was published on the ScienceDirect website. As part of the scientific research, hundreds of millions of references in Wikipedia articles from various language versions were analyzed to identify scientific sources of information.
Webinar on identifying important sources of information on Wikipedia
The analysis of over 60 million Wikipedia articles allowed the identification of over 330 million references to sources. Based on the use of various evaluation models, rankings of the most important sources of information for each language version of the encyclopedia were prepared.
“Workbook for Microeconomics. Exercises and Solutions”- Springer’s publication by prof. Krzysztof Malaga and dr Karolina Sobczak-Marcinkowska
A book authored by Karolina Sobczak-Marcinkowska and Krzysztof Malaga was published: "Workbook for Microeconomics. "Workbook for Microeconomics. Exercises and Solutions".
Awards in the 26th Competition for the Best Diploma Theses in the field of Business Informatics
In this year's edition of the NTIE competition for the best diploma theses in the field of business informatics, PUEB supervisors and graduates took first places in each of the three categories: bachelor's, master's and doctoral theses.
Employees of the Department of Operational Research and Mathematical Economics in the Scientific Committees of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN)
Prof. dr hab. Krzysztof Malaga and dr hab. prof. Marcin Anholcer, prof. UEP were elected as members of two Scientific Committees of the Polish Academy of Sciences for the 2024-2027 term: Committee on Economic Sciences of PAN and Committee on Statistics and Econometrics of PAN.
Article by prof. Krzysztof Echaust in Research in International Business and Finance [Impact Factor: 6.5]
The journal Research in International Business and Finance published an article titled "Cryptocurrencies against stock market risk: New insights into hedging effectiveness," co-authored by dr hab. Krzysztof Echaust.
An article by prof. Krzysztof Malaga in the journal Ekonomia i Prawo. Economics and Law
The journal Ekonomia i Prawo. Economics and Law published an article entitled "Changes on economic freedom in 11 post-socialist countries of Central-Eastern and South-Eastern Europe in 1996-2022," co-authored by prof. dr hab. Krzysztof Malaga.
Article by dr hab. Helena Gaspars-Wieloch in Central European Journal of Operations Research
Article by dr hab. Helena Gaspars-Wieloch, titled "Possible new applications of the interactive programming based on aspiration levels - case of pure and mixed strategies" was published in Central European Journal of Operations Research.
Presentation of the OECD 2022 Economic Survey of Poland with the participation of the Deputy Secretary General of the OECD
On February 28, the Poznań University of Economics and Business hosted a prestigious conference devoted to the presentation of OECD 2022 Economic Survey of Poland. The report for 2022 was personally presented by the Deputy Secretary General of the OECD - Yoshiki Takeuchi, who came to Poznań to participate in the conference.
