and Food Sciences Business and Technology (BT) – in cooperation with the Faculty of Organization and Management Business Studies (BS) - in cooperation with the Faculty of Organization and Management Computer Science (CS) – in cooperation with the Faculty of Electrical, Electronic, Computer and Control Engineering Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering (ETE) – in cooperation with the Faculty of Electrical, Electronic, Computer and Control Engineering Gestion et Technologie (GT) - in cooperation with the Faculty of Organization and Management Industrial Biotechnology (IB) - in cooperation with the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Sciences Information Technology (IT) – in cooperation with the Faculty of Technical Physics, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Mathematical Methods in Data Analysis (MMDA) - in cooperation with the Faculty of Technical Physics, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Mechanical Engineering (ME) – in cooperation with the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Modelling and Data Science (MDS) - in cooperation with the Faculty of Technical Physics, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Foreign Language Centre The Foreign Language Centre of Lodz University of Technology was established in 1951. Since 2005, it has been located in a former factory building on Aleja Politechniki 12 in Łódź. The building was modernized and furnished with new facilities with the aid of the European Regional Development Fund (March 2004 – January 2006). The centre has 28 classrooms, a conference room and a library, and is the seat of the University of the Third Age of Lodz University of Technology. As of 2013, the Centre employed 72 academic teachers and 15 administrative, technical and maintenance employees. Languages taught at the Centre include English, German, Russian, Italian, French, Spanish and Polish for foreigners. In 2013, there were 6273 students learning at the centre. English courses comprised 89% of all the classes. The centre conducts classes for first- and second-degree, as well as doctoral students in accordance with the university curriculum, for participants in Socrates-Erasmus and IAESTE programs, students of the General Secondary School of TUL, students of the University of the Third Age of TUL, foreign exchange students from Cangzhou Vocational College of Technology (China) and foreigners who want to study at TUL. The centre is taking part in a program organized by the City of Lodz Office called “Młodzi w Łodzi – Językowzięci”, the aim of which is to promote learning languages that are less popular in Poland and to encourage students and graduates from Łódź to