The scientific research also occupied, in 2017, a place of honor in the activities carried out at the Politehnica University Timișoara. During the year, hundreds of projects were started/carried out, within national, international, contracts with the economic environment and prestigious international conferences.
In the spring of 2017, an internal competition for research and development projects was launched, which provided funding for over 700,000 lei for young UPT researchers. Only young researchers up to 45 years old with the title of university assistant or head of works/lecturer could participate in the competition. 76 projects entered the competition 14 research fields in the UPT, the first in each field to be funded with at least 10,000 euros. For the first time, part of the funding is provided by the private sector and the rest of UPT's own funds, with the total budget of the competition being about 150,000 euros. A second round of the competition will take place in January 2018, when the projects in the non-winning places in the first stage will have the chance to be financed by economic agents interested in the respective research themes.
Under the „Planului naţional de cercetare, dezvoltare şi inovare - PN III”, in the year 2017 a number of 84 projects amounting to approximately 10,000,000 lei were implemented:
Also on December 3, 2017, projects within the Complex Program were realized in RDI consortia and structured as follows:
UPT ended, in 2017, 115 contracts with the economic environment, in the amount of 1,800,000 lei.
Also, the Politehnica University Timișoara implemented in 2017 a number of 30 projects with European funding of approximately 1.100.000 euro:
In the latter part of 2017, UPT won 2 new Horizon-2020 projects, projects to be implemented starting in 2018. The two projects cover areas of interest such as research in the field of chemistry with a focus on renewable energy and promoting international and trans-sectoral collaboration through the exchange of research and innovation personnel, respectively through the exchange of knowledge and ideas aimed at harmonizing the concept "from research to market "And vice versa. The value of these projects is approximately 500,000 euros.
Between September and December 2017, three prestigious international conferences were held:
As a crowning work, Professors Vasile Marinca and Nicolae Herişanu from UPT received on 15 December 2017 the "Aurel Vlaicu" Prize of the Romanian Academy in the category "Technical Sciences" for the monograph "The Optimal Homotopy Asymptotic Method Engineering Applications", published by the famous publishing house SPRINGER.