Technikum Automatyki i Robotyki
The only technical school in Poland run by a Zone; it trains technicians for companies in a dual system.
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- Students and companies
Curricula written together with the industry
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- Since 2025
- Education and workforce
The Sectoral Council for Competences in Automation and Robotics is a nationwide forum of companies, universities and institutions that decides which skills the sector lacks and what schools and courses should teach. The Zone leads the consortium that runs the council.
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What the sectoral council is
The council trains nobody. It is an industry body: 22 people from 21 companies, universities and institutions who watch the skills the automation and robotics sector needs, publish research and issue recommendations for schools, universities and training companies.
The sectoral councils work within the system of the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development, under statute; there are 29 of them, one per sector. Automation and robotics is a new sector in the current wave, with no council before it. The consortium that runs it is made up of the Zone as leader, APPLiA Polska, the INDORO Employers’ Association, the Polish Chamber of Advanced Technology IZTECH and Łukasiewicz Research Network – PIAP. We signed the agreement with PARP on 25 April 2025, and the inaugural session took place on 22 May 2026 during the VIII Kongres AGD.
The council’s recommendations release real money. For every sector PARP picks a training operator that co-funds courses in line with those recommendations; for automation and robotics that is HRP Grants, with a budget of around PLN 14.9 million until the end of 2029. The council’s members include Miele Technika, Amica, Ciarko, Biazet, Daikin, Astor, Balluff, United Robots, Lodz University of Technology, Cracow University of Technology, the Conference of Rectors of Polish Universities of Technology, the Ministry of Funds and Regional Policy, and Technikum Automatyki i Robotyki.
What you gain
The council is where an employer tells schools and universities what it really needs, and where that reaches the curricula.
The council’s recommendations go to schools, universities and training companies. A company that reports a skills gap sees it later in the content of the courses.
The operator PARP selects co-funds courses from the council’s recommended list for companies in the sector. We will point you to where to apply.
The council publishes reports on staffing needs, among them the INDORO study “Kompetencje, potrzeby i wyzwania sektora automatyki i robotyki” (Skills, needs and challenges of the automation and robotics sector).
At one table sit household appliance (AGD) manufacturers, automation suppliers, universities of technology, chambers and the ministry. Contacts that otherwise take years to collect.
The partners signed their agreement at the VII Congress, and the council was inaugurated at the VIII. Its sessions and conferences come back in the congress’s rhythm.
The council in numbers
since 2025
- 21organisations on the council
- 5organisations in the consortium
- 29sectoral councils in PARP’s system
- 2029the council’s mandate runs to
Financed by European Funds for Social Development
The council’s work is financed by the European Funds for Social Development 2021–2027 programme (measure FERS.01.10 “Zadania Sektorowych Rad ds. Kompetencji”) within the system PARP runs, with 100% funding. The mandate to run the council holds until the end of 2029.
Funded by the European Union.
Frequently asked questions
No. The council decides what should be taught and issues recommendations. The operator PARP picks for the sector co-funds the training, and training companies listed in the Baza Usług Rozwojowych (the national Development Services Database) deliver it.
Apply to the operator for the automation and robotics sector that PARP selected under the programme “Kluczowe kompetencje dla sektorów” (Key competences for sectors). The operator co-funds courses from the council’s list of recommendations. Write to us and we will point you to the current call.
22 people from 21 organisations: manufacturers such as Miele Technika, Amica, Ciarko, Biazet and Daikin, automation suppliers (Astor, Balluff, United Robots), universities, chambers, the Ministry of Funds and Regional Policy, and Technikum Automatyki i Robotyki. The full membership is on the council’s website.
The consortium sets the membership under the council’s rules. Companies from the sector that want to take part can apply through automatykairobotyka.org or write to the Zone’s team.
Because household appliances and industrial automation are the Łódź Zone’s specialisations: the region has more than 40 companies in the household appliances (AGD) industry, half of them in the Zone, and the Zone runs its own automation technical school. Among the 29 councils in PARP’s system that is rare.
Questions about the council? Write to us
The Zone’s team, which coordinates the consortium, will tell you about the council’s work, its recommendations and the call for co-funded training. The council’s office: Rada.Sektorowa.AiR@sse.lodz.pl.
The council’s website
automatykairobotyka.org
Go to the council’s website (opens in a new tab or window)Other Zone projects
The council is the third rung of the Zone’s education ladder: the technical school teaches, the company trains, the council says what should be taught. See the other two, and the congress whose rhythm the council lives by.
Strefa Edukacji
A company of the Zone and its investors: its own technical school, training for companies and education projects.
- Active
- Companies and their workforce
Kongres AGD
An annual congress that brings the whole household appliances (AGD) industry to Łódź.
- Active
- Household appliances
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