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A technical school that trains for the Zone’s companies

  • Active
  • Since 2019
  • Education and workforce

The Henryk Grohman Automation and Robotics Technical School is the only secondary school in Poland run by an economic zone. Its students learn in the laboratories of Lodz University of Technology and do paid apprenticeships with the Zone’s investors.

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What TAiR is

In 2018 companies in the Zone could not find automation technicians. A study with the University of Łódź named the automation and robotics technician as the most sought-after occupation, so the Zone and its investors founded a school that teaches it. The first bell rang on 1 September 2019.

TAiR is a non-public school with the rights of a public one and the status of a pedagogical experiment: the occupation of automation and robotics technician exists in the Polish education system only here. Its governing body is Strefa Edukacji, the company of the Zone together with Miele Technika, Ceramika Tubądzin and Delia Cosmetics. Its academic partner is Lodz University of Technology, in whose laboratories the practical classes take place.

The model is dual. Students have their general subjects at school and their apprenticeships from the second semester of the third year in partner companies: Miele, Ceramika Tubądzin, Delia Cosmetics and Corning, with foreign internships at Miele’s plants in Germany and Barry Callebaut in Belgium. The apprenticeships are paid, and the best students receive scholarships from the partners. During the course students can earn SEP licences, the Siemens Mechatronic Systems certificate, Cisco Academy and Lean Manufacturing. In 2023 the first automation and robotics technicians in Poland left the school.

A student in a blue jacket leans over a laptop controlling a small robot arm, a classmate in a TAiR T-shirt beside him and a row of workstations with monitors behind them

What you gain

For a student it is an occupation factories are waiting for. For a company it is an employee it meets several years before the diploma.

A small robot arm draws the word TAiR with a pen on squared paper, a keyboard, monitors and a laptop on the school table beside it

  • Automation and robotics technician is a pedagogical experiment run only at TAiR. Graduates leave with the qualifications that Industry 4.0 companies have waited years for.

  • The practical classes take place at the university, on the equipment students will meet later at work and at university.

  • From their third year, students work at Miele, Ceramika Tubądzin, Delia Cosmetics and Corning. The best of them go on internships to Germany and Belgium.

  • SEP, Siemens Mechatronic Systems Certification, Cisco Academy, Lean Manufacturing and Business English. Papers that count in recruitment straight away.

  • Perspektywy Golden Shield 2026: number 32 among technical schools in Poland and number 3 in the Łódź Voivodeship. In 2024 the school was number 26 in the country.

TAiR in numbers

since 2019

  • No. 1school in Poland with the occupation of automation and robotics technician
  • No. 32place in the Perspektywy 2026 ranking
  • 168students
  • 2023the first graduates in Poland
  • 4partner companies for apprenticeships

European projects for students and teachers

The school’s development is financed by Strefa Edukacji’s projects from European Funds for Łódzkie 2021–2027 and the earlier Regional Operational Programme: four editions of “Kwalifikacje dla Przemysłu 4.0” (internships, CNC courses, certificates, teacher training) and smaller projects from the Rural Development Programme and the EOG Funds. Tuition at the technical school is paid; the school sets the fee.

Funded by the European Union.

Frequently asked questions

  • It is a non-public school with the rights of a public one. The certificates and the examinations are the same as in state schools, but you pay tuition; the school publishes the fee at technikum.io.

  • Recruitment runs every year through the Łódź admissions system for upper-secondary schools. The school publishes the current dates, profiles and thresholds in the recruitment section at technikum.io.

  • Automation and robotics technician and cybersecurity technician, including a cybersecurity class for girls. The older years also graduate as mechatronics technicians.

  • Yes. The school works with companies inside the Zone and outside it. Write to Strefa Edukacji, the school’s governing body, and we will agree the scope of the apprenticeship and any scholarship.

  • Because investors could not find automation technicians and the school system was not training them. Instead of sponsoring classes in other people’s schools, the Zone set up its own with its factories. No other zone in Poland has done that.

Questions about TAiR? Write to us

Student and admissions matters are handled by the school office: info@technikum.io, tel. 724 240 515. Companies interested in apprenticeships and partnership can start with a conversation at the Zone.

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