- We have changed the name Piotrowo to the Warta Campus to emphasise the link between the school and the river ? says Prof. Adam Hamrol, Rector of the Poznań University of Technology.

Today, the university owns more than 20 ha of land upon Warta. In the nearest future, it wants to purchase another 10 hectares. All faculties and functions of the university are to be concentrated by the river. In the future, the Warta Campus would fall within the limits set by Kórnicka Street, Jana Pawła II Street, Warta Relief Channel and Cybina River flowing into it.

The university started constructing its buildings by the river in the 50s of the 20^th century. In 1954, in Piotrowo, the socrealistic seat of the Faculty of Construction was erected. In the 60s, students moved in the dormitories at Zamenhofa Street (today Jana Pawła II Street). A decade later, the school built two modernist buildings accommodating the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. The former has a characteristic clock on the roof.

For another Warta investments, the university had to wait until the turn of the centuries. In 1999, the University Senate outvoted construction of the Lecture Centre and Technical Library. Prof. Marian Fikus designed them in such a way that from three passages you can see the City Hall, Cathedral and Bernardine Church.

However, some buildings are still scattered around the city: at Strzelecka Street, in Wilda and at Nieszawska Street in the vicinity of Os. Warszawskie. Three years ago, the University authorities decided that further development of the university would be continued by the river only.