Reports

Bc. Huu Quy Nguyen, Student of Faculty of Information Technology of Czech Technical University in Prague (FIT CTU), focused in his bachelor thesis on creation of a recommender system for optimizing the monitoring of live streams of elephants at the Prague Zoo. This system can help viewers to choose the most suitable camera for tracking elephants and also makes the work of keepers easier by automating the tracking of elephants' position during the day, which they used to do manually. This project was developed in collaboration with Prague Zoo, which had previously approached FIT with the possibility of collaboration. This work earned Huu Quy Nguyen the Dean's Award.

On Wednesday, 6 November 2024, the faculties and units of Czech Technical University in Prague, together with the charitable organization Recruitment of Heroes and the Czech National Bone Marrow Donor Registry, organized a unique recruitment of bone marrow donors.

To mark the 20th anniversary of our country's accession to the European Union, the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic organised a pub quiz for university students. The CTU round took place at the Betlémská Club on the evening of 4 November; the best two teams to advance to the final round were teams from the MIAS and CTU FEE.

Institutions operating in Prague's Dejvice Campus have agreed to cooperate in ensuring the safety of their students and employees. After the December events at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University, strengthening security became a priority for the management of the universities at Dejvice burough, the National Technical Library, the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and Prague 6 district. Outcome of the concern is the Memorandum on Mutual Cooperation in Dealing with Crisis Events in the Dejvice Campus Environment, which was signed jointly by the statutory representatives of the two institutions on 1 November.

Researchers and representatives of participating institutions gathered to officially launch the CEDMO 2.0 NPO at Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU) project on Wednesday, 23 October 2024. The aim of the project is to increase the resilience of Czech society against disinformation, especially with the help of artificial intelligence tools. It is funded by the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic from the National Recovery Plan. The project leader is CTU and other participants include Charles University, Masaryk University, Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Press Office and Demagog.cz.

How to plan, monitor and evaluate scientific data more effectively? How can scientists save up to 70% of the necessary administrative work on their projects? CTU Faculty of Information Technology (CTU FIT) is participating as a partner in one of the key parts of the European Open Science Plan-Track-Assess Pathways (OSTrails) project under the Horizon Europe programme in collaboration with 38 partners, which aims to streamline interoperability and machine processability of research planning, tracking and evaluation under the European Open Science Initiative (EOSC).

Three university orchestras presented themselves to the audience in the Bethlehem Chapel, the festive auditorium of the CTU, on 29 October. The audience was also greeted by representatives of all three universities - Vice-Rector Jan Polák for Charles University, Rector Milan Pospíšil for Institute of Chemical Technology Prague, and Rector Vojtěch Petráček for the Czech Technical University in Prague.

The 106th anniversary of the founding of the independent Czechoslovak Republic was traditionally commemorated today by CTU Rector Vojtěch Petráček at Hradčany Square, where he laid a wreath at the statue of the founder of our modern democratic state, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk.

It all started in July 2023, when the head of the Prague Maidan Integration Centre Galyna Andreytsiv asked Dr. Ladislav Serédi to lead the programming courses. In its Creative HUB in Nusle, Prague Maidan supports Ukrainian youth to spend their free time safely, interestingly and usefully. The main goal is to provide a friendly environment where Ukrainian young people can forget about the war and adapt to the Czech environment.

In the first nine months of their collaboration on the European research project PoliRuralPlus and the national research project ALIANCE, Faculty of Information Technology of Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU FIT) and the Plan4all Association (P4A) together with their partners have achieved breakthrough results in the field of Earth Intelligence and Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI). GeoAI is becoming a key tool for the analysis of data generated by our planet. The unique combination of artificial intelligence and geospatial data has led to world-class innovations that have direct applications in agriculture, forestry, crisis management, public health, spatial planning and even environmental protection.