Reports

From April to December 2023, the staff of the Masaryk Institute of Advanced Studies of CTU in Prague implemented the international university cooperation project "Transfer of experience in urban development and renewal planning to Moldova" within the framework of the Czech Foreign Aid funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic and the Czech Development Agency.

In the prestigious IT SPY competition, the graduate of the Open Informatics programme of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of CTU, Ing. Pavlína Koutecká, under the guidance of Associate Professor Přemysl Šůcha from the Department of Control Engineering, proposed possibilities for better planning of surgical interventions in hospitals. Using the branch-and-price method accelerated by machine learning, her solution will bring significant savings in time and resources. The jury awarded Pavlína Koutecká's work with 2nd place.

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The leadership of the Czech Technical University in Prague is shocked by the events at the Faculty of Philosophy at Charles University, expresses its sincere condolences to the family and loved ones of the victims and its confidence that all who have suffered injuries will make a rapid recovery.

The Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the CTU has a double representation in the list of projects awarded the prestigious award of the Minister of Health for Research and Development. It was awarded to Associate Professor Jan Rusz, who researches speech disorders in patients with Parkinson's disease. With doc. Michal Novotný and Tereza Tykalová as members of his team. The award of the Minister of Health was also given to the team of Prof. Pavel Kršek (2. Faculty of Medicine, Charles University) for research on epilepsy, whose research team includes Dr. Radek Janča as a representative of the CTU FEE. All of the awarded researchers from the CTU FEE are from the Department of Circuit Theory.

In the week from 4 to 8 December, an excursion to see examples of good practice took place in Prague for a group of students and teachers from Alecu Russo State University in Balti, Moldova. This was prepared by academics from the Masaryk Institute of Advanced Studies of Czech Technical University in Prague as part of the Czech Republic's foreign aid to partners.

This year, the prestigious Generation Google Scholarship: for women in computer science was awarded to Daria Mikhaylovskaya, a student of the Open Informatics (OI) programme at Faculty of Electrical Engineering of CTU. The expert jury was impressed by the wide range of activities Daria Mikhaylovskaya is engaged in during her studies and the successes she has already achieved. The student works in the Humanoid Robotics Team at CTU Faculty of Electrical Engineering led by doc. Matej Hofmann.

Just like last year, CTU employees organized a collection for gifts for Ukrainian refugee children staying at the Strahov dormitory.

On Monday, 18 December, the building of CTU Faculty of Biomedical Engineering was lit up again. It was a relief for the soul in the pre-Christmas time.

Ing. Marek Suchánek, Ph.D. et PhD., is the first graduate of the Double Degree program at Faculty of Information Technology of Czech Technical University in Prague (FIT CTU) and Faculty of Applied Economics of University of Antwerp (FAE UA). He successfully defended his dissertation and received diplomas from his home and prestigious foreign partner university at the same time on 22 November, 2023. The University of Antwerp is currently ranked 280th in the global QS World University Rankings, while CTU is ranked 454th.