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The Structure Challenge "Hall of the Year" competition, organized by the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague, helps students better understand how loads affect structures and identify their weaknesses in practice. Depending on the category, the competition is open to high school students, undergraduate students in civil engineering programs, and doctoral students. Participants are tasked with designing and building a structural model according to the specifications and subjecting it to a load test during the finals. The competition will take place April 14–16, 2026, at the Faculty of Civil Engineering. The winning team is the one whose model achieves the highest efficiency, i.e., the best ratio between load-bearing capacity and self-weight. The event is held under the auspices of Dean Prof. Petr Konvalinka and ČKAIT, which also serves as a professional partner for students of the Faculty of Civil Engineering at CTU. The Department of Building Structures at the Faculty of Civil Engineering serves as the technical guarantor. The general partner of the competition is HOCHTIEF CZ, with support also provided by a number of other major companies in the construction sector. This year will set a record in the competition’s history in terms of the number of participating teams—87 teams are expected to compete in the international Academic category for university students, 17 of which are from abroad.
2026/04/10
We invite you to a colloquium with Bohdan Zronek, Member of the Board of Directors and Director of the Nuclear Energy Division at ČEZ, and Jiří Puchnar, Head of the EDU Management Support Group, on the topic “The Nuclear Renaissance: The Comeback of the Century,” with the subtitle “Opportunities and the Role of the New Generation of Engineers.” When? April 29, 2016 – 5:30 PM. Where? FJFI, Břehová 7, Prague 1, Room: B-103.
2026/03/23
Czech Technical University in Prague – International PhD Programme (PICTUS) will recruit a total of 23 PhD students for a full 48-month employment contract and enroll them in a specific PhD course.
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CTU welcomed Ph.D. candidate Sonia Martin from Stanford University, whose May lecture at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (FEE) focused on one of the central questions of sustainable mobility: how electric vehicles can be better integrated with the electricity grid. During her research stay, she also visited Škoda Auto, where questions of electromobility are playing out in practice. In this interview, she discusses vehicle-to-grid technology, the future of EV research, and why collaboration across disciplines, institutions, and industry matters.
On April 8, 2026, the Masaryk Institute of Advanced Studies at the Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU) hosted the fifth annual Automotive Day on the CTU campus in Prague’s Dejvice district, which saw the highest attendance in its history. The exhibition offered an overview of current mobility trends—from design and electromobility to autonomous technologies. The event was held under the auspices of Jakub Stárek, Mayor of Prague 6, and Prof. Michal Pěchouček, Rector of CTU.
The National Center for Transport 4.0 is being established at the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics, and Cybernetics at the Czech Technical University in Prague. It connects academia, industry, public administration, and local government, and supports the development of the digital economy in transportation and mobility. At the same time, it aims to accelerate the transfer of research into practice and contribute to the transformation of transportation toward data-driven, sustainable, and resilient mobility. Part of the center’s long-term vision is the creation of a national digital twin of transportation, which will enable comprehensive modeling of transportation and mobility in the Czech Republic and its integration with other sectors, such as energy, the environment, and urban planning.
What do wooden columns look like when exposed to a fire at 850 °C? How quickly does a fire engulf a baby stroller in a fire experiment? And what impact might this have on the evacuation of people from an apartment building? These and more than 200 other photographs from fire experiments, accompanied by popular science texts in both Czech and English, can be found in the book “The Power of Fire – Science Captured in Photography.” The project was developed in collaboration with specialists from the Department of Steel and Timber Structures at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, CTU, where the main initiator, Ing. Jakub Šejna, Ph.D., the CTU University Center for Energy-Efficient Buildings (UCEEB), where a significant portion of the experimental research took place, and photographer Jiří Ryszawy from the CTU Computing and Information Center. The book is available in PDF format free of charge to interested parties.
The EU RoboRoyale and SensorBees projects, which aim to use Bio-Hybrid Technology for Ecosystem Resilience, have been awarded the prestigious Sustainability Leadership Recognition in Robotics at the European Robotics Forum 2026, recognizing its pioneering contribution to sustainable innovation at the intersection of robotics and ecological systems. The award was accepted by Tomáš Krajník from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague.