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2024/10/02
The 16th annual sales exhibition of foreign technical books from prestigious publishers NOV@ 2024 will be held in the week from 4 to 8 November. The exhibition will be held at the FEL Café (Technická 2, Praha 6 Dejvice). The opening ceremony will take place on 4 November at 10:00. The opening speech will be given by doc. Ing. Jiří Hozman, Ph.D.
The 27th annual Werner von Siemens Prize is again accepting applications in the categories of Best Thesis (55,000 CZK), Best Dissertation (70,000 CZK), Most Outstanding Basic Research Result (300,000 CZK) and Best Teaching Fellow (50,000 CZK).
2024/09/05
Are you already looking forward to winter fun? Are you looking for a suitable location for skiing, ski slopes, cross-country skiing, snowboarding, ski alps... Are you eager to know students across all faculties? Then go to the mountains with CTU Institute of Physical Education and Sport (ÚTVS)!
The Jan Opletal Awards are an initiative of the Student Chamber of the Council of Higher Education (SK RVŠ) and Thanks that We Can movement and represent the highest national student and youth awards. They are awarded in three categories, namely for outstanding contribution during high school studies, for active involvement in the academic community within the university administration and for civic engagement (personalities under 30 years of age).
Czech Technical University in Prague offers a new fellowship program, the CTU Global Postdoc Fellowship. This new and attractive two-year fellowship-program offers excellent researchers who have recently completed their PhD the chance to continue their research career at CTU. Closest Application deadline: June 15, 2023 or August 31, 2023 or November 30, 2023.
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Representatives of the faculties of civil engineering, electrical engineering, nuclear sciences and physical engineering, transportation sciences, biomedical engineering, information technology and the Masaryk Institute of Advanced Studies travelled abroad this week to the 27th annual Gaudeamus Slovakia fair in Bratislava to provide Slovak secondary school students with comprehensive information, advice and maximum support in their choice of university studies.
Masaryk Institute of Advanced Studies at CTU in Prague once again welcomed a group of students from foreign universities as part of the project - International Project Workshop (IPW), this year with the motto "Experience the World of Business". This is the third year of the successful project, which allows students to look into the environment of large companies, test the knowledge gained from lectures in practice and at the same time teaches them to work in a team and understand different cultures.
Czech Technical University in Prague is ranked 4th among Czech universities in the latest edition of the World University Rankings for 2025, published by the British company Times Higher Education. In total, 17 Czech universities appeared in the rankings.
In her master thesis Automated video editing of beach volleyball matches, Ing. Justýna Frommová, a student of Faculty of Information Technology of Czech Technical University in Prague (FIT CTU), focused on the automation of data and video processing for the preparation of match tactics of elite teams in beach volleyball. She thus combined her studies with her passion for the sport she herself plays competitively. In collaboration with Beach Data, she created a system that automatically analyzes match videos.
With funding of €4 million from the European "MSCA Doctoral Networks" programme and additional funding of €600,000 through the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI), the European research project "UPright Radiotherapy, Learning, Innovation, and Training" (UPLIFT) is being launched to develop innovative solutions for radiation therapy with the patient upright - a change that could significantly improve global access to advanced cancer treatments. The project brings together Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of CTU in Prague (FJFI) with 14 leading scientific institutions and industrial partners from across Europe.