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2024/10/30
The French Institute in Prague and the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MSMT) are happy to announce the new launch of the Barrande Fellowship Programme 2025, the exchange mobility programme for Ph.D. students between the Czech Republic and France.
The programme offers scholarships to support “cotutelles” and short-term research stays. Students have to be registered either at a Czech University (for mobilities to France) or at a French University (for mobilities to the Czech Republic).
All scientific fields are welcome!
2024/10/24
The CTU Symphony Orchestra would like to invite you to the Autumn Concert, which will take place in the Martinů Hall of the Lichtenstein Palace of the Faculty of Music and Dance of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague 1, Malostranské náměstí 13 on Tuesday 19 November 2024 at 19.00.
The faculties and units of CTU together with the charitable organization Recruiting Heroes are looking for new bone marrow donors. Our goal is not only to expand recruitment to the Czech National Bone Marrow Donor Registry, but also to raise awareness of the importance of donation. This is a unique event where on one day, namely 6 November 2024, six sites in Prague and Kladno will be available at Czech Technical University in Prague where interested people can register all day long.
This year's November Talks will focus on materials. With the subtitle "On Material", the Monday lectures will feature international architects. This year's edition will be opened on 4 November by Gilles Delalex.
On Monday 4 November 2024, a unique fundraising evening will take place in Prague's Bethlehem Chapel, with proceeds going to support educational projects in Africa and Asia associated with the Czech Technical University in Prague. The evening will combine a unique cultural experience with support for worthwhile projects.
Reports
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.
Small and medium-sized enterprises developing AI-powered technological solutions for industry now have a unique opportunity to receive significant financial support. Thanks to the TEF initiative and the European AI-MATTERS network, companies can take advantage of advanced industrial testbeds at leading technical universities in Prague, Brno, and Ostrava under exceptional conditions. In the Czech Republic, a budget of CZK 200 million from European and national sources has been earmarked for these purposes, which companies can draw on in the coming years for highly professional services.
2024/10/21
On October 15, 2024, CTU Erasmus Day took place in the atrium of the Faculty of Architecture. After being welcomed by the institutional coordinator, Mgr. Helena Houšková, the representative of the garagErasmus foundation from Italy, Ms. Ilarie Ballarini, presented the foundation's activities and the Erasmus+ Laissez-Passer competition with the possibility of winning 3000 EUR for students who share their experiences from a stay abroad. Then came the most important thing – information about the selection process for the Erasmus+ program.
The University Centre for Energy Efficient Buildings (UCEEB) of CTU in Prague has expanded its activities with another expert team INTENS (Industrial Thermal Energy Systems). The team focuses on the development and implementation of new energy efficient technologies for industrial energy and decentralised heat and power generation. The team leader is Jan Špale, who, thanks to a Fullbright-Masaryk scholarship, also worked on this topic at Purdue University in the USA as part of his one-year internship.