News

2024/11/14
On 21 November 2024, the inaugural of EuroTeQ Day will take place on the campuses of EuroTeQ partner universities. This unique event aims to celebrate collaboration between universities and the exceptional quality of education in Europe.
The exposition of CTU in Prague is traditionally unmissable at the Gaudeamus education fairs. This will also be the case in Brno, where the fair starts on 19 November. In addition to a variety of exhibits, visitors will be able to find the most important things: information about all nine educational units and the unique CTU organisations helping students.
Come to the Masařka Club at Masarykova Dormitory on 27.11. for a seminary with moderated discussion. The event is intended for PhD students, junior scientists and researchers, project managers and administrators, R&D department staff.
Registration for the EuroTeQ online Course Catalogue for the summer semester 2025 is open until November 29.
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!

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.