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How to row a concrete canoe? Eleven teams from high schools from all over the Czech Republic will try their hand at the "Concrete Canoe" high school competition at Štěrkovište in Otrokovice. The event, which is designed as a traveling event, is organized this year by the Otrokovice Secondary Technical School. Students will compete in canoes that they designed and built themselves under the guidance of experts from the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague, including preparing the concrete mixture recipe. Teams must also demonstrate their skills in the areas of design, construction and hydrodynamics as part of the competition. The event will be supported by the city of Otrokovice.
The competition will take place on June 17, 2026 at Štěrkovište from approximately 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., and the event is open to the public.
On Tuesday, June 23, 2026, INFC Speeddating will take place, an informal meeting for researchers from CTU who are considering submitting a project to the new Interdisciplinary Near Future Challenge (CTU INFC) grant program.
On June 24, Prague's Dejvice will once again belong to science, namely Science for the Future. Almost all scientific disciplines will be presented in more than 100 exhibitions in a fun and playful way. This year's 14th year of VědaFest will once again offer, in addition to stands, thematic lectures for schools and a science show on the festival stage. It is open from 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. and admission is free.
Czech Technical University in Prague is launching a new grant program, ČVUT Interdisciplinary Near Future Challenge (ČVUT INFC). The programme will support ambitious interdisciplinary projects by early-career researchers who connect different areas of expertise across the university. Its aim is to give space to research ideas that go beyond the boundaries of individual disciplines or faculties and may lay the groundwork for new research directions at CTU.
Building on the success of our previous Summer Schools held in 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, we are pleased to announce the IEEE RAS Summer School 2026, which will take place from July 29 to August 4, 2026. As in previous years, the event will be hosted at the Czech Technical University, situated in the heart of one of Europe’s most beautiful and historic cities. The Summer School is dedicated to showcasing the latest advancements in Multi-Robot Systems research and is aimed at students, academic researchers, and industry professionals. The program seeks to bridge the gap between theory and practice, supporting the real-world application of cooperating robotic systems while fostering collaboration and knowledge exchange among participants.
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On Thursday, June 11, the newly renovated Block 3 of the Strahov dormitories was officially opened. The first major event to be held there will be next week’s major sporting event, the 2026 Children and Youth Olympics.
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The seventeenth year of the prestigious Czech-Slovak IT SPY competition opens registration for the best diploma theses in the field of computer science and information technology. Up to 1,500 diploma theses from Czech and Slovak universities enter the competition every year. Students and graduates of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague have long been among its most successful participants - over the past seven years they have won five first places and two second places.
European university leaders gathered in Brussels on 10 June for the European Universities Rectors High-level Meeting, organised by the European Commission. The event brought together Rectors, Presidents, policymakers, and representatives of the European Universities alliances to discuss the future of higher education cooperation in Europe.
On June 10, 2026, the 18th annual StreTech 2026 – High School Technology conference took place, held as usual at the Czech Technical University in Prague. This prestigious event is organized annually in collaboration with high schools and has been running continuously since 2007. Over the years, the StreTech conference has established a significant position among educational and outreach activities supporting high school students in their professional development.
The current leadership of the Czech Technical University in Prague is dominated by people who have managed to turn their idea into a successful startup, and it shows. One of them, Vice-Rector for Entrepreneurship, Jakub Nešetřil, introduced the emerging TRUE Venture Builder to potential investors at the first CTU Pitch Night - a new business support system that is intended to help promising projects from Prague's technical university transform their promising potential into a specific startup or spin-off.