Reports

CTU in Prague hosted part of the program for the opening meeting of the new season of the "Díky, že můžem" Academy. Eighty-eight secondary school students from 75 schools across the Czech Republic took part in the September weekend event, held under the theme "Do You Know Your Direction?"

The CTU Race Day kicks off on Tuesday, September 29, 2026, once again featuring a program packed with speed and technical innovations. The EFORCE Prague Formula team will showcase its autonomous electric formula car in action. An electric motorcycle from the CTU Lions workshop will also zip around the track, and the Green Gliders team will present their highly energy-efficient electric formula car. The event will take place on the Dejvice campus between 9 a.m. and 12 p.m.

A research group at the CTU Faculty of Biomedical Engineering aims to identify a more effective distribution of oncological care between comprehensive cancer centers and regional facilities by analyzing actual patient trajectories and employing artificial intelligence methods.

The EIB Advisory Services unit will support the Czech Technical University in Prague in the redevelopment of the student housing complex in Prague’s Strahov district, which has a capacity of up to 4,400 beds. The aim is to organize an international urban planning and architectural competition and transform the site into a university district offering accommodation, classrooms, laboratories, and other facilities. The EIB is participating in the project through the InvestEU Advisory Hub.

Ing. Tomáš Vízek has been working in the field of security for 30 years. He worked in various positions at the Police of the Czech Republic, of which he worked for 20 years at the Criminal Police and Investigation Service. After that, he joined the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute in the Department of Safety and Crisis Management, where he was subsequently appointed safety manager and safety director. After a career with the police and in the subject of critical infrastructure, he subsequently decided to transfer his experience to the academic environment.

The international team behind the Visual Object Tracking (VOT) initiative—which includes Prof. Jiří Matas from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at CTU as a key figure—has been awarded the 2026 PAMI Mark Everingham Prize. This prestigious award, recognizing outstanding contributions to the computer vision community, was presented to the team on September 12 at the ECCV 2026 conference in Malmö, Sweden. The jury commended over a decade of work on workshops and competitions that have fundamentally shaped how visual object tracking methods are developed and evaluated today.

Assoc. Prof. Ondřej Fišer, Ph.D., from the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU), participated as an invited speaker at the international NEXT AI 2026 forum in Wonju, South Korea. In his invited talk, he presented the journey from academic research at CTU through the transfer of scientific know-how and the establishment of the technology spin-off Tonagena to the development of a data-driven electroporation platform.

Robotics experiments, space technologies, virtual reality, biomedical demonstrations, modern construction methods, and interactive demonstrations of information handling—these and many other activities have been prepared by the Czech Technical University for participants in this year’s Researchers' Night. Almost all faculties and numerous university departments will actively participate in the program of this popular nationwide event on Friday, September 25, which will focus on the central theme of communication. Admission to the entire event is free.

The Czech Republic and the Republic of Korea have taken another concrete step in their scientific and technical cooperation in advanced robotics and manufacturing with the official opening of the Korea–Czech Advanced Robotics Center (KCARC) at the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics (CIIRC) CTU in Prague on September 21, 2026.

The Competence Center for Resilience (KCO) is being established at the CTU University Centre for Energy Efficient Buildings (CTU UCEEB); it is a new long-term development project focused on the preparedness and resilience of organizations as well as critical and strategic infrastructure. The center connects CTU specialists with experts from other organizations in the Czech Republic and abroad, creating a platform for collaborative research, development, education, and cooperation with industry.