Reports

Matyáš Boura has won the fourteenth edition of the competition with his project Housing Olšanská, on which he worked in the Kuzemenský studio. The jury appreciated the urban form, material concept and layout. The announcement of the results took place on Thursday 27 February at CTU Faculty of Architecture.

On Monday, 3 March 2025, the Minister for Science, Research and Innovation Marek Ženíšek visited the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics – a leading scientific research institute of the Czech Technical University in Prague. The Minister met with a group of top researchers in the field of artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics with an international reputation, who discussed with him mainly issues of research funding and management. The programme also included a visit to the RICAIP Testbed Prague experimental laboratories, where he learned about the latest technologies and their application in industrial practice.

On Thursday, 27 February, a conference was held by the Reflex magazine and the e15 magazine titled Defence and Security. The programme was divided into three parts - Financing the defence industry, Dialogue between the state and industry in the context of current security threats and The future of the Czech defence industry. Vojtěch Petráček, Rector of CTU, was among the discussants in the second part.

Visitors to the Josef Underground Laboratory, which includes the Josef Adit, operated by the Centre for Experimental Geotechnics of Faculty of Civil Engineering of Czech Technical University in Prague, will have a unique opportunity to learn about the story of the adit's creation as told by the miners who worked there. Guided tours will explain the origin of the workplace and visitors will also learn from the staff of the Centre of Experimental Geotechnics about its current use for teaching, science and research at CTU FCE.

As part of the ongoing WEEE Aware/WEEE Lives campaign, the Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU), the lead partner of the Circular WEEEP project, significantly influenced young minds by visiting 16 school classrooms and engaging approximately 480 students in discussions about e-waste and the circular economy.

Thanks to the initiative of Ing. Hoang Dieu Hung, Ph.D., a graduate of CTU, our university was introduced to almost three hundred high school students from the Vietnamese community. The event was held on Saturday, 22 February, at the Dong Do Convention Center in Sapa, Prague, and was also attended by other universities.

At a time of growing demand for clean energy sources, nuclear power is becoming an indispensable part of the energy mix. Its importance in the context of the need to decarbonise is growing. However, the sector faces a major challenge - a shortage of qualified professionals.

The National Accreditation Office (NAO) has approved seven follow-up master's programmes in teaching to be implemented at five faculties of CTU in Prague. The new programmes, focused on teaching general education and vocational subjects, are intended to help address the shortage of qualified teachers in secondary schools. The project was created as part of the National Renewal Plan with the aim of linking vocational teaching with modern pedagogical approaches.

The ESN (Erasmus Student Network) team, consisting mainly of Czech students and volunteers from CTU, organized an Orientation Week from 10 to 16 February 2025, during which we welcomed newly arrived foreign students who will study at our university this semester.

After the success of last year's event, the Project Day at CTU is becoming a tradition. The faculties of CTU in cooperation with the Prague 6 Local Action Plan (MAP 6) and the Prague 6 district once again welcomed hundreds of students who experienced the fascinating world of technical fields first-hand.