Reports

The first four doctoral candidates supported by the prestigious PICTUS program have arrived at the Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU). CTU is implementing this program following its success in the European Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions COFUND competition. CTU is the only institution in the Czech Republic to have secured support from this program this year, which aims to attract top-tier young scientists from around the world.

The Faculty of Civil Engineering at CTU in Prague is restructuring its Civil Engineering study program. Starting in the 2027/2028 academic year, the Bachelor's program will be three years long, and the Master's program two years. This change will facilitate study abroad opportunities while enabling graduates to enter professional practice sooner and more easily.

Autonomous navigation in challenging terrain, night-time operations, and supplying military units without direct human control. Researchers from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU FEE), together with the University of Defence and VOP CZ, successfully tested the autonomous capabilities of the TAROS unmanned ground vehicle during the international military exercise ARTEX 2026 in Portugal. Over two weeks, the platform covered more than 100 kilometres, including several dozen kilometres autonomously. A major achievement was its participation in a resupply mission in which the operator merely supervised the vehicle's operation.

Effective science communication helps bring research beyond university walls, make science accessible to wider audiences, and open up new opportunities for collaboration and career development. This winter semester, CTU is launching SciComm Lab, a series of hands-on workshops designed to help researchers develop their communication skills.

The National Centre for Industry 4.0, part of the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics, received the BVV Trade Fairs Brno Award at the 2026 International Engineering Fair for its long-standing support of the event and the development of the Digital Factory 2.0 project. The award serves as significant recognition of this year’s exhibition and the long-term collaboration between research institutions and industrial partners, who jointly showcase technologies and services for the modernization of Czech industry.

Once again this year, the Czech Technical University in Prague will be showcasing itself at the Gaudeamus post-secondary education fair in Brno. From October 20 to 23, it will offer visitors to the Brno Exhibition Centre an engaging program featuring interactive exhibits, modern technologies, and inspiration for future studies. Aligned with the vision "Solving Challenges Yet to Come," the university will demonstrate how technical education and cutting-edge research help address current and future societal challenges and deliver solutions with a real-world impact on everyday life.

This week, a delegation from the top leadership of TalTech (Tallinn University of Technology), led by Rector Tiit Land, visited CTU.

On October 1, four deans from faculties of CTU and Charles University signed an agreement at the Mayor's Residence to extend the prg.ai Minor program until 2030. The signing took place during a certificate presentation ceremony, where 31 students from the sixth cohort completed the program, which integrates artificial intelligence education across both universities. This brings the total number of certificate holders to 140. The program admitted 80 new students this year.

What would a portrait look like that mirrors your smile, head movements, or even subtle changes in expression in real time? Visitors to this year’s Signal Festival will be able to experience this firsthand thanks to FaceIt technology, developed with the participation of scientists from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at CTU. This interactive installation is based on research by Prof. Daniel Sýkora’s team and is capable of transferring a person’s facial expressions onto a stylized portrait in real time. Another major contribution from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering will be the audiovisual projection *EFORCE: DNA of Winners*, which highlights over fifteen years of development of CTU’s student formula race cars. Visitors can find both installations from October 15 to 18 on Technická Street in Dejvice: FaceIt on the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering building and EFORCE on the façade of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering.

The CTU Digital Library has migrated to the modern DSpace 9 platform, representing the latest generation of the world's most widely used open-source system for building digital libraries and institutional repositories.