Reports
At the end of 2025, the two-year project "Supporting Green Skills and Sustainability at CTU in Prague" was successfully completed, significantly strengthening the role of sustainability in education, strategic management, and cooperation with the application sphere at this technical university. The project was implemented as part of Call 7.4 of the National Recovery Plan, which aims to support the development of green skills at universities, the adaptation of study programs to the principles of sustainable development, the creation of new and innovative subjects, the development of lifelong learning, and the institutional anchoring of sustainability in university management.
On January 5, 2026, Prof. Ing. Jiří Witzany, DrSc., dr.h.c., died at the age of 84 after a long illness.
Yesterday, President Petr Pavel, accompanied by Minister of Education Robert Plaga, presented appointment decrees to new professors. In the Great Hall of Karolinum, they were also received by associate professors nominated by the Scientific Council of the Czech Technical University:
The European Commission has approved the continuation of the EDIH CTU project – the European Digital Innovation Hub focused on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, coordinated by the Czech Technical University in Prague – for a further three years. The hub has successfully passed a demanding European evaluation and will receive continued support under the Digital Europe Programme. The decision confirms that EDIH CTU is among the key European players supporting the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises and the public sector in the Czech Republic. The partnership structure of EDIH CTU remains almost unchanged, as does its headquarters at the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics (CIIRC CTU), which also coordinated the preparation of this second phase of the project.
On December 16, 2025, the Academic Senate of the Faculty of Transportation Sciences at the Czech Technical University in Prague elected Doc. Ing. Stanislav Novotný, Ph.D., to the position of dean. Following his appointment by the rector, he will begin his first term in February 2026. Ten senators voted for him out of the nineteen members of the Academic Senate of the Faculty of Transportation Sciences at the Czech Technical University.
Yesterday, Vice-Rector Zbyněk Škvor (acting head of the university) once again handed out gifts to Ukrainian children, refugees from Putin's war, who are staying at the Strahov dormitories. He was joined by SÚZ Director Michal Vodička.
2025/12/16
On November 17, International Students' Day, the Czech Technical University in Prague awarded its best students the Stanislav Hanzl Prize. The students received the awards on November 25, 2025, at the Bethlehem Chapel during a gala concert of the Engineering Academy of the Czech Republic from Stanislav Hanzl, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the CTU Foundation, Doc. Dr. Ing. Václav Liška, President of the Engineering Academy of the Czech Republic, Doc. RNDr. Vojtěch Petráček, CSc. and the emeritus rector of CTU, Prof. Ing. Petr Zuna, CSc. D.Eng. h. c.
The Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU), DefSec Innovation Hub, Quanti, and the University of Defense presented a prototype of the AR RESCUE system at the CTU Faculty of Electrical Engineering (FEE CTU). A workshop with target users was held at the Department of Computers at FEE ČVUT with the aim of gathering ideas for the final phase of development.
On December 8, 2025, the Academic Senate of the Faculty of Nuclear and Physical Engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague re-elected Doc. Ing. Václav Čuba, Ph.D., to the position of dean. Following his appointment by the rector, he will continue his first term in office in February. All sixteen senators present voted for him.
The European Digital Innovation Hub at ČVUT succeeded in the prestigious AI Awards 2025 competition, held annually by the Česká národní AI platforma (CNAIP). Out of 120 nominations across six categories, the expert jury selected projects that best illustrate how artificial intelligence is becoming a practical tool shaping education, research, public administration, and business. The jury highlighted the internal knowledge chatbot ADAM, developed by EDIH CTU together with experts from the Český institut informatiky, robotiky a kybernetiky CIIRC ČVUT for the Auditní orgán Ministerstva financí to speed up work with extensive documentation related to EU funds.