Reports

On September 29th, Radio Rector began its operations with its first broadcast.

The Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU) has selected five winning projects in the first edition of its Interdisciplinary Near Future Challenge (INFC) grant competition. The program fosters collaboration among early-career researchers across CTU, enabling them to pursue ambitious ideas at the intersection of different disciplines. A total of 32 project proposals were submitted by 64 researchers from 11 CTU faculties and institutes. Each of the five selected projects brings together two principal investigators from different CTU units. Through the program, their teams will receive up to CZK 6 million over two years.

Four scientists from the Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU) have secured prestigious JUNIOR STAR grants from the Czech Science Foundation (GA ČR). Only 35 out of 316 project proposals were selected for funding in this year's highly competitive call. Each researcher can receive up to CZK 25 million for a five-year project, enabling them to pursue their own research ideas and build independent research teams.

What artificial intelligence tools can students and staff at CTU use? What rules apply to their use, and where can one find verified information? The new CTU AI portal brings together an overview of tools, recommendations, and practical guides in one place. Ondřej Vaněk, CTU’s Chief AI Officer, outlines its key benefits.

On October 28, at a formal ceremony held in the Vladislav Hall of Prague Castle, Prof. RNDr. Olga Štěpánková, CSc.—from the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics at the Czech Technical University (CTU)—received the Medal of Merit from the President of the Republic, Petr Pavel. She was honored for her contributions to the state in the field of technology.

Marta Miklušáková holds a degree in Social Work from the Faculty of Arts at Charles University (graduating in 1997). Subsequently, at her home department, she taught courses on Human Rights and Ethnic Minorities for several years.

Do you want to gain international experience, discover new approaches, and study at prestigious European universities—all without leaving CTU? Take advantage of the courses offered by the EuroTeQ alliance for the 2026/2027 summer semester. Choose from a diverse range of international courses across various fields and take your studies to the next level.

Summer schools are an excellent opportunity to explore a new environment, deepen professional knowledge, and build connections with students and experts from around the world. One such opportunity is the Eindhoven Semicon Summer School at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Netherlands—one of the partner universities in the EuroTeQ alliance. What experiences did Petr Junek, a student from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (FEL), bring back from Eindhoven? What surprised him the most, and why would he recommend such an opportunity to others?

Krisztina Szilágyi’s academic journey has taken her from native Serbia to Cambridge, Berlin, Utrecht and now Prague. At the Faculty of Information Technology CTU, she works at the intersection of mathematics and theoretical computer science, studying problems in graph theory and algorithms. Her Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship proposal is now funded through the ERA Fellowship scheme. In this interview, she talks about different academic cultures, inequalities in science, the value of theoretical research and why sometimes proving that there is no fast solution is a result in itself.

Barbora Zezulková holds a degree in Business Economics and Management from the Faculty of Management at the Prague University of Economics and Business (VŠE). She has a long-standing history of collaboration with CTU (Czech Technical University in Prague); she spent eight years at the Department of Computer Science (Faculty of Electrical Engineering), serving first as a grant administrator and later as the department secretary.