The Czech branch of Siemens awarded the Werner von Siemens Prizes 2023 to the best students, young scientists, and teachers. The first place in the number of awards went to the Czech Technical University in Prague, with all six awards going to the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the CTU. This is followed by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (5 winners) and Brno University of Technology (3 winners), Palacký University in Olomouc and Masaryk University (2 winners each), Charles University and the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice (1 winner each). The expert juries selected winners from 496 applications, 20 awardees shared one million crowns. Women accounted for 29% of the total entries and 25% of the prize winners. Along with the students, the supervisors and mentors of their work also received a prize.
The 31st annual Olověný Dušan student competition has its winners. The jury evaluated the projects created at Faculty of Architecture in the winter semester. The best architectural project is Housing Libeň by Eliška Cibulková, the award was also given to Markéta Dvořáková and Petr Brancuský in the Design category. Císler-Pazder's studio scored among architectural studios, and Fišer-Nezpěváková in the category of design studios.
The Czech Siemens awarded the Werner von Siemens Prizes 2023 to the best students, young scientists and teachers. The winning works from the fields of engineering and science were selected by expert juries in the categories of best basic research result, best thesis, best dissertation and best teacher. Along with the students, the supervisors and mentors of their theses also receive a prize. Awards were given for excellence in female research, for overcoming obstacles to study and for graduate theses on Industry 4.0 and Smart Infrastructure and Energy.
Postgradual education in healthcare has been undergoing a major change since last spring, which concerns not only the administration of teaching, but the administration of the whole process. For a year now, the Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education (IPVZ) has been successfully working on a key project of an innovative information system for the administration of healthcare professionals' education. The project therefore bears the working title "Administrator", and since it is not only about fundamental changes in the area of administration and information processing, but also about complex technical solutions, the IPVZ has concluded a Memorandum of Cooperation with Faculty of Information Technology of Czech Technical University in Prague (FIT CTU). By signing the Memorandum, both parties create a framework for close cooperation, especially in the area of technological development of the application platform of the project "Administrator" itself.
The well-known presenter and founder of DVTV Martin Veselovský spoke with students and employees of the faculty on 5 March 2024.
The Czech Industry Analysis 2024 published by the National Centre for Industry 4.0 (NCP 4.0) maps the level of digital maturity in a sample of 328 companies from the Czech Republic. These companies have undergone an independent DigiAudit, a technology-independent methodology developed by NCP 4.0 that can serve as a first step to set an effective strategy for digitalization and innovation in companies. The last chapter of the Analysis is dedicated to a very topical issue, namely sustainability, which will soon translate into mandatory ESG reporting. 86 companies participated in the ESG survey. Thanks to digitalisation, companies will be able to report more efficiently. The results of the survey also show that digitalisation and data analysis open the way for companies to new business opportunities.
The Faculty of Electrical Engineering of CTU is part of the largest international trade fair for electrical engineering, automation, communication and security in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. At Amper 2024, which takes place from 19th to 21st March 2024 at the Brno Exhibition Centre, researchers will present technological solutions such as Define Instruments software, an acoustic gunshot sound detector, or a magnetic field display.
Members of the Department of Theoretical Computer Science at FIT CTU presented their two scientific papers at the prestigious international conference AAAI 2024 (The Thirty–Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence), which is considered one of the most important conferences in the field of artificial intelligence with the highest rating of A*. The AAAI conference is known for its demanding peer review process. In the competition of more than 12,000 scientific articles, less than 20% of the submitted papers were selected for the main part of the conference, two of them were from scientists from FIT CTU. This year's conference welcomed participants in February in Vancouver, Canada.
The Cybernetics and Robotics study programme at CTU Faculty of Electrical Engineering has just opened the second year of a unique course How to Make (Almost) Anything. The concept of practical education in the field of digital manufacturing and rapid prototyping is not new; it has been promoted for many years by the prestigious American university MIT. The course leaders at the Prague FEL CTU have now teamed up with another DIY powerhouse - the Maker Institute, a non-profit platform that is an interdisciplinary project of CTU and ICT.
Ninety-five female high school students from the Czech Republic and Slovakia took part in the Become a Scientist for a Day event on Friday 9 February.

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