All workplaces and departments have participated in the financial donation in response to developments Ukraine, which is under attack. These funds have been earned by the faculty and its departments in recent years through their own economic activities. This is therefore not money from the state intended for teaching and for scientific activities, nor is it the result of a collection among employees or students. Employees and students contribute directly to public collections and are personally actively involved in supporting Ukraine.
"We could have used this money for instrumentation or technology, or we could have invested it in our employees, but we believe that there are certain moments when we have to make it clear that there are values such as freedom, human life and democracy that are supreme," says Prof. Petr Páta, Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague, who is proud of his students and employees spontaneously expressing their solidarity. "Our entire faculty stands behind our colleagues from Ukraine in this difficult moment, and we are ready to help actively," adds Dean Petr Páta.
Dean Pata knows a number of Ukrainian academics personally. FEE has close ties with the Faculties of Radio Technology and Electrical Engineering of the National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute" and with the Vasyl Stefanik Precarpathian National University in Ivano-Frankivsk.
In addition to this initiative, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague is directly supporting its students and employees from Ukraine. Among other things, it has decided to expand its ongoing Nikola Šuhaj scholarship program for Ukrainian students, so that four students from the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv will be able to participate in it. The Faculty has already accepted and supported the students, and expects that students from other partner schools in Ukraine will show interest in studying electrical engineering and informatics at Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague.
