On Thursday, 2 May, excursions and meetings with experts from Faculty of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Masaryk Institute of Advanced Studies were prepared for specific German academics.Later in the afternoon, a representative of Faculty of Mechanical Engineering also met with the German professor at the Rector's Office of CTU. A tour of the CIIRC and several of its departments followed a day later.
The highlight of the visit was the signing of the Memorandum of Cooperation - it was signed on behalf of RWTH Aachen by the Rector of the University Ulrich Rüdiger and Henriette Finsterbusch, Director of International Cooperation, and on behalf of CTU by the Rector Vojtěch Petráček and the Vice-Rector for International Relations Oldřich Starý.
After the signing, Rector Rüdiger recalled that the two universities had just promised to cooperate until May 2030, so he is looking forward to the interesting results and hopes to visit CTU before then. Rector Petráček pointed out that he will not be rector in 2030, but the cooperation just signed will certainly be successful and he will be watching it with interest.
RWTH Aachen University is already one of the most active universities cooperating with CTU outside the EuroTeQ alliance, including on the basis of double-degree studies.
With Faculty of Electrical Engineering, this partnership has been going on separately for over ten years, in a joint Master's double-degree program. The students involved are mainly students of the Medical Electronics and Bioinformatics programme in close cooperation with the Helmholtz-Institute for Biomedical Engineering, but students of Cybernetics and Robotics, Open Computer Science or the Electrical Engineering, Power Engineering and Management programme have also been among the outgoing students.
During the period of cooperation, more than 12 FEL students have gone to RWTH Aachen, 7 of whom have already successfully completed their double-degree studies. On the other hand, four students from Aachen have come to CTU and have also successfully completed their studies.
