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At the beginning of this year, FIT CTU as the main coordinator received the prestigious European PoliRuralPlus grant for almost six million euros. 20 European partners are involved in the three-year project, prepared with other Czech partners such as CCSS and Plan4All. The main objective of the project is to improve and support the sustainability of regional development through the use of artificial intelligence working with spatial data.

CTU Space Research is the first university team in the Czech Republic to design, test and build high-performance rockets and other space technologies. Under the auspices of the Rector of CTU and the Dean of CTU Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Prague, enthusiastic male and female students work together to develop the propulsion, construction, avionics and design of the rocket. The offer is varied and unique in the Czech Republic so far, thus attracting interested students not only from CTU but also from other Czech universities.

The aim of the research led by the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University (CTU) and in cooperation with the Bosch in České Budějovice - Robert Bosch spol. s. r. o., the French EURECOM University and the University of Oulu in Finland, launched this year, is semantic communication and information processing from industrial machines using machine learning for sixth generation (6G) mobile networks.

It started with playing computer games to relax after school and ended with winning 100,000 CZK in a competition and a job offer on the top. That is how one could sum up the journey of Ondřej Baštař, a third-year student of the bachelor's programme in Cybernetics and Robotics (KyR) at FEE CTU, who won the Vrgineers competition. The task was to program an image processing algorithm for a VR headset on a graphics card, which is used to train pilots in augmented reality.

Twenty future transport pilots from Ukraine are currently studying in the Czech Republic. The training takes place in cooperation with F Air. From the summer semester onwards, CTU in Prague will be an independent guarantor of their training and the number of students will increase to twenty-five. The project, to which the Czech Republic contributed from the Reconstruction Programme for Ukraine, was presented during a meeting between the Rector of the National Aviation University in Kiev (NAU) Volodymyr Šulha and the Rector of CTU Vojtech Petráček. The meeting was attended by Minister Jan Lipavsky on behalf of the Czech government, and representatives of the Ukrainian and American embassies were also present - the USA also financially supported the project.

The Computerworld magazine annually brings a list of successful personalities from the domestic IT scene. At the end of the year, Computerworld publishes the medallions of the selected three dozen personalities who deserve to be known in the extensive special TOP IT Personalities. In the current TOP IT selection, FIT CTU has even a double representation of doc. Ing. Pavel Kordík, Ph.D., and Ing. Jiří Chludil.

The delegation of National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University led by its president, Prof. Chi-Hung Lin, M.D., Ph.D, visited the Czech Technical University in Prague on Wednesday, January 10, where it was received by the CTU management team led by the rector doc. RNDr. Vojtěch Petráček, CSc.

57.4 million tonnes of electroning waste was produced globally in 2021, with total production growing at an average of two million tonnes per year. Yet only 17.4 percent of e-waste is collected and properly recycled. Preparing an alternative process for the production of electronic components that will be more environmentally friendly is the goal of researchers from the Department of Electricotechnology at FEL CTU and the Institute of Polymers at the ICT Prague. Polymers used for 3D printing appear to be a promising material for replacing very difficult to recycle epoxy resins.

Apply for the EU-funded I&E programme and become part of the international EIT Manufacturing community. This is a unique opportunity not only for those who have innovation and entrepreneurial ambitions in life, but also want to gain new knowledge and experiences with colleagues from other European universities and improve their soft skills.

The project "SUNFLOW biodynamic circadian LED floor lamp" has been announced as one of the winners of the international Lighting Design Award 2023 in the category of table and floor lamps. It was realized by a team led by Dr. Jan Havlik from the Department of Circuit Theory in cooperation with the University Centre for Energy Efficient Buildings (UCEEB) of CTU, Spectrasol Ltd. and the National Institute for Mental Health. The principal investigator of the project for the CTU is Ing. arch. Lenka Maierová, Ph.D. from UCEEB CTU, the task of the researchers from the Department of Circuit Theory was to develop the hardware and software of the control unit of the whole lamp.