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In June 2020, two years have passed, since the foundation of the organization that has been raised from the beginning on the community initiative of European scientists and institutions focused on artificial intelligence (AI) research. It currently brings together 375 research groups from 35 countries, with the support of more than 3,500 individuals, mainly leading artificial intelligence researchers, technologists and innovators. In the Czech Republic, CLAIRE has strong ties to the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics of the Czech Technical University in Prague (CIIRC CTU), which also runs its Prague office.

Medical and IT students celebrate success with the Smart Triangle app, which helps sort patients in hospitals based on the seriousness of their condition. In addition to students of the medical faculties of Charles University, Tomáš Trejdl from the Faculty of Information Technology (FIT) of the Czech Technical University is in the team of four creators of the application.

As part of a project supported by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, a test jamming of the GNSS signal was performed at Václav Havel Prague Airport and an investigation into the impact on aircraft avionics. The event was organized by the Institute of Air Transport of the Faculty of Transportation Technology with the cooperation of the Czech Telecommunication Office and Smartwings air company.

The University Center for Energy Efficient Buildings of the Czech Technical University (UCEEB) participates in the development of a mathematical model that will be used in the field of fire safety of buildings and finding out the causes of fire as an alternative or upgrade of physical fire tests.

Dozens of Czech companies, with the support of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, merged, developed and began mass production of the RP95-M mask during the coronavirus pandemic. The respirator, which provides the highest level of protection, was designed at CIIRC CTU for 3D printing. Production data can be downloaded free of charge with a free license, so the mask is already available in more than thirty countries around the world. In physical form, this Czech protective device can now spread even further, as it now has European certification.

The development of electronics and computer technology encounters physical limits, when it is almost impossible to further reduce the size of individual elements and thus increase their efficiency and performance. Breaking these limits is promised by mastering quantum technologies. These intersect in many areas from quantum physics, through information and communication, nanomaterials and nanostructures, quantum photonics, optics and plasmonics, new laser generators, new materials with unique properties, to mathematical physics and modeling. The newly accredited doctoral study program Quantum Technologies at the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague (FNSPE) is dedicated to this wide range.

Experts from the University Center for Energy Efficient Buildings of the Czech Technical University designed, manufactured and tested the first prototype of a combined solar collector for heating the water / air pair of heat transfer agents.

Although access to workplaces in connection with the COVID-19 epidemic was limited, the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague had decided to present its scientific workplaces of interest to high school students, but also to other curious parties.

Asymbolic check of a special financial collection was organized by the Czech-Israeli Mixed Chamber of Commerce (ČISOK) for the Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU) on 11 June 2020. The collection was announced at the beginning of April and by the end of May, the chamber managed to collect CZK 607,000. The donation will be used for a project of improvised full-face masks for first-line physicians, in which CTU cooperates with the COVID19CZ working group.

All trams of the Prague Transport Company (DPP) will have new receivers that will allow them to receive signals from the Galileo, GPS, Glonass and BeiDou navigation systems. Experts from the Department of Radio Electronics at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University (FEE) are involved in their implementation.