Reports

The 30th anniversary edition of the college and university fair for high school students began on 19 November and will run until Friday 22 November. The CTU can be found at the Brno Exhibition Centre in Hall V, Stand 32.

The annual awards of the Employers' Club 2024 were presented at the Pyramida Hotel on Monday, 18 November. CTU in Prague was ranked silver in the category of School Recommended by Employers.

The 71st running race and the 61st Academic Cross Country Championships were held at the Hvězda Enclosure on Saturday, 16 November, 2024. The organizer of the run was traditionally the Institute of Physical Education and Sport of CTU (IPES), the race was held under the auspices of doc. Vojtěch Petráček, Rector of CTU in Prague.

At the FORMNEXT trade fair in Germany in the second half of November, experts from the Department of Materials at the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of Czech Technical University (CTU FNSPE) will present a unique bell, which was created thanks to the method of supersonic material deposition, known as "cold spray". The bell is intended to show that damaged historic bells can be repaired using this method without deteriorating their sound properties.

35 and 85 years. Two anniversaries of 17 November. Speeches, wreath-laying, remembrances began on a festive Sunday in front of the Hlávkova dormitory of Czech Technical University

Bc. Huu Quy Nguyen, Student of Faculty of Information Technology of Czech Technical University in Prague (FIT CTU), focused in his bachelor thesis on creation of a recommender system for optimizing the monitoring of live streams of elephants at the Prague Zoo. This system can help viewers to choose the most suitable camera for tracking elephants and also makes the work of keepers easier by automating the tracking of elephants' position during the day, which they used to do manually. This project was developed in collaboration with Prague Zoo, which had previously approached FIT with the possibility of collaboration. This work earned Huu Quy Nguyen the Dean's Award.

Brain research requires a fundamental change in research approach. A completely new direction was taken by research teams from four Czech research institutes, who joined with French and German scientists and succeeded together in a strong European competition. As a result, a completely unique interdisciplinary centre of excellence, CLARA, the first of its kind in Central and Eastern Europe, will be established in the Czech Republic over the next six years to focus on the development of a new generation of applications using artificial intelligence, computational modelling and quantum computing. The aim is to push the boundaries of research into neurodegenerative diseases, in particular Alzheimer's disease, by processing large-scale multidimensional biological and clinical data using powerful supercomputers and quantum methods. The centre has a total budget of CZK 1.1 billion (€43 million), with the European Union providing more than CZK 380 million (€15 million) under the Horizon Europe Teaming for Excellence programme.

Efforts to make materials and products more sustainable and less demanding of material resources and energy used in production and operation are already being promoted in all sectors of industry. The search for more efficient sources to power vehicles is a major challenge. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of Czech Technical University in Prague and the University of Chemical Technology in Prague have responded to this challenge by preparing unique study programmes: Sustainable Mobility - Drives and Vehicles (accredited at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of Czech Technical University in Prague) and Sustainable Mobility - Energy and Materials (accredited at the Institute of Chemical Technology in Prague).

Working in the power industry today requires graduates to have not only classical power engineering knowledge, but also knowledge of industrial ICT. Students of CTU Faculty of Electrical Engineering will be able to try out the most modern devices used in current practice during their regular teaching thanks to the newly opened PRE laboratory.

Martin Ševeček from CTU Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering and his team have successfully tested nuclear fuel coating materials that can provide operators with economic benefits and, in the extreme case, additional time to cope with a nuclear accident. Over the past year, he has been testing different variants of fuel rods at MIT, one of the best engineering schools on the planet.