Reports

The first meeting of the Czech Ecosystem of Integrated Health and Social Care (ČEIP) was organized by the Czech Technical University in Prague at the National Technical Library on 4 May. During the event, the new platform was given support by representatives of ministries, universities, research centers, insurance companies, regions, cities, towns, patients, health care providers, investors, companies and associations.

Rector of the Czech Technical University in Prague, prof. Petr Konvalinka, signed a memorandum on cooperation between the CTU and Secondary Technical School in Prague 1 Dušní street during his visit to this high school and Higher Professional School of building on 4 May.

High school girl students were acquainted with selected work of some faculties of CTU in the Dejvice campus and Charles Square on 28 April under the Girls Day event. The laboratories of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Architecture and Faculty of Civil Engineering were made available for their inspection.

Leading science figures have met on 11 April at the Czech - German workshop on Industry 4.0. It was organized by CTU under the auspices of the Minister of Industry and Trade, Jan Mládek, and the Rector of the Czech Technical University in Prague, prof. Petr Konvalinka

A new generation of silicon carbid electronic components, which are considerably more durable than current silicon components, are developed at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering by team of prof. Paul Hazdra. Carbide components allow increase of the efficiency of production and transmission of electricity from renewable sources.

Graduates of the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Ing. Jakub Novák and Ing. Jiri Hanousek are thought to contribute to the development of cancer diagnostics from the values of tumor markers. Biant (Bayesian Intelligent Associative Network for Tumor Analysis), a unique system, can determine the types and likelihood of occurrence of cancer diagnoses, including possible locations of metastasis.

CTU representatives met with the leadership of the contractor, Hochtief -VCES consortium, at the construction site during the director's inspection day at the end of February. CTU Rector prof. Petr Konvolinka personally supervises the construction at these regular monthly meetings. Besides the main user of the building, the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics, other CTU parts will find new space in the building.

Faculty of Civil Engineering opened the travelling exhibition “Enchantment of old maps” in its atrium on 1 March. Seven unique mapping works from map collections of five institutions are presented. The exhibition, which can be visited by 25 March, is composed by posters on the using of old maps for research purposes in the field of geodesy and cartography at the Faculty of Civil Engineering. This set of panels is supported by the Faculty of Civil Engineering, which has a long tradition of teaching cartography.

Shooting hard to reach areas of historic interiors - a task for members of the Multi-robot Systems Group, operating at the Department of Cybernetics at Faculty of Electrical Engineering, that help conservationists using robotic drones. On 26 February, scientists together with the staff of the National Heritage Institute in Olomouc, have successfully captured the interior of the Sternberg parish building, using unmanned helicopters

Since 2012, the CTU ELSA Centre of student support with special needs carried out mapping of accessibility of individual faculties of the university. With the support of the Prague City Hall, this activity ended last year with the release of a new publication: Accessible CTU - Information on the accessibility of buildings CTU, for people with disabilities.