The Lunar VIcinity Complex Environmental Explorer, also known as LVICE2, has the potential to become the first probe from Czechia to transcend Earth's orbit, exploring the space around the Moon and beyond. If the project secures funding, preparations will commence in early 2024, with the probe expected to enter space four years later. This project emerged under the "Czech Ambitious Projects" call by the European Space Agency, giving Czechia the chance to become the tenth country to launch a space probe, which would not be a mere satellite.
The Lunar VIcinity Complex Environmental Explorer spacecraft, LVICE2 for short, has the potential to become the first probe from the Czech Republic to go beyond Earth's orbit, into the space around the Moon and beyond. If the project is selected for funding, preparation will begin in early 2024, and it should enter space four years later. The satellite project was developed under the European Space Agency's "Czech ambitious projects" call. It would make the Czech Republic the tenth country to launch a space probe on its own - a self-propelled device that is not just a satellite.
From August 1st, the Association of Research Universities of the Czech Republic (AVUni) has a new president. Martin Bareš, rector of Masaryk University, takes over from Vojtěch Petráček, rector of the Czech Technical University in Prague.
Lion’s Den is an all-year-round competition by correspondence on the borderline between mathematics and informatics, which is organised by CTU in Prague for students in the second stage of basic schools and in the corresponding classes of extended gymnasium schools. A total of 24 selected participants in the competition take part in a summer camp, which was held this year in Mariánská in the Ore Mountains.
From July 8 to 14, government representative Tomáš Kopečný traveled to Ukraine with an accompanying business delegation. The Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics of the Czech Technical University was represented here by the scientist and initiator of institute’s assistance with the reconstruction of Ukraine, Kryštof Šulc.
On 20 July 2023, CTU Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering hosted a delegation of MEPs headed by Alexander Vondra, Member of the European Parliament. The visitors were welcomed by the Dean of the faculty doc. Václav Čuba directly at the reactor hall in the building at V Holešovičách street .The MEPs then visited the school's VR-1 reactor and the youngest nuclear reactor in the Czech Republic, VR-2, launched on 6 June 2023.
Our CTU CarTech student team has won the Formula Student event at Assen, in the Netherlands. With its improved hybrid drive, the team team triumphed in seven of the eight disciplines and came second in the remaining discipline. FS.15, the first monocoque in the world with a hybrid drive, also took first place in the overall assessment. We congratulate the construction team on their great success!
Information technology is no longer just a male domain. Even recent graduates of the IT Summer School have experienced this for themselves. Girls from high school tried out basics of many areas of IT during a week-long course organized by Czechitas in cooperation with Faculty of Information Technology of the Czech Technical University in Prague (FIT CTU). They then put their knowledge of programming, vector graphics, robotics or project management to good use in the creation of their final projects. Their presentations and demonstrations took place at the gala evening in front of the expert jury.
The expected press release from Amazon has delighted not only the students who are developing the Alquist conversational bot at CTU Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics as part of the fifth annual Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge (SGC5), but also all their fans who follow the competition closely this year. Chatbot Alquist is once again one of the finalists, and in early August we will find out if the team, which has been participating in the competition since its inception, will defend last year's victory.

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