Reports

The kick-off meeting of the Interreg Europe Repower Industries project took place in Prague under the auspices of CTU UCEEB as the lead partner of the project, which aims to improve conditions for promoting energy independence, efficiency and sustainability in industry over a four-year period. The meeting was attended by experts and industry representatives from different countries to discuss the project plans and strategies. The opening day was dedicated to presentations by each partner who presented their organisations and programmes to promote energy efficiency in the regions. This was followed by an in-depth discussion on the project's planned outputs and work plan for the coming years.

Today, the CTU Rector Vojtěch Petráček, the Director of the Administration of Special Purpose Facilities Michal Vodička and other CTU representatives opened the reconstructed block 4 of Strahov dormitories. There are 228 double bed rooms in a new design for students of the university.

As part of the project Strengthening Capacity and Knowledge Transfer at Higher Education Institutions for the Development of Affected Areas of Ukraine, a course on Transfer of Experience in Development and Reconstruction Planning for Cities in Ukraine was held at the Masaryk Institute of Advanced Studies, CTU in Prague on 12 and 13 June.

The 12th annual ScienceFest on the theme "Science Educates" took place yesterday in Dejvice. The open-air festival is a showcase of everything interesting and useful that science brings to life.

The Czech branch of the European Space Education Resource Office (ESERO) has been opened with great splendour in the presence of CTU Rector Vojtěch Petráček. Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala and Minister of Transportation Martin Kupka also attended the press conference on the "Czech journey to space".

There are dozens of different types of bins on the streets of Prague. The city has long been looking for a way to unify its outdoor furniture, and in addition to a representative design, it wants to take into account practical and economic aspects. The solution is offered by a waste bin designed by Matěj Nedvěd at the Fišer-Nezpěváková design studio of CTU Faculty of Architecture.

A National Competence Centre for Semiconductors should be established in the Czech Republic as early as next year to support the objectives of "Chips for Europe", the first pillar of the European Chips Act (ChipsAct). The centre will integrate the Czech Republic into the emerging European network of competence centres. In line with the draft National Semiconductor Strategy, a consortium of universities, companies, the Semiconductor Cluster and the Innovation Agency is preparing the Czech National Competence Centre for Semiconductors.

The collection of Essays on Consciousness with the subtitle Towards Artificial Intelligence by the editors Vladimír Mařík, Tat'ána Maříková and Miroslav Svítek was christened at the CTU Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics by the President of the Czech Academy of Sciences Eva Zažímalová. The book, which fills a certain debt on the Czech book market, tries to show human consciousness through the eyes of five different scientific disciplines. Among the authors of the individual essays are a number of prominent figures of Czech science, led by microbiologist Václav Pačes, neurosurgeon Vladimír Beneš and the most cited Czech scientist Tomáš Mikolov.

On 17 June 2024, the Faculty of Transportation Sciences of CTU in Prague and the company AŽD inaugurated the new modern Competence Centre Dětenice. The specialised teaching workplace especially for students of railway disciplines was created on the experimental line Kopidlno - Dolní Bousov in the Hradec Králové Region in less than 12 months by revitalising the original service warehouse at the Dětenice railway station.

The finals of the Pangea mathematics competition took place today in the new building of the National Museum. The results were then announced in the late afternoon at the Karlín Music Theatre.