Reports

On Tuesday, consortium agreements were signed at Czech Technical University in Prague grounds between CTU, the University of Defence and other individual institutions on their connection to the IBM quantum network. IBM is the only provider of these services in the world and the CTU was the first entity from the Czech Republic to join its network at the beginning of last year.

After President Petr Pavel decided to dismiss the university's rector, Vojtěch Petráček, at the suggestion of the CTU Academic Senate, it was on the Prime Minister Petr Fiala to sign the dismissal as well.

The Science Fair, the largest science festival in the Czech Republic, is organised by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. And every year the fair gets bigger and bigger. This year, too, it invited visitors to a record number of exhibitors.

The design duo Kateřina Goryczka and Oto Melter are celebrating international success - their project Bench X, created at the Laboratory of Innovation at the Klokner Institute of CTU, has won a prestigious award in the SIT Furniture Design Award 2025. It was awarded in the Public Park & Public Area Furniture category for its innovative combination of technology, aesthetics and social impact.

Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering CTU in Prague hosted a number of leading Japanese and Czech experts in the field of quantum technologies on 27-29 May 2025. This was the second meeting, which follows the first workshop held in Tokyo in May 2024. The idea to organize joint meetings in the dynamically developing field of quantum technologies was born in 2023 during bilateral consultations between the Government of the Empire of Japan and the Czech Republic and on the initiative of the Ambassador of the Empire of Japan, His Excellency Hideo Suzuki, prof. Akira Furusawi (University of Tokyo), Prof. Radim Filip (Palacký University) and Prof. Igor Jex (Czech Technical University in Prague).

When in May 2015, the then Dean of the Faculty, Prof. Miroslav Svítek, invited several of his colleagues from all over the world to a small meeting whose main topic was the newly emerging field of Smart Cities, few had any idea to how an important international event this symposium would grow into.

On 21 May, the Academic Senate of the CTU approved the proposal to dismiss Vojtěch Petráček from the post of Rector of the university. At the proposal of the Senate, President Petr Pavel decided to dismiss Petráček on 30 May. The dismissal must still be signed by Prime Minister Petr Fiala.

In May, the Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU) hosted a meeting related to the ongoing project “Joint Cooperative Research Focused on the Transfer of Technological Knowledge and Qualification of Accident-Tolerant Fuel for New Nuclear Power Plants,” which aims to enhance the readiness of the Czech nuclear sector for the Korean APR reactor technology.

An extraordinary session of the Academic Senate of CTU was held on Wednesday afternoon, 21 May, with a single item on the agenda: a motion to dismiss Rector Vojtěch Petráček from his position, submitted on Tuesday 13 May by Senator Jiří Vokřínek. Rector Vojtěch Petráček is leading the CTU in his second term of office, which was due to end in January 2026, eight months from now.

Traditionally, the Rector's Sports Day is held in mid-May. This year the weather was really favourable to the last bit, it did not rain, nor was it unbearably hot. Thus, nothing prevented sports outdoors or indoors and the participation of students and staff in the Institute of Physical Education and Sport exceeded 1000 athletes in various sports disciplines.