Reports

On Tuesday 14. 3. 2023, students of the Faculty of Transportation Sciences of CTU in Prague had an opportunity to meet Daniel Herman, honorary consul of the principality of Liechtenstein in the Czech Republic.

The European Mathematical Society (EMS) has established the EMS Young Academy (EMYA) to support young researchers in mathematics. The organisation consists of Ph.D. students and recent Ph.D. graduates. It will have a total of 120 members, who will be elected successively for four-year terms. Each year, there is an election in which a quarter of the members is elected. This year, RNDr. Zdeněk Mihula, Ph.D. from the Department of Mathematics of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of CTU, is among the first ever thirty mathematicians who received a mandate.

On 10 March, sixty high school students arrived at the Become an AI Expert for a Day event held at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of CTU. The participants visited four laboratories where teachers and PhD students from the CTU Faculty of Electrical Engineering presented AI research projects and the students tried out various practical tasks.

On Tuesday, March 14th, music composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonín Dvořák rang out in the Bethlehem Chapel in the traditional CTU Spring Concert.

Faculty of Biomedical Engineering has concluded an agreement with Insane Business Ideas s.r.o. on cooperation in the innovation and educational project Caelestinus organized by Insane Business Ideas s.r.o. with the aim of supporting the development of Czech startups in the field of technology in medicine and healthcare.

CTU Masaryk Institute of Advanced Studies (MÚVS) in cooperation with the University of Lille and the University of Vilnius launched the second year of the compulsory elective course International Project Workshop for students of the Bachelor's degree programme in Economics and Management. The second year continues in the same spirit as last year, when, in addition to the MÚVS students, students from abroad and companies from the private sector joined the project. Compared to last year, a new partner has been added to the project, which is Mikolas Romeris University from Lithuania. Ten selected students from each of the partner schools are participating, who, together with representatives of six companies, met for the first time at the end of February at the opening meeting in the premises of the Rector's Office of the CTU.

Students from FIT CTU and their teammates designed unique applications to save lives in the European Healthcare Hackathon (EHH) international competition, organized by IKEM. The first application was related to individual detection of ECG abnormalities in each patient. The second app was about providing the fastest possible first aid. Over 700 applicants from 24 countries applied for the EHH and only 200 of them were invited to the hackathon, where they competed in seven challenges; FIT CTU students and their teams took the top places in two of them.

The Faculty of Transportation Sciences organized the XVth year of the Dean's Award competition. The competition is intended for individuals, but also two-member teams of students of vocational secondary schools and grammar schools.

The Thermal Spa in Velké Losiny, in cooperation with a team of experts from the Department of Information and Communication Technologies in Medicine of Faculty of Biomedical Engineering of CTU and 1st Medical Faculty of Charles University, built a new unique Telerehabilitation Laboratory equipped with the Homebalance system.

A delegation from the National Taipei University of Technology (NTUT) met representatives of the Czech Technical University in Prague today. There were two main topics for discussion.