Reports

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.

As part of the Cybernetics and Robotics study programme at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague, students could enrol in a new compulsory elective course How to Make (Almost) Anything - and the interest was enormous. Jiří Zemánek, a "scientific handyman" who was inspired, among other things, by the course of the same name at the renowned MIT University, is the guarantor and lecturer. The new course is unique in the Czech environment in its scope - students are to learn how to use software and hardware tools to create projects using digital manufacturing, but the focus does not have to be limited to robotics or electrical engineering.

75 years ago, on 25 February 1948, students marched from the CTU building on Charles Square to the Castle to support the democratic President Edvard Beneš.

SACT General Phillipe Lavigne, in the company of the DefSec Innovation HUB (DSIH) team, held talks with representatives from CTU in Prague. During the meeting with Vice Rector Zbyněk Škvor, they discussed many possibilities of cooperation, both public and non-public. This was a follow-up to a summit held at CTU in August 2022 to connect the military, academia and industry.

The eForce FEE Prague Formula student racing team, based at Faculty of Electrical Engineering, has significantly advanced in the main category of the 279 university teams ranking from all over the world. Counted in the top ten European teams, it holds 17th place globally and is first among competitors from domestic universities. This is one of the best rankings in eForce team history. Students from different faculties of CTU, especially from Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, collaborate on the design of both the piloted and the autonomous electric formula cars.

Kristina Jarůšková, a PhD student from the Department of Software Engineering at the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of CTU (FJFI), who is now at CERN, has made it to the prestigious Forbes 30under30 list for 2023. For the tenth time, the list features 30 talented, capable and successful people under 30 every year. And the Nuclear faculty has already had a representative within it: In 2020 it was Roberta Bimba and David Klečka, and a year later Petr Hauschwitz.

CTU in Prague has now opened a new competition-standard archery range in the Podolí dormitory area. Rector Vojtěch Petráček cut the ceremonial ribbon in the presence of Jiří Drnek, director of the Institute for Physical Education and Sport, Michal Vodička, director of CTU Service Facilities Administration, and other guests.