Reports

After last year's triumph, they have once again broken through to the absolute top of the world and are reaching for victory again. Students from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of CTU won second place in the prestigious international ACC Self-Driving Car Student Competition 2025, which took place on 9 July in Denver, USA. According to the assignment, the student teams had to design and implement an autonomous taxi service that will plan routes in real time, serve customers, while respecting traffic rules and obstacles on the route.

The autonomous electroformula CTU.24, developed by the eForce Prague Formula team from CTU, will be presented at the EXPO 2025 world exhibition in Osaka. Visitors will have the opportunity to see the most successful eForce monoplane to date, on display between 7 and 13 July 2025 at the Czech National Pavilion. The eForce team primarily consists of students from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (FEE) and the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (FME) at the Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU).

The aim of the Robotics Underground 2025 event, which took place in mid-June, was to familiarize leaders in the Czech construction industry with the role of modern technologies in the development of construction, their potential applications in the specific environment of underground spaces, and to motivate them to make greater use of automation, robotics, and smart infrastructure in practice. The event was organized by Faculty of Civil Engineering of Czech Technical University in Prague together with the National Center for Construction 4.0 under the auspices of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic.

The AlquistCoder team, composed of researchers and students from the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics (CIIRC) and the Artificial Intelligence Center of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at CTU (AIC FEE), secured first place in the latest round of the Amazon Nova AI Challenge: Trusted AI Track. This achievement grants them direct advancement to the finals of this prestigious international competition. The winners will be announced at the end of July 2025.

After last year's commanding victory, a student team from CTU's Faculty of Electrical Engineering has once again fought its way to the top of the 2025 American Control Conference Self-Driving Car Student Competition. This year's final will take place on July 9 in Denver, USA, and the task is more complex than ever before – teams must design and implement an autonomous taxi service that plans routes in real time, serves customers, and respects traffic rules and obstacles on the road.

Europe is aging, and with that comes increasing pressure on social and health care. The new international TechSocialcare project, led by Czech Technical University in Prague, aims to change the way technology is used in the care of seniors and people with disabilities. The project brings together partners from eight European countries and strives to establish uniform standards for the use of modern technologies in care. The project's kick-off meeting took place in Prague at the Ministry of Industry and Trade, where experts agreed that if we want to maintain the availability of services even with a shortage of workers, it will not be possible without technology.

On Monday, 23 June, students, teachers, parents, and friends of the Lvíčata (Lion Cubs) University Elementary School celebrated the end of the school year at the ČVUT Na Kotlářce sports complex.

Czech Technical University in Prague is ranked 416th in the latest edition of the QS World University Rankings. Compared to last year's result, it has risen by four places. It is also ranked as the second best university in the Czech Republic and the best Czech technical university. 8,467 universities around the world were ranked.

Faculty of Information Technology of CTU in Prague (FIT CTU) celebrates 16 years since its foundation this year. At first glance, it may seem like an ‘ordinary’ anniversary, but in the IT world, the 16th anniversary has a deeper meaning. It is closely linked to the foundations of computing - computers work in binary and the number 16 (2⁴) is the basis of the hexadecimal system used in colour notation, programming and memory management. In binary notation, it represents the value 10,000, a symbol of technological progress, and this is the direction in which the faculty is moving. It has been the most sought-after faculty of CTU for several years, with over 3400 applicants, offering over 400 courses and 20 bachelor's and master's specialisations. It has raised over 4700 IT professionals.

President Petr Pavel appointed 87 new professors on the proposal of the scientific and artistic councils of universities. The ceremony of handing over the appointment decrees took place in the Grand Hall of the Karolinum in the presence of the Minister of Education, Youth and Sports Mikuláš Bek.