Reports

The second edition of the international EuroTeQ Collider competition was launched on Thursday 3 November. In it, students from the individual universities of the EuroTeQ association (Technical University of Munich, Technical University of Denmark, Technical University of Eindhoven, École Polytechnique, Tallinn University of Technology and CTU in Prague) tackle the "Leave No Waste Behind" challenge. The topics themselves are proposed to the students by the alliance's industrial partners.

On 13-16 October, the tenth edition of the Signal Festival took place at several venues in Prague.

In the face of planned EU regulations, what technological changes are in store for AI algorithms? This question was addressed by the researchers of the international project AutoFair, who met at FEL CTU on 25 October 2022. The official launch of the $95 million Horizon Europe project brought a number of interesting insights from research and practice. They were shared by Marcel Kolaja, Member of European Parliament, Irina Orssich, Head of Sector AI Policy at the European Commission, Martin Hodula, Head of Research at Czech National Bank, and representatives of FEL CTU, Israel's Technion, IBM Research, software companies Workable and Avast, startup Dateio and French bank BNP Paribas. What conclusions did they reach?

Spot from Boston Dynamics is a robodog of which the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of CTU is duly proud. The mobile and commercially marketed end-user robot is also the star of the feature film 'Ordinary Failures' since September 2022. Although he is unrecognisable on screen due to his disguise, this does not detract from the unique connection between the cyber world and the world of filmmaking.

How to support and motivate students in their scientific research? Students receive an exceptional scholarship or financial reward within the framework of the summer student research support programme called Research Summer at FIT (VýLeT) for independent scientific work and its publication. It is already running its 6th year at Faculty of Information Technology and its aim is to involve students in scientific research activities. This is the sixth time that FIT CTU has invested almost two million crowns in supporting the scientific activities of students.

The Faculty of Biomedical Engineering (FBMI) has had a number of exceptional graduates in its 17-year history who have achieved significant success in their professional lives, engaged as volunteers or positively influenced public life. This was one of the reasons for the announcement of the CTU FBMI Alumni Awards under the auspices of its Dean, Prof. MUDr. Jozef Rosina, Ph.D., MBA.

Further advances in correlative probe and electron microscopy are expected from a project co-funded by the Czech Technology Agency, which started this year. The project consortium consists of five partners. The lead partners are two hi-tech companies, COXEM on the Korean side and NenoVision on the Czech side, joined by three academic partners, the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Jeonbuk National University in Korea and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague. The main output of the project will be the establishment of two reference laboratories for correlative microscopy at KIST and CTU, with upgraded instruments.

Artificial intelligence in the service of public sector health, security and military institutions. This is how the presentation of Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Faculty of Biomedical Engineering of CTU at the international exhibition Future Forces Forum could be briefly described. The event, which showcases the latest technologies and approaches to ensuring defence and security at national and international level, takes place at Letňany Exhibition Centre in Prague from Wednesday 19 October to Friday 21 October.

With the support of the Rector doc. RNDr. Vojtěch Petráček, CSc. and the university management, CTU has been running a gender audit Since June 2022, implemented within the framework of the projects Social Security at Czech Universities in the Context of Academic Ethics and Capacity Development for Strategic Management in Research at the CTU in Prague (HR Award).

Ukrainian students with a visa of toleration or a visa of temporary protection enrolled as a student in the 2022/2023 academic year will on the basis of their application submitted to the Study Department be refunded the payment made for actions taken in connection with the admission procedures that were levied in accordance with article 11, paragraph 1, letter a) of the Statute of the Czech Technical University in Prague.