Reports

Yesterday, CTU University Centre for Energy Efficient Buildings in Prague signed a Memorandum of Cooperation with the company Affordable Housing of Česká spořitelna with the aim of supporting its projects focused on new housing construction that will be environmentally friendly and offer affordable housing to people who would otherwise not be able to afford it.

CIPA is a unique program involving multicultural teams of students from the Czech Technical University in Prague and students from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. The event is held under the auspices of the Minister of Industry and Trade Ing. Jozef Sikela and the Minister for Science, Research and Innovation Mgr. Helena Langšádlová. The theme of this year's event is sustainability.

This year's edition of the Night of Scientists was also very popular in Prague. In the spirit of this year's theme, BY ALL SENSES, visitors were able to see, feel, hear and taste science on the grounds of Prague's universities, scientific and other institutions on 30 September.

The Social Responsibility Association awarded the SDGs Award to S.A.W.E.R., a technology that independently produces water from dry desert air using only solar energy. The device, developed by CTU University Centre for Energy Efficient Buildings in collaboration with Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, succeeded in the Innovation, Technology and Energy category.

The fission reactors of Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering (FJFI) in Troja, Prague, were visited by a delegation headed by the Finnish Minister of Economy Mika Lintilä on Tuesday 11 October 2022. The visitors were welcomed at the Department of Nuclear Reactors by Rector of CTU, doc. Vojtěch Petráček, Head of the Department Jan Rataj, Head of Reactor Operations Filip Fejt and doc. Ľubomír Sklenka, who was at the beginning of the VR-2 project development.

Students from the Faculty of Transportation Sciences, as well as the Faculties of Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of CTU in Prague took part in the international Moto Engineering Italy race with their electric racing motorcycle CTU Lions EVO 2.0 at the circuit in Imola, Italy.

Rector of CTU, doc. RNDr. Vojtěch Petráček, CSc. greeted the participants of the 7th Innovation Week on Monday, 10 October.

Prof. Ing. Jan Macek, DrSc., FEng. from Faculty of Mechanical Engineering has been dealing with means of transport and energy and environmental aspects of transport throughout his professional career by means of simulations and experiments on vehicle power units. He has been educating students for decades, mainly in master and doctoral programmes. He is the author of hundreds of technical papers published in national and international professional and specialized media and is frequently quoted. He also has twenty patents to his credit. He was honored for his life's work this week at the International Engineering Fair in Brno.

The possibilities of generating jazz music using artificial intelligence algorithms were tested at the Faculty of Information Technology of the Czech Technical University in Prague (FIT CTU). The composition generated with the help of artificial intelligence algorithms was then transcribed into sheet music by experts so that it could be accessible to professional musicians who could rehearse it. This offered a comparison of live performance with purely electronic playback. The whole event took place at the AI Jazz Concert on 6 October 2022 at the CTU FIT.

The understanding of architectural design, the perception of space, form and masses is one of the biggest pitfalls in communication between the layperson and the architect. Designing architecture in virtual reality, which is now being taught to students of the Faculty of Civil Engineering during beta testing of the Wearrecho tool, will allow even "non-architects" to understand and experience architecture authentically and appreciate the possibilities of design. In the future, this may mean a transformation of the possibilities of not only presenting architecture, but of access to it in general.