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A worthy place for isolation experiments and analogue missions was found within the CTU campus in Dejvice, the only one in the world accessible by metro...

In mid-November, the annual Employers' Club 2023 awards were presented. CTU in Prague was ranked silver in the Employer Recommended School category.

The third meeting of innovators, representatives of the state and companies in the field of construction was held at CTU Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cyberneticson 14 November 2023, under the auspices of National Centre for Construction 4.0. The topics of the strategic discussion within the Construction 4.0 Forum included not only the transformation of the construction industry in the technological field, but also, for example, in the field of law. Representatives of companies presented successful implementations and future trends.

CTU Rector Vojtěch Petráček and the Association of the Czech AeroSpace Industry (ALKP), represented by President Josef Kaspar and Board Member Jiří Protiva, signed an agreement on partnership cooperation shortly after noon on Friday, 10 November. With this act, both institutions confirmed their interest in strengthening cooperation in the field of research and development of aerospace technologies applicable in the civil and defence sector.

Faculty of Transportation Sciences of Czech Technical University in Prague celebrated 30 years since its foundation in the Bethlehem Chapel on Thursday, 2 November 2023. All the staff and other invited guests enjoyed a social evening, which was in the spirit of memories, friendly meetings and wishes for the future.

This year's seventh annual conference on GIS in city and regional planning was held at the Masaryk Institute of Advanced Studies (MIAS) of Czech Technical University in Prague on 31 October 2023 . It was co-organized by the Czech Association for Geoinformation (CAGI) and the Masaryk Institute of Advanced Studies. This year, for the first time, participants could follow the conference, in addition to the presentation form, also online via the MS Teams platform. Both options were used by about 30 participants from public administration, state administration and professional companies.

"It was that glorious day when we were connected to the electric current" sings the fmaous song Electric Waltz by Zdeněk Svěrák and Jaroslav Uhlíř. Its tunes were also heard on 31 October 2023 at the official representative ball of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the CTU in the Slavonic House in Prague, where four-legged robots SPOT and our student Jan Vlk and his dance partner Eliška Vlková danced to their rhytm.

Scientists and representatives of companies and organizations involved in the development of artificial intelligence met on November 1 in Prague's Vzlet during the presentation of the Czech AI Awards. The awards, presented by prg.ai, Brno.AI and CzechInvest, were awarded in five main categories. The winner in the Research and Development category was Josef Šivic from Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics at Czech Technical University in Prague. His long-term cutting-edge scientific work was underlined this year by winning a prestigious ERC Advanced grant in the field of intelligent computer systems capable of learning in a dynamically changing world.

Faculty of Electrical Engineering of CTU (FEL) inaugurated the Reference Laboratory for Correlation Microscopy, which will be used for research purposes and teaching. The new laboratory, worth CZK 20 million, combines technologies and instruments whose configuration is unique not only in the Czech Republic but also in the European Union. Its capabilities will benefit both researchers from the Department of Physics at FEL CTU, as well as doctoral, master's and bachelor's degree students.

Under the auspices of CIPS and the ELSA Centre, the "Let's Connect" event was held at Cafe Prostoru at the end of October, which aimed to introduce a total of 44 registered students of bachelor's and master's degree programmes from CTU and ICT.