Reports

The two-day meeting of leading Czech and French researchers, developers and entrepreneurs focused on strategically important areas of artificial intelligence was opened by Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský on Monday 12 September 2022 at the Czernin Palace. The event was the result of several years of effort by an international team consisting of representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, the French Embassy in Prague, the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics of the Czech Technical University in Prague (CIIRC CTU) and the French Institute Inria.

Růžena Mašková, Jakub Tomašík and Adam Rössler, students at the time of the competition, now graduates of the Master's degree programme in Architecture and Civil Engineering at the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague, won second place in the prestigious international architectural competition INSPIRELI BEIRUT PORT RENEWAL COMPETITION. They were able to compete in a competition of 249 projects from 43 countries.

Europe is struggling for talent to help develop quantum technologies. A consortium of 24 universities, including the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of the CTU in Prague (FJFI), has now received funding of CZK 215 million for the DigiQ project. However, the total budget is actually double in size, with the other half funded by the participating organisations from the nine EU countries themselves.The main objective of the project is to create professionally and technically well-resourced educational programmes in the field of quantum technologies at the participating universities. It will be officially launched in autumn 2022 and is spread over four years. Among other things, it will offer students their own DigiQ diploma.

Based on the votes of experts and the general public, the Czech start-up of CTU graduates SmartGuide won the Hero of Tourism 2022 award, a special award from the Minister of Regional Development and the CzechTourism Director's Award in the Digitalization category.

The Japanese Ambassador Hideo Suzuki invited scientists and experts in quantum communication together with representatives of the Czech government for a dinner on the occasion of the visit of Prof. Akiro Furusawa from the University of Tokyo in Prague. One of the guests at the Japanese residence was Prof. Igor Jex from the Department of Physics of the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague (FJFI).

The city and sustainable development was the theme of the Design Sprint Summer School. Over 20 students, led by faculty mentors, looked for solutions to use modern technology to make cities better and more environmentally friendly places to live. In just 5 days, they learned the Design Sprint method developed by Google, through which they designed their own projects for a better and more sustainable city life. The summer school was hosted by the Faculty of Information Technology of the Czech Technical University in Prague (FIT CTU) on 25-29 July 2022.

The University Primary School Lvíčata (Lion cubs), established by the CTU in Prague, welcomed almost twenty first-year pupils today. Some of them already have experience with Lvíčata, as they come from the kindergarten by the same name, located around the corner from the primary school. The pupils were greeted by the Rector of the CTU Vojtěch Petráček and the Chancellor Lucie Orgoníková.

The industry can significantly help the czech army with the introduction and use of new technologies based primarily on artificial intelligence. There are still many major companies that do not cooperate with the Army. That is why academics met today at the Czech Technical University in Prague with representatives of the government, the army and the private sector.

Caring for orchards and forests requires a lot of mostly manual work. That's the way it's been and probably always will be, and that's fine. After all, orchards and forests deserve the best personal care. But behind that is hard work, where both nature and skilled human hands can sometimes use some technical help.

The Montgomery Whitewater Park in Alabama, USA, will cover 50 hectares and feature two wild water canals. The shorter one, 380 metres long, meets Olympic standards, while the longer recreational one is over 500 metres long. The hydraulic design of the canals and their hydraulic optimization were solved by experts from the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague on a scale model of both canals, which were created at the Water Management Experimental Centre of the Faculty of Civil Engineering.