Reports

In the presence of Czech Ambassador Pavel Procházka, a workshop was opened in Kashitu, Zambia, which was built over three months by Czech builders and architects with local volunteers. The workshop will serve as a base for the construction of a secondary school. An innovative building technology of interlocking unbaked bricks stabilized with cement was used, in which local volunteers were trained. The technology can thus be used locally to improve the construction of both residential buildings and, for example, the planned construction of a secondary school. The workshop is the first building of this school for 250 students. It will act as a training centre for this new construction technology before the building moves on to the next phase, and should serve as a back-of-house facility during further construction.

The 8th edition of the biggest event in the field of innovation and artificial intelligence was officially opened at the DOX gallery in Prague on Monday 9 October in the evening.

Another edition of the popular science-popularization event Night of Scientists took place in the early evening of Friday, 6 October. One of the co-organizers was CTU. Seven out of eight faculties participated, in addition to the Central Library of CTU, Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics and the Rector's Office prepared a quiz for visitors in the Infocentre for prizes.

In one week's time, the CTU Lions student racing team will head to the final race in Aragon, Spain, to compete against nearly 50 other teams from all over the world in the MOTOSTUDENT ELECTRIC category as part of the 7th year of the international MOTOSTUDENT project. Prior to team´s departure, the new EVO 3.0 electric motorcycle, which the team designed and subsequently built as part of this year's competition, was unveiled and christened.

It was a great honour for the Children's University of CTU to be invited by the Executive Director Mrs. Ing. Eva Hanáková to the prestigious SingularityU Czech Summit. It took place in Prague at Žofín palace on October 2, 2023 and brought together 25 visionaries from Silicon Valley and other parts of the world. Guests of the summit were European leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs, politicians, world's leading scientists, as well as representatives of NGOs and outstanding students who had the opportunity to try the most advanced technologies in practice.

Representatives of the International Department of the Rector's Office of CTU in Prague and a representative of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering attended the 33rd annual EAIE conference for international higher education in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, from 26 to 29 September 2023.

In the premises of the Testbed for Industry 4.0, the CTU Space Research team presented Illustria, the largest student rocket in the Czech Republic, with which they will participate in the prestigious international competition European Rocketry Challenge in Portugal in October. The team developed the rocket at CTU in Prague with the support of academic and industrial partners.

Honeywell and Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) outlining research collaboration in areas that support sustainable aviation, Innovative Air Mobility (IAM) and the development of space technologies. The agreement aims to offer students the opportunity to work in teams at Honeywell's Brno R&D centre, the largest in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

A joint delegation consisting of Vice-Deans of Faculty of Transportation Sciences, prof. Miroslav Svítek and doc. Tomáš Horák, Ambassador Mr. Miloslav Stašek and Cultural Attaché Mr. Jan Woska visited the partner university UTEP in El Paso, Texas on 7-9 September 2023.

The conference Modern Practices in Distance Care and Rehabilitation Medicine has become a unique event providing an opportunity to meet experts, academics and students in the field of distance care and rehabilitation. The conference was held on 15 September 2023 and was co-organized by Faculty of Biomedical Engineering of Czech Technical University in Prague, 1st Faculty of Medicine of Charles University and the Section of Telemedicine of Czech Association of Medical Physics of the Czech Medical Association of J. E. Purkyně.