Reports

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.

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.