Reports

Jae-Hoon Chung, CEO of Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP), and doc. Vojtěch Petráček, Rector of the Czech Technical University in Prague, signed a Memorandum of Understanding at the end of June at the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic (MIT). Jozef Síkela, Minister of Industry and Trade, and Tomas Ehler, Deputy Minister of the Nuclear Energy Section, were also present at the ceremony.

At the end of June, the opening ceremony of the unique new and modernized laboratories of the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering (FBMI) of the Czech Technical University in Prague took place in Kladno, especially for the Biomedical Engineering PhD study programme.

What do Tunis, German Ulm and Hungarian Budapest have in common? Now, for example, the fact that from these three places the ignition and measurements on the Golem tokamak in the centre of Prague at the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering (FJFI) were initiated on the same day via the Internet. For the first time in history, an African country was included in the list of countries from where the ignition of the plasma on the Golem tokamak was initiated.

Over 15,000 people visited the Dejvice campus on Wednesday 22 June, where the 10th edition of the traditional Vědafest festival was held together with the event "Priorities of the Czech Presidency". Charles University, the Czech Technical University, the Institute of Chemical Technology, the Czech University of Life Sciences, the Academy of Performing Arts and the Academy of Arts Architecture and Design in Prague opened exhibitions for visitors, presenting selected topics of the Czech Presidency of the EU Council, as it commences 1 July and ends on 31 December 2022.

In June, the European Commission published the results of the evaluation of the submitted candidates for the establishment of European Centres for Digital Innovation (EDIH). CTU had already been successful last year when it participated in two projects out of six candidates at the national level - CTU EDIH and CYBESECURITY INNOVATION HUB. In the case of EDIH CTU, even in the position of coordinator. Both proposals involving CTU have now been selected at European level.

The Association of Research Universities, which was established three years ago and is now chaired by Vojtěch Petráček, Rector of the CTU in Prague, will expand by another important member. As of 1 July, the Brno University of Technology will become a member.

Just a week ago, on Wednesday 22 June, 101 exhibitions filled the green lawn at Vítězný náměstí square in Dejvice with science literally from A to Z. Exhibitors from universities, academic institutes, leisure institutions and companies presented their work and research in a playful way. The large and entertaining open-air popular science laboratory attracted a huge number of visitors, approaching sixteen thousand.

What is the most common reason for people to go into debt and how many people in the Czech Republic are in favour of direct election of the president? These and other opinion polls are conducted by research agencies. Each agency has its own "warehouse" of information that can be used further. The web platform DATArohlík, developed in cooperation with the Faculty of Information Technology (FIT), is a data self-service where all data from research agencies are stored and available completely in one place. Similar to an online grocery store.

The International Union of Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine (IUPESM) elected assoc. prof. Lenka Lhotská, head of the Cognitive Systems and Neuroscience group at the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics of the Czech Technical University, as Fellow of the IUPESM. The recipients of this IUPESM Honour were be announced at World Congress 2022 in Singapore in the end June.

The unique set of wheeled, tracked, flying and walking robotic systems at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague has been expanded by two SPOT robots with a robotic arm. The SPOTs from Boston Dynamics arrived at Charles Square a few weeks ago, so the team of roboticists and computer scientists is still getting acquainted with them. However, one of them has already had its first test run.