Reports

On 23 April 2024, the Academic Senate of CTU Faculty of Biomedical Engineering elected a candidate for Dean of FBMI. In a secret ballot, Prof. MUDr. Jozef Rosina, Ph.D., MBA was unanimously elected for the term 2024-2028 as the new Dean of FBMI.

Membership in the Athens organisation enables hundreds of CTU students each year to attend week-long intensive courses at prestigious European universities, while hundreds of foreign students come to CTU each year for professional week-long courses.

More accurate and faster mapping of water pollution as well as better control of passive surface vessels towed by ships were the main objectives of the cooperation projects of robotic drones developed by the Multirobotic Systems Group of CTU FEL (MRS) and autonomously controlled ships. The results were presented by the researchers on 22 April at the banks of the Orlik reservoir. More than 40 flying robots soared above the water and the surrounding meadows during the camp in the previous days, and around 60 experts were also involved in various experiments. The demonstrations are based on several projects on which a group from Faculty of Electrical Engineering collaborated with experts from Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague (ČZU) and companies Fly4Future and Eurosecur.

Today, Vojtěch Petráček, rector of CTU, and Hou Tuo-Hung, Director General of TSRI, have signed two major documents – a Memorandum of Cooperation and, most importantly, an agreement to establish a Taiwanese training base for international professionals working in chip development – IC.

Truly April weather prevailed on 16 April, as the Vektor Technická programme launched again this year.

Architecture teaching at CTU has moved up 50 places in a prestigious university ranking. In the Architecture and Built Environment category, it is ranked first in the Czech Republic. It is also the highest ranked discipline at CTU.

Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU) and the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (AMU) have established an exclusive cooperation in the field of science and art. CTU is the owner of the cultural space called Bethlehmská Beseda. It includes the Bethlehem Chapel and all the lavish halls that surround the chapel. It hosts graduation ceremonies, concerts, exhibitions, lectures, ceremonial acts and galas. For AMU, this beautiful space is one of the opportunities to present performances of its students, mainly from Faculty of Music and Dance, or to present collaborations with other artistic bodies.

A symposium on nuclear cooperation between the Czech Republic and South Korea, or rather the South Korean company KHNP, was held in Prague this afternoon. KHNP has, among other things, submitted a bid for the completion of the Dukovany nuclear power plant, and although it has not yet built anything in Europe, it boasts almost 50 years of experience in building and operating nuclear power plants elsewhere in the world. Among the symposium's opening speakers was Vojtěch Petráček, Rector of the Czech Technical University in Prague, a trained nuclear physicist himself.

Rector of Palacký University Martin Procházka and Rector of CTU Vojtěch Petráček officially presented the anthology Santini and Italy on Wednesday 10 April in the café of the Academia bookstore in Prague

Ten years since its opening, the Network Multimedia Laboratory (SAGElab) at Faculty of Information Technology of Czech Technical University in Prague (FIT CTU) celebrated its 10th anniversary. The aim of the laboratory is to support teaching and education of professionals in the fields of network technologies, multimedia and virtual reality. In addition, the lab also creates a space for research and development of new network applications. SAGElab is a joint workplace of CTU FIT and CESNET association. What is its current equipment and what activities or projects does it address?