Reports

Automation, digitalisation and robotics are areas in the construction industry with significant potential for improving efficiency, quality and safety. The Automation Laboratory, which is being developed at Faculty of Civil Engineering of Czech Technical University in Prague, should help their development in the field of student education and practical use in the construction sector. The laboratory is being developed in cooperation with CTU Faculty of Architecture.

The Faculty of Architecture of CTU hosted a ceremony to announce the winning projects of the fourth year of the Dean's Award on Thursday, 21 November. The jury awarded the best studio and diploma works of the past academic year. The final projects are on display at the exhibition on the ground floor of the faculty until 15 January 2025.

Ing. Marek Sokol, a PhD student of the Department of Health Sciences and Population Protection, who in his dissertation is dedicated to the development of technologies for space applications, has become a member of the Antarctic Expedition 2025! Marek will spend almost three months at the Czech Scientific Station Johann Gregor Mendel on James Ross Island, where he will conduct research on the impact of extreme environments on the human body and biomedical technology.

On 20 November 2024, the Dean of Faculty of Biomedical Engineering of CTU (FBMI) Jozef Rosina and the Director of the Central Military Hospital (CMH) Václav Masopust signed an agreement on mutual cooperation. Thanks to the agreement, a joint Institute of Haematology, Transfusiology and Laboratory Medicine of CTU FBMI and the Institute of Hematology will be established at the CMH from 1 April 2025.

The Minister of Education, Youth and Sports Mikuláš Bek presented the Ministry of Education's awards in the field of higher education, science and research in the Liechtenstein Palace on Tuesday 19 November. Three students of the CTU were also awarded.

On Tuesday, 19 November 2024, the University of Health Sciences in Cambodia held the inauguration of a new laboratory that will allow students to gain practical knowledge and skills to work with and maintain medical instrumentation.

The 30th anniversary edition of the college and university fair for high school students began on 19 November and will run until Friday 22 November. The CTU can be found at the Brno Exhibition Centre in Hall V, Stand 32.

The annual awards of the Employers' Club 2024 were presented at the Pyramida Hotel on Monday, 18 November. CTU in Prague was ranked silver in the category of School Recommended by Employers.

The 71st running race and the 61st Academic Cross Country Championships were held at the Hvězda Enclosure on Saturday, 16 November, 2024. The organizer of the run was traditionally the Institute of Physical Education and Sport of CTU (IPES), the race was held under the auspices of doc. Vojtěch Petráček, Rector of CTU in Prague.

At the FORMNEXT trade fair in Germany in the second half of November, experts from the Department of Materials at the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of Czech Technical University (CTU FNSPE) will present a unique bell, which was created thanks to the method of supersonic material deposition, known as "cold spray". The bell is intended to show that damaged historic bells can be repaired using this method without deteriorating their sound properties.