Reports

A guided walk through the Lesser Town and Hradčany was held on 3 June 2022 - for Ukrainian mothers with children, relatives of CTU students staying in the dormitories at Strahov.

The National Centre for Industry 4.0 has prepared an Analysis of Czech Industry 2/2022 on the occasion of the National Industrial Summit, which will take place in Bethlehem Chapel on 10 June. The analysis is based on data obtained through 237 interviews with key representatives of selected companies in Czech industry.

For two years, the covid-19 pandemic affected the lives of people across Europe. It brought with it a wide range of social changes, many of which are apparently irreversible. The analysis of these changes was therefore given by the Masaryk Institute of Advanced Studies of the Czech Technical University in Prague to the 11th conference of the Regional Development Between Theory and Practice series, this time under the title "Impacts of the covid-19 pandemic on the development of regions of Europe".

Rector of the Czech Technical University in Prague doc. RNDr. Vojtěch Petráček, CSc. and vice-rector for foreign relations prof. Ing. Oldřich Starý, CSc. met with representatives of the Belarusian national minority, representative of the Belarusian Institute in Prague and a representative of the Belarusian Students association of the Czech Republic on 1.6.

ČVUT v Praze pořádalo ve středu dne 1. června 2022 konferenci a prezentaci zajímavých prací studentů středních škol Středoškolská technika 2022 – StreTech, hostiteli byly Fakulta strojní a Fakulta elektrotechnická. CTU hosted a conference and presentation of remarkable works of high school students, the Secondary School Technology 2022 – StreTech on Wednesday, 1 June 2022, held at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering.

With the increasing number of electric cars, the question arises of how to cope with retired batteries. Currently used recycling methods are costly and uneconomical. With an efficient and sustainable solution, which consists in evaluating the status of individual battery modules and their so-called retrofiting using advanced automation and artificial intelligence, comes a project by the Slovak company ZTS - VÝSKUM A VÝVOJ, a.s., which has chosen the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics of the Czech Technical University as its strategic partner. The project is part of IPCEI – i.e. Important Projects of Common European Interest.

Today, a new order of the Rector of CTU in Prague came into force regulating the conditions of study of Russian and Belarusian students - both current students and new applicants. The procedures for admitting students from Russia and Belarus are based on fulfilling the sanctions imposed by the Organs of the European Union.

In recent days, the first graduates of the dual-degree study programme Smart Cities were held at the partner university UTEP in the USA. The graduates Kateřina Pithartová, Eliška Glaserová and Martin Čirkov successfully passed the state final exams and defended their theses and can now use the American MSc title in addition to the Czech Master's degree. The completion of the Master's degree course with two world-renowned degrees is a significant element of this unique study programme.

The 10th edition of the Pilsen Rescue Cup took place in Prášily from 13 to 15 May, where the team of the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering took the 1st place, namely Dominik Pánek, Marek Ječmen and Samuel Klíma (students of the 3rd year of the Medical Rescuer course).

Eduard Palíšek, CEO of Siemens ČR, and Eva Zažímalová, President of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, announced the results of the prestigious Werner von Siemens Prize at a press conference in the building of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic on Thursday, 19 May. In the 24th edition, the most successful turned out to be CTU in Prague with six awards, followed by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic with four awards and the Brno University of Technology with three bronze awards; as 568 entries were received. The conference was attended by four winners from CTU (pictured from the left): Roman Lavička, Petr Hauschwitz, Nikola Pokorný and Martin Hodek.