For the fourth time, future paramedics from Faculty of Biomedical Engineering of Czech Technical University in Prague draw attention with the event "Donate blood!" - mass blood donation at the Kladno Regional Hospital on 12 December 2023 - on the irreplaceability of human blood and the shortage of donors.
Czech Technical University in Prague, together with Prague public universities associated in the Study in Prague consortium, has awarded an extraordinary scholarship of Prof. Miroslav Vlček to five foreign students. The award ceremony took place on 5 December 2023 at the Mayor's Residence on Mariánské náměstí square.
The JUNIOR STAR Grants, awarded in November 2023 by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (GA ČR), are intended to promote excellence in budding outstanding scientists. Its basic research project, which is expected to have a significant scientific impact on a global scale. Ing. Lukáš Neumann, Ph.D. from the Department of Cybernetics at Faculty of Electrical Engineering can thus finance his research.
Two students from the FIT CTU were on the stage at the SHE STEM Award 2023 competition. Markéta Petrtýlová won the second place with her thesis E-learning Application for the Development of Cyber Security and Bc. Eliška Helikarová won the third place with her thesis Anonymity Analysis of the CTU Poll Application. A total of 40 students entered the competition and only 8 of them made it to the finals, which took place at CTU on 30 November 2023.
Sleep is extremely important for the human body. Most people are aware that they need to sleep for a reasonable length of time and at a convenient time, yet a large proportion of the population does not act accordingly. Sleep is shortened and the quality of sleep is also reduced due to alcohol or other addictive substances. Complaints about sleep are some of the most common that doctors hear in their practices.
Open-Cube is a new platform based on the popular Raspberry Pi PICO. It aims to replace the now hard to find or worn out LEGO Mindstorms that have been used so far in the Robots course or in various robotics competitions. It supports sensors and motors from both the NXT and EV3 kits, as well as self-developed sensors such as the laser rangefinder. Open-Cube is meant to be an open platform with available HW and FW source files that anyone can build and possibly contribute their own ideas to its development.
The CTU Lions motorcycle team, composed of CTU students, proved their skills and abilities in the international MotoStudent competition held in Aragon, Spain. In this prestigious competition, where more than 43 teams from all over the world competed in the category of electric motorcycles, CTU Lions won an excellent 13th place and proved that they are among the top in the construction and design of motorcycles.
Czech Technical University in Prague hosted the first meeting of working groups composed of CTU experts and representatives of the General Staff of the Czech Army and the Ministry of Defence on Friday, 1 December. These meetings were held within the framework of the Structured Scientific Research Dialogue between CTU and the General Staff of the Czech Army and were opened by the Rector of CTU Vojtěch Petráček and the 1st Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Czech Army, Lieutenant General Miroslav Hlaváč. The conference was also attended by the Chief of the General Staff of the Czech Army, Lieutenant General Karel Rehka.
Ninety thousand, that is the number of students who have passed through the doors of the Centre for Information and Counselling Services, established by the Rector's Office of CTU in Prague, over the past twenty years. It is ninety thousand stories, questions, study and personal difficulties that CIPS helped to solve. However, this issue also contains thousands of joys of solved problems, passed exams and successfully completed studies.
Thanks to a Fulbright-Masaryk Scholarship, educator and popularizer of playful science Jiří Zemánek spent the 2019/2020 academic year at MIT. After three years, he returned to the world's top-ranked technological university according to the QS ranking, accompanied by his colleague Kristof Pučejdl and two master's students. We had the following conversation with the two researchers from the Department of Control Engineering at the FEL CTU about their work trip, inspirations for their own research in the field of digital materials, as well as the differences between their students and those at MIT.

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