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The EuroTeQ alliance, of which CTU is a member, together with 40 other alliances of European universities, yesterday joined in supporting Ukraine. In a joint statement, the alliances also condemned the bombing of Kharkiv National University.

2022/03/04
Students Against the War - a title of yesterday's concert of four bands at Campus Dejvice.

Even at a time when Belarus is officially at Russia's side, aiding Putin's unprecedented attack on an independent Ukraine, the academic world does not forget to support free civil society in Lukashenko's dictatorship. One of the projects is the student 11+1 project, whose tour of Czech universities has now concluded at CTU.

The Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague has decided to donate two and a half million crowns to the account of SOS Ukraine established by People in Need.

An Order of the Rector of CTU, Vojtěch Petráček, came into force today, prohibiting, among other things, the operation of licensed software sold by the Czech Technical University to Russia and Belarus, or the financing of research on the territory of these two states. At the same time, the Rector specified assistance offered to Ukrainians, not only to those who study and work at CTU.

For ten years, the Second Skin competition has been tracking how students of the Faculty of Architecture manage to design residential buildings. The winner of the jubilee edition was Ester Maria Dvořáková from the Redčenkov-Danda studio with her design for an apartment building at Drůbeží trh in Opava. The jury appreciated the well-thought-out concept and naturalness of the design. The winning works and all nominated projects are on display until 10 March 2022 on the ground floor of the Faculty of Architecture.

The "Become a Hero" challenge was supported by students of the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering of the Czech Technical University (FBMI), students of the 3rd Faculty of Medicine of the Charles University (3rd Faculty of Medicine) and firefighters of the Fire Brigade of the Czech Republic. On 10 March 2022, many of them will participate in the bone marrow registry in Kladno at the FBMI (Sítná Square 3105) and in Prague at the 3rd Faculty of Medicine of the Charles University (Ruská 87 street).

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Today's Russian attack on Kiev and other sovereign territories of Ukraine resonates throughout society. The media take interest in the attitude of Czech universities towards Ukrainian students. Czech Television was the first to film at the CTU, interviewing the Vice-Rector, prof. Ing. Zbyněk Škvor, CSc., at his home campus of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. Ruslan, a student whose family lives directly in Kiev and whose older brother has already graduated from CTU, also answered the editor's questions.

As Rector of the Czech Technical University in Prague, at the moment when a crisis bordering on a war has arisen in the east of Ukraine, I issue the following pronouncement: