Reports

The ockovani.opendatalab.cz website offers an overview of vacancies for vaccination against COVID-19. The aim of the application is to offer the citizens of the Czech Republic a quick overview of free capacities, which has not been available anywhere before. The application was developed by Marek Sušický and Jan Staněk from the Open Data Laboratory, a joint workplace of the Faculty of Information Technology (FIT ČVUT) and the company Profinit. The newly published open data also helped them to do this.

This year, the Association of Architecture Students at the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University in Prague organized the 28th annual Olověný Dušan competition for the best architectural and design projects at the Faculty. This year's theme - without borders - was based on the transfer of the competition to the online environment and the resulting opportunity to address jurors from abroad. The international jury shared its experience with students and the general public in accompanying lectures, which preceded the announcement of the results. This took place at the Center for Architecture and Urban Planning on 4 March, 2021

Experts in the management of the construction company, investor preparation and development, with knowledge of building design, building materials and technologies, but also people able to succeed in any area of economics and management. Such should be the graduates of the bachelor's program Management and Economics in Construction, which has been returning as an independent student at the Faculty of Civil Engineering since the 2021/2022 academic year. Existing independently in the past, later it was included as a field under the study program Civil Engineering and students could choose it as a study specialization from the third year of study.

The competition show of the best designs of residential buildings is organized for second-year students by the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University in Prague. It presents different approaches to housing design. The show contributes to the reflection of studio teaching and discussion of the methodology of designing (not only) residential buildings. Each head of the studio where the assignment was solved can nominate up to three projects for the competition. In previous years, about 30 projects were nominated, this year, despite obstacles to distance learning, reports a record: 44 nominations from 18 school studios.

Students Anna Karbanová from the program Architecture and Civil Engineering, Barbora Macková and Tadeáš Zahradník from the field of Project Management and Engineering of the Faculty of Civil Engineering took part in the international student competition ASC - Associated Schools of Construction from 19 to 22 February 2021. In the finals of the competition, in the Heavy Civil, Commercial and Design Build categories, CTU students won the great second place in a joint team with students from California Polytechnic State University and in competition with other American teams.

On Thursday, February 25, 2021, the Rector of the Czech Technical University in Prague, doc. Vojtěch Petráček together with the chairman of the Prague Academic Club 48 Martin Špolec flower gifts at the memorial plaque of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic in Nerudova street. The reverential meeting was held with a limited number of people and without any associated program. The participants commemorated the 73rd anniversary of the students' march for freedom and democracy to Prague Castle, which took place on 25 February, 1948.

Researchers from the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics (CIIRC) of the Czech Technical University in Prague have created a unique algorithm that can find the optimal setting of the laboratory system to evaluate as many samples as possible in the shortest possible time. Patients can thus expect the laboratory can evaluate more samples and also that they will obtain test results sooner. In response to the situation surrounding the global COVID-19 pandemic, PREVEDIG medical - a laboratory diagnostic center, Beckman Coulter - a leading supplier of laboratory analyzers and laboratory automation, and CIIRC CTU. Together, they focused on how to process more samples with the laboratory's current capacity. By optimizing and adjusting the settings of the laboratory system, it was possible to increase the number of samples in order of tens of percent.

Kateřina Průchová's diploma project Zlatá stoka, was ranked among the 12 best projects of the Young Talent Architecture Awards (YTAA) international competition. In her work created in the Novotný – Koňata – Zmek architectural studio, the author offers attractive architectural and urban solutions in the landscape around Zlatá stoka, a once indispensable water works in southern Bohemia.

After obtaining the European patent (April 2020), researchers from the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics of the Czech Technical University (CTU CIIRC) and the Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (FZU AV ČR) have now obtained the US patent and have now access to the market of largest number of nuclear reactors in the world. All 94 nuclear reactors in the United States can use a patented method of protecting the surface of fuel cells from corrosion, which will extend the life of fuel cells under both emergency and standard conditions.

A document entitled "Recommended Procedures for the Admission of Academic and Research Staff and in the Organization of Competitions for CTU Managers" came into force at the Czech Technical University in Prague on 15 February 2021. It supplements the Career Rules, which will be effective from 1 April 2021, together with the new Internal Wage Regulations, which will also be effective from the beginning of April 2021.