Reports

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.

35 and 85 years. Two anniversaries of 17 November. Speeches, wreath-laying, remembrances began on a festive Sunday in front of the Hlávkova dormitory of Czech Technical University

Bc. Huu Quy Nguyen, Student of Faculty of Information Technology of Czech Technical University in Prague (FIT CTU), focused in his bachelor thesis on creation of a recommender system for optimizing the monitoring of live streams of elephants at the Prague Zoo. This system can help viewers to choose the most suitable camera for tracking elephants and also makes the work of keepers easier by automating the tracking of elephants' position during the day, which they used to do manually. This project was developed in collaboration with Prague Zoo, which had previously approached FIT with the possibility of collaboration. This work earned Huu Quy Nguyen the Dean's Award.

Brain research requires a fundamental change in research approach. A completely new direction was taken by research teams from four Czech research institutes, who joined with French and German scientists and succeeded together in a strong European competition. As a result, a completely unique interdisciplinary centre of excellence, CLARA, the first of its kind in Central and Eastern Europe, will be established in the Czech Republic over the next six years to focus on the development of a new generation of applications using artificial intelligence, computational modelling and quantum computing. The aim is to push the boundaries of research into neurodegenerative diseases, in particular Alzheimer's disease, by processing large-scale multidimensional biological and clinical data using powerful supercomputers and quantum methods. The centre has a total budget of CZK 1.1 billion (€43 million), with the European Union providing more than CZK 380 million (€15 million) under the Horizon Europe Teaming for Excellence programme.