Reports

The winners of the 9th annual student competition Buildings with the smell of wood 2021, organized by the Wood for Life Foundation, were announced at the Autoclub of the Czech Republic in Prague on Thursday 16 September 2021. Total of 65 Czech-Slovak students from 9 Czech and 7 foreign faculties (from Slovakia, Denmark and Italy) took part in the competition focused on wooden construction in the Czech Republic and produced 57 entries. The expert jury, the public and the partners of the competition selected 8 winners, who shared the prizes worth 200 000 CZK. This year the students competed in two categories: wooden buildings - small and wooden buildings - large.

Initial experiments in the new lab show that mobile networks of the future will allow significantly more devices to communicate with each other than existing 5G networks. Solutions based on deep neural networks to control communication in 6G networks can contribute to, among other things, improved safety in automotive and rail transport, more efficient emergency services and the further development of 'smart cities'.

The Memorandum of Cooperation was concluded between the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics (CIIRC CTU) and the Prague Innovation Institute (Pii) in January 2021. Now the cooperation has materialized several times on specific projects that bring added value to the residents of Prague. The first project will help schools to develop support programmes for teachers in the field of polytechnic education. The second aims to create a tool for early diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease.

The 11th annual University Eights, which took place on 17 September on Prague's Rašínovo nábřeží embankment, was won by Charles University among students. In neither of the final races was the winner completely unambiguous, especially for the men it was a drama until the last metres. Only after the finishing straight could the students of Karlovy Vary University raise their hands in relief.

The ensemble of humanoid robots at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of CTU (FEL) has been expanded by iCub, the first robot equipped with all senses. Its features, especially its electronic skin, open up new possibilities for cognition of the human brain with the help of artificial intelligence at the Department of Cybernetics of the CTU FEL.

Experts from the Department of Telecommunication Technology of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of CTU have won a significant award, namely the 2nd prize at the 20th annual conference and competition eLearning 2021, which ended on 3 September in Prague. The team of Ing. Tomáš Zeman, Ph.D., Ing. Marek Nevosad, Ing. Jaromír Hrad, Ph.D., Ing. Jiří Holeček, Ph.D., Bc. Ing. Ivan Pravda, Ph.D., and Ing. Pavel Lafata, Ph.D., impressed the jury with the project Environment for Open Digital Learning Resources VOVCR.CZ.

Completely new doctoral study programmes for restorers, conservators and technologists will be offered by the University of Pardubice (UPCE) and the University of Chemical Technology (VŠCHT) in cooperation with the Czech Technical University in Prague. The Faculty of Restoration of UPCE, which is based in Litomyšl, and the Faculty of Chemical Technology of VŠCHT in Prague will for the first time this year accept graduates who will continue their education in the doctoral programme Conservation Sciences in the Care of Tangible Cultural Heritage.

The launch of SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft, which flew from Cape Canaveral, Florida, to the International Space Station (ISS) on 29 August, was watched with excitement by Czech scientists and students. Among them was Jaroslav Hrubý, who graduated from the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering of the Czech Technical University and is now working at the University of Hasselt in Belgium. The ship had on board a diamond quantum magnetometer, which he participated in the development of.

The Czech Technical University in Prague has slightly strengthened its position in the group of 1000 universities in the latest edition of the World University Rankings for 2022, published by the British company Times Higher Education. Despite the increasing number of universities ranked. A total of 19 Czech universities appear in the rankings.

On 1 September 2021, The University Elementary School Lvíčata (Lion cubs) opened its new facilities with the start of the school year. The opening ceremony was attended by the Rector of CTU doc. Vojtěch Petráček and the Chancellor and Chairwoman of the Founder's Council Ing. Lucie Orgoníková. The Rector then welcomed all sixteen first graders and their parents in their class.