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At the end of 2017, the Faculty of Civil Engineering became the first domestic university to receive accreditation from RICS. It opens a top position to its holders in prestigious real estate companies. Since 2015, graduates of the field "P - Project Management and Engineering" can apply for the globally respected MRICS title after only two years of practice. In the standard process, they could have reported only after ten years of experience.

The Testbed for Industry 4.0 of the Czech Institute of Robotics and Cybernetics of the Czech Technical University will implement and test the factory unit of the M-NEST network for the Czech Republic. This project aims to implement operating conditions that will help organizations and individual users to independently and intuitively discover, experience and qualify to work with new production technologies, in diverse and innovative variants, for example in the automotive sector.

The University Center for Energy Efficient Buildings of the Czech Technical University participated in a unique scientific experiment. Within its framework, biodynamic lighting was installed in the Home for the Elderly in Beroun and subsequently its effectiveness on the physiological and mental functions of clients and caregivers were evaluated. The results showed that the tested special lights are a significant contribution to improving the quality of human life.

The project "EuroTeQ Engineering University", in which CTU is involved, aims to jointly shape the technical education of the future. The study program will be open not only to students enrolled at partner universities, but also to engineers working in industry who are interested in lifelong learning. The initiative will revive the symbiosis between society and technology and emphasize the development of man and society.

In the first half of the year, the National Center for Industry 4.0 expanded with new partners and members who will be involved in the development of the ecosystem for Industry 4.0 in the Czech Republic. T-Mobile, Aricoma Group, VDT Technology, Denso Manufacturing Czech, Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, J.E. Purkyně University, or Czech Maintenance Society are strong partners and leaders in the field of industrial digitization and their connection to activities of the center will expand the portfolio of services provided as well as the scope of its activities.

The Faculty of Civil Engineering engaged in complete reconstruction of its two largest lecture halls. Originally, a total of 480 students could sit in the classrooms built in 1978, after the reconstruction, the capacity of the premises will be increased to 540 seats, of which 12 for people with reduced mobility. The plan is to conclude the works by the end of this year, students should sit in the auditoriums again in January 2021. The contract was won in tender by VW Wachal. The author of the project is Grebner company.

Since 2015, the University Center for Energy Efficient Buildings of the Czech Technical University (UCEEB) together with its industrial partner SKANSKA, a.s (now Wieden, s.r.o.) has been researching possibilities of integrating energy modules with curtain walls in buildings. The goal of the energetically active curtains walls project was to integrate a hybrid photovoltaic-thermal (PVT) collector with an optically selective reflective grid. In the ongoing project of an autonomous façade module, UCEEB focused on the use of a Peltier cooler in combination with photovoltaics integrated into the CW together with battery storage.

Yesterday evening, the final evening of the Hack the Crisis Czech Republic hackathon took place in the WeWork coworking space in Prague. With the participation of Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, Minister of Industry and Trade Karel Havlíček and Government Commissioner for IT Vladimír Dzurilla, the expert jury selected eight winning projects, which shared 10 million crowns donated to the competition by Hyundai. The winning project was DIANA Biotechnologies. In second place came the unique solution of pulmonary ventilation CoroVent, designed for the treatment of COVID19, by the team of prof. Karel Roubík from the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in cooperation with partners. The CoroVent ventilator is currently manufactured by MICo Medical.

On 22 June 2020, a discussion meeting took place in the CTU-CIIRC building within the Global Science Café cycle organized by the Czech Centers entitled Research and Innovation in the Fight against COVID 19. The invitation was accepted by the Rector of the CTU doc. Vojtěch Petráček, student of the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering Šimon Walzel, member and coordinator of the team of engineers in the CoroVent project, David Miklas from the COVID Initiative and Pavel Burget from the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics . The discussion was moderated by Petr Kaiser, special representative for scientific diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In June 2020, two years have passed, since the foundation of the organization that has been raised from the beginning on the community initiative of European scientists and institutions focused on artificial intelligence (AI) research. It currently brings together 375 research groups from 35 countries, with the support of more than 3,500 individuals, mainly leading artificial intelligence researchers, technologists and innovators. In the Czech Republic, CLAIRE has strong ties to the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics of the Czech Technical University in Prague (CIIRC CTU), which also runs its Prague office.