Reports

The Dean awarded teachers for outstanding teaching performance based on the recommendations of a committee established by him. The committee based its recommendations on the results of a survey with emphasis on verbal evaluations by students, suggestions from department chairs, and also took into account factors such as the quality of course materials and the difficulty of teaching. In the evaluation, the committee selected among teachers who had not been awarded in the same category in the last three years.

Today, Vojtěch Petráček, rector of CTU, and Hou Tuo-Hung, Director General of TSRI, have signed two major documents – a Memorandum of Cooperation and, most importantly, an agreement to establish a Taiwanese training base for international professionals working in chip development – IC.

Truly April weather prevailed on 16 April, as the Vektor Technická programme launched again this year.

Architecture teaching at CTU has moved up 50 places in a prestigious university ranking. In the Architecture and Built Environment category, it is ranked first in the Czech Republic. It is also the highest ranked discipline at CTU.

Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU) and the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (AMU) have established an exclusive cooperation in the field of science and art. CTU is the owner of the cultural space called Bethlehmská Beseda. It includes the Bethlehem Chapel and all the lavish halls that surround the chapel. It hosts graduation ceremonies, concerts, exhibitions, lectures, ceremonial acts and galas. For AMU, this beautiful space is one of the opportunities to present performances of its students, mainly from Faculty of Music and Dance, or to present collaborations with other artistic bodies.

A symposium on nuclear cooperation between the Czech Republic and South Korea, or rather the South Korean company KHNP, was held in Prague this afternoon. KHNP has, among other things, submitted a bid for the completion of the Dukovany nuclear power plant, and although it has not yet built anything in Europe, it boasts almost 50 years of experience in building and operating nuclear power plants elsewhere in the world. Among the symposium's opening speakers was Vojtěch Petráček, Rector of the Czech Technical University in Prague, a trained nuclear physicist himself.

Rector of Palacký University Martin Procházka and Rector of CTU Vojtěch Petráček officially presented the anthology Santini and Italy on Wednesday 10 April in the café of the Academia bookstore in Prague

Ten years since its opening, the Network Multimedia Laboratory (SAGElab) at Faculty of Information Technology of Czech Technical University in Prague (FIT CTU) celebrated its 10th anniversary. The aim of the laboratory is to support teaching and education of professionals in the fields of network technologies, multimedia and virtual reality. In addition, the lab also creates a space for research and development of new network applications. SAGElab is a joint workplace of CTU FIT and CESNET association. What is its current equipment and what activities or projects does it address?

Rector of CTU Vojtěch Petráček and Director of the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics of CTU Ondřej Velek today welcomed the Latvian delegation - Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Economy of Latvia Mr. Jurgis Miezainis and Senior Expert of the Ministry of Economy Ms. Angelina Bekas, who were accompanied by Deputy Ambassador to the Czech Republic Mr. Janis Vaivars.

CTU will host the first annual DroneCon conference, organized by the weekly magasine Euro on Thursday, 4 April. The guests were first addressed by the Minister of Transport Martin Kupka in a video greeting, then the conference was opened by the Rector of the CTU Vojtech Petráček directly in the Respirium of the CTU building in Prague 6.