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How to plan, monitor and evaluate scientific data more effectively? How can scientists save up to 70% of the necessary administrative work on their projects? CTU Faculty of Information Technology (CTU FIT) is participating as a partner in one of the key parts of the European Open Science Plan-Track-Assess Pathways (OSTrails) project under the Horizon Europe programme in collaboration with 38 partners, which aims to streamline interoperability and machine processability of research planning, tracking and evaluation under the European Open Science Initiative (EOSC).

Three university orchestras presented themselves to the audience in the Bethlehem Chapel, the festive auditorium of the CTU, on 29 October. The audience was also greeted by representatives of all three universities - Vice-Rector Jan Polák for Charles University, Rector Milan Pospíšil for Institute of Chemical Technology Prague, and Rector Vojtěch Petráček for the Czech Technical University in Prague.

The 106th anniversary of the founding of the independent Czechoslovak Republic was traditionally commemorated today by CTU Rector Vojtěch Petráček at Hradčany Square, where he laid a wreath at the statue of the founder of our modern democratic state, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk.

It all started in July 2023, when the head of the Prague Maidan Integration Centre Galyna Andreytsiv asked Dr. Ladislav Serédi to lead the programming courses. In its Creative HUB in Nusle, Prague Maidan supports Ukrainian youth to spend their free time safely, interestingly and usefully. The main goal is to provide a friendly environment where Ukrainian young people can forget about the war and adapt to the Czech environment.

In the first nine months of their collaboration on the European research project PoliRuralPlus and the national research project ALIANCE, Faculty of Information Technology of Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU FIT) and the Plan4all Association (P4A) together with their partners have achieved breakthrough results in the field of Earth Intelligence and Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI). GeoAI is becoming a key tool for the analysis of data generated by our planet. The unique combination of artificial intelligence and geospatial data has led to world-class innovations that have direct applications in agriculture, forestry, crisis management, public health, spatial planning and even environmental protection.

Small and medium-sized enterprises developing AI-powered technological solutions for industry now have a unique opportunity to receive significant financial support. Thanks to the TEF initiative and the European AI-MATTERS network, companies can take advantage of advanced industrial testbeds at leading technical universities in Prague, Brno, and Ostrava under exceptional conditions. In the Czech Republic, a budget of CZK 200 million from European and national sources has been earmarked for these purposes, which companies can draw on in the coming years for highly professional services.

On October 15, 2024, CTU Erasmus Day took place in the atrium of the Faculty of Architecture. After being welcomed by the institutional coordinator, Mgr. Helena Houšková, the representative of the garagErasmus foundation from Italy, Ms. Ilarie Ballarini, presented the foundation's activities and the Erasmus+ Laissez-Passer competition with the possibility of winning 3000 EUR for students who share their experiences from a stay abroad. Then came the most important thing – information about the selection process for the Erasmus+ program.

The University Centre for Energy Efficient Buildings (UCEEB) of CTU in Prague has expanded its activities with another expert team INTENS (Industrial Thermal Energy Systems). The team focuses on the development and implementation of new energy efficient technologies for industrial energy and decentralised heat and power generation. The team leader is Jan Špale, who, thanks to a Fullbright-Masaryk scholarship, also worked on this topic at Purdue University in the USA as part of his one-year internship.

The Advanced Chip Design and Research Center (ACDRC) was opened on Friday, 18 October in the premises of the Cyber Security Hub, z.ú. (CSH) in Brno. The Centre was established as a concrete initiative to develop relations between the Czech Republic and Taiwan. It represents one of the pillars of this cooperation in the field of semiconductors. On the Czech side, the project is implemented by experts from three leading Czech universities - Brno University of Technology, Czech Technical University in Prague and Masaryk University. The aim is to educate new professionals and promote innovation and research in the semiconductor industry, with applications in areas such as cyber security, automotive, energy, biomedicine and telecommunications.

Scientists from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (FEE), Czech Technical University (CTU) and experts from the Czech Aerospace Research Centre will collaborate with global security and aerospace company Lockheed Martin to support academic research into high maneuverability unmanned aerial vehicles capable of flying at low altitudes near obstacles without global navigation support. The respective organizations signed the mutual cooperation agreement today and will collaborate on the project over the next five years. On behalf of the Czech Technical University in Prague the agreement was signed by the rector doc. Vojtěch Petráček.