Reports

The celebration of 100 years of the Dejvice Campus took place on Vítězné náměstí in Prague 6 on Wednesday 11 June, with the participation of representatives of all the institutions that make up the campus. The rich programme attracted thousands of visitors, culminating in a concert by Monkey Business and video mapping by David Vrbik from FEE CTU.

On 11 June 2025, participants of this year's StreTech showcase of high school students' work filled a long corridor on the 4th floor of Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Faculty of Electrical Engineering with presentations and models of their projects. Over 90 talented and active creators from more than 60 high schools from all over the Czech Republic took part in the traditional High School Technology event.

We commemorate the centenary of the founding of the Dejvice Campus, an important crossroads of Czech science and education. Leading personalities of scientific life and important graduates of the local universities have contributed to the development of the whole society over the decades. Let us mention Otto Wichterle, Vladimir Prelog, Antonín Holý, František Křižík and Rudolf Zahradník.

On Tuesday, consortium agreements were signed at Czech Technical University in Prague grounds between CTU, the University of Defence and other individual institutions on their connection to the IBM quantum network. IBM is the only provider of these services in the world and the CTU was the first entity from the Czech Republic to join its network at the beginning of last year.

After President Petr Pavel decided to dismiss the university's rector, Vojtěch Petráček, at the suggestion of the CTU Academic Senate, it was on the Prime Minister Petr Fiala to sign the dismissal as well.

The Science Fair, the largest science festival in the Czech Republic, is organised by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. And every year the fair gets bigger and bigger. This year, too, it invited visitors to a record number of exhibitors.

The design duo Kateřina Goryczka and Oto Melter are celebrating international success - their project Bench X, created at the Laboratory of Innovation at the Klokner Institute of CTU, has won a prestigious award in the SIT Furniture Design Award 2025. It was awarded in the Public Park & Public Area Furniture category for its innovative combination of technology, aesthetics and social impact.

Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering CTU in Prague hosted a number of leading Japanese and Czech experts in the field of quantum technologies on 27-29 May 2025. This was the second meeting, which follows the first workshop held in Tokyo in May 2024. The idea to organize joint meetings in the dynamically developing field of quantum technologies was born in 2023 during bilateral consultations between the Government of the Empire of Japan and the Czech Republic and on the initiative of the Ambassador of the Empire of Japan, His Excellency Hideo Suzuki, prof. Akira Furusawi (University of Tokyo), Prof. Radim Filip (Palacký University) and Prof. Igor Jex (Czech Technical University in Prague).

When in May 2015, the then Dean of the Faculty, Prof. Miroslav Svítek, invited several of his colleagues from all over the world to a small meeting whose main topic was the newly emerging field of Smart Cities, few had any idea to how an important international event this symposium would grow into.

On 21 May, the Academic Senate of the CTU approved the proposal to dismiss Vojtěch Petráček from the post of Rector of the university. At the proposal of the Senate, President Petr Pavel decided to dismiss Petráček on 30 May. The dismissal must still be signed by Prime Minister Petr Fiala.