Traditional school co-organized by UCT Prague will take place in Izrael this year in December.

Following four successful years of the Prague Summer School on Advances in Drug Discovery, this year the school will be held Jointly with the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel (www.weizmann.ac.il). The school is co-organized by the University of Chemistry and Technology Prague and Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CAS.

Winter school 2018 website

• Deadline for abstract submission: October 1^st, 2018
• Notification of acceptance: November 1^st 2018
• Winter school: December 3^rd - 7^th

ICETI 2018 - International Conference on Environmental Technology and Innovations will take place on 21^st - 23^rd of November 2018.

The conference will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of scientific papers, covering a number of topics within environmental science and engineering.

ICETI is organized in cooperation between the Faculty of Environmental Technologies, University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, cluster WASTen, z.s.,  Faculty of Environment and Labour Safety, Ton Duc Thang University, Université de Strasbourg - Icube and University od Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna.

This conference brings together engineers, scientists, researchers, students, managers and other professionals in order to address and discuss emerging environmental issues dealing with interactions of industrial development and environment. The success of this conference reflects the critical environmental topics that are discussed as well as the quality of the presented papers. All the papers which are selected for either oral or poster presentations undergo a review process.

The registration is open until end of August 2018.

ICETI conference website

Every year, the European Federation of Corrosion (EFC) awards three grants supporting international mobility and cooperation between European research teams in the area of corrosion and anti-corrosion protection at the world’s largest corrosion conference, EUROCORR. The grants are for early career researchers who would like to visit a foreign workplace under the supervision of experts as part of a short-term study stay.

One of the three grant recipients for 2019 is Darya Rudomilova from the Metallic Materials Construction Group at UCT Prague’s TECHNOPARK Kralupy. Rudomilova will have the opportunity to visit and work in Dr. Michael Rohwerder’s corrosion research group at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung in Düsseldorf, Germany, a world-renowned center for novel electrochemical techniques related to atmospheric corrosion. During her stay, Rudomilova will focus on the detection of hydrogen in the structure of high-strength steel using the SKPFM (Scanning Kelvin Sample Force Microscopy) technique. Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) and Scanning Kelvin Probe (SKP) techniques are also available at TECHNOPARK Kralupy, and the collaboration with the Rohwerder group will allow their wider application in research and development projects.

Photo: Darya Rudomilova receiving the EUROCORR Young Scientist Grant from Professor Wolfram Fürbeth, chair of the EFC’s Science and Technology Advisory Committee (STAC) during the EUROCORR 2018 conference in Kraków.

UCT Prague, Department of Food Analysis and Nutrition, in cooperation with the EU-funded project FoodIntegrity, organizes a Training week in Prague from the 3rd to 7th September 2018.

The event consists of TRAINING SCHOOL on assuring the integrity in the food chain (3-5 September 2018), and SYMPOSIUM for Post-Graduate Students on Food Fraud (6-7 September 2018).

Website of the FoodIntegrity Training week

A Conferral Ceremony of Doctor Honoris Causa upon Prof. Jiří Drahoš, former President of the Czech Academy of Sciences and UCT Prague alumnus, took place on Friday, 24 November, at the Dancing House (Tančící dum) in Prague.

Kobe University is pursuing further academic collaboration between Japan and Europe through its Brussels European Centre and Kobe University Liaison Office in Kraków. As a member of the Kobe University Advisory Board, Prof. Drahoš has shared his vast experience as President of the Czech Academy of Sciences to strengthen the international activities of Kobe University in Europe.

Recognizing his significant role and contribution to Europe, the Czech Republic, and Kobe University, Kobe University has conferred a Kobe University Doctor Honoris Causa upon Prof. Drahoš.