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The Faculty of Information Technology will continue to be led by its current Dean Pavel Zemčík. It was decided on Tuesday by the members of the Academic Senate of FIT who elected him in a secret ballot by ten out of eleven votes. Pavel Zemčík, who was the only candidate in the election, served as the Dean of the FIT for the past four years.

"FIT is now a renowned, well-equipped and high-quality faculty. But the world is always moving forward. We must work intensively on the development of the faculty rather than only maintain its current condition. The task of the new management is likely to be different from the task of the current one as it will have to work in an environment that can change very quickly, especially when it comes to evaluation and financing of education," considers Pavel Zemčík.

In his upcoming term of office 2020-2024, he plans to focus primarily on supporting the improvement of quality of research and education and promotion of sound economic conditions of the faculty's operation. 

Last week, about 20 students from all corners of the Czech Republic had the chance to try what it feels like to study at the Faculty of Information Technology thanks to the MiniErasmus programme. This programme makes it possible for high school students to experience the life of college students for three days. At FIT, the participants had the opportunity to attend a practical seminar led by Viktor Konupčík, a FIT student, several lectures for first- and second-year students and even one class from the Master's programme, to look around the campus, chat with the faculty students and to enjoy a music evening at U Kachničky.

Methods of forensic work with fingerprints and face images created by the STRaDe research group in co-operation with the police of the South Moravian Region caught the attention of INTERPOL. Martin Drahanský, who is leading the group focusing on research and development of security technologies at FIT, presented these methods at the INTERPOL General Secretariat in Lyon. "Practical examples were based mainly on the work of Ondřej Kanich and Tomáš Goldmann. Both presentations had a wonderful response from the audience and we managed to establish contacts with a number of foreign police departments and forensic laboratories," said Martin Drahanský.