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Results of the "Best Teacher at FIT according to the Students’ Evaluation"poll for the year 2019/2020

The awards for best teachers at the faculty will go to Dana Hliněná for Bachelor's study programmes and Jiří Jaroš for Master's study programmes. These two teachers have received the most votes from students in the best teacher survey for the academic year 2019/2020. Tomáš Milet and Jan Černocký for Bachelor's study programmes and Milan Češka and Tomáš Vojnar for Master's study programmes also received many votes. The competition was announced in May by the Rector of BUT with the support of the Academic Senate; complete results can be found HERE.  

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Espressif Systems became FIT's new industrial partner

The hardware company Espressif Systems has become a new industrial partner of FIT. Shanghai-based company with a development centre in Brno, will co-operate with the faculty on research in the field of security, wireless solutions, robotics and image processing, and it will also share its knowledge of development on its platforms with students. If you are interested in these topics, take a look at the collaboration opportunities on the FIT website. You can also learn more about the partnership on the company's website

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Government regulations allow presence at examinations and close canteens

The new regulation of the Government of the Czech Republic, with effect from 14th October 2020, allows the personal presence of university students at examinations, with a maximum of 10 people during examinations. Also some BUT canteens cannot be opened due to a government regulation from 14th October 2020. The canteen window in the Pod Palackého vrchem complex will remain in operation, and canteens of the Faculty of Civil Engineering, the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication BUT will be available only for employees.

The government's measures newly prohibits the accommodation of students from the Czech Republic on university dormitories, however, it is possible to consider the specific situation of the student. However, the restriction does not apply to foreign students with permanent residence outside the Czech Republic.

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FIT will host an online debate of four important personages in the field of IT

Four prominent personages of the "Czech Silicon Valley" will meet virtually on Thursday, 22 October, at the seminar called Od studenta k CEO/CTO (From Student to CEO/CTO) (FB event HERE). During the virtual meeting, they will discuss their path to exceptional technology, how they were able to build a product and finalise it or succeed on the market with it. Invitations of FIT have been kindly accepted by:

       Martin Cígler the holder of the IT Personality of the Year award and the FIT Information Technology Development Merit Medal, but above all, he is the founder of a company, which under his leadership grew from a small Brno company into an international holding - Solitea - with a turnover in the amount of two billion Czech crowns.

       Jan Najvárek the co-founder and co-owner of ARTIN, one of the most innovative Czech companies, which employs three hundred of the brightest minds in Brno. He is also involved in the development of RoboAuto and BringAuto autonomous vehicles.

       You can meet Jan Kořenek, who is an academic achieving excellent scientific results, at FIT. However, he is also the founder of the Invea Tech spin-off - two world-famous companies Flowmon Networks and Netcope Technologies, which are among the industry leaders and deliver solutions to industry giants such as Intel.

       Zbyněk Poulíček founded his company GINA with his classmates when he was still studying at FIT. Their idea, which was praised even by Bill Gates, is now helping to save lives all around the world.

We invite you to this Virtual Meeting. You can find more information on the event here.

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The government closes universities for students for two weeks

With regard to the epidemiological situation getting worse, the Government of the Czech Republic accepted a resolution restricting the operation of universities with effect from 12th October 2020 to 25th October 2020 by prohibiting the personal participation of students in classes and also participants in lifelong learning courses. This cancels the existing exception of laboratory, artistic or experimental work (in small groups), individual visits to libraries and study rooms, individual consultations, etc. Only medical students have an exception (general medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, and other medical study programs). This regulation applies to the whole country.

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