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In the second half of July, the first year of the international BISSIT summer school (Brno International Summer School in Information Technology) took place at the Faculty of Information Technology. The summer school offered people from all over the world courses in the area of interactive applications, machine learning and robot programming. From 15 to 31 July, the participants were able to attend both theoretical and practical seminars, join organised visits to technology companies and undertake informal trips to interesting places nearby. For more information, see HERE.

This week, the Internal Evaluation Board of BUT granted accreditation for a new Bachelor's and new Master's programme for the following 10 years. The most significant changes concern the follow-up Master's programme, which will offer 17 new specialisations reflecting the needs of the industry and enable graduates to better adapt to new trends (for more details, see HERE). The accreditation was granted as part of the internal approval processes that we could apply due to the institutional accreditation. The Brno University of Technology acquired the institutional accreditation in 2019 as the first technology-oriented higher education institution in the Czech Republic - the accreditation enables it to approve its own study programmes and thus better respond to educational needs and the needs of the labour market.

From 29 to 31 May, about twenty FIT students participated in the Quantum Computing Workshop. The three-day international workshop on quantum programming was organised by the Faculty of Information Technology together with the QLatvia research group of the University of Latvia. At the workshop, the participants were introduced to quantum calculations and learnt how to write simple quantum programmes.

The workshop was preceded by an opening lecture by Miroslav Iwachow, Technical Leader at IBM's industrial section for Central and Eastern Europe, who presented the first industrial initiative to build universal quantum computers for business and science. Abuzer Yakaryilmaz of the University of Latvia was in charge of the workshop itself; we also thank mentors Michal Bidl and Murali Karthick Baskar from FIT and Michal Sedlák from the Slovak Academy of Sciences.