Summer IT School for Girls, Prestigious Conferences, and International Visitors. FIT Was Lively Even in the Summer

Today marks the start of the new academic year 2025/26. Students will not return to lecture halls until September 15, when the winter semester begins, but the faculty certainly did not rest during the summer. The holiday weeks brought both popular traditional events and several new initiatives.

From August 25 to 29, the Summer IT School for Girls took place – the oldest event of its kind in the Czech Republic. It was founded in 2005 by Professor Jan M. Honzík, who pointed out the underrepresentation of women in IT. This year’s edition welcomed 30 high school students. The mission of the Summer School remains the same – in addition to being introduced to the field, participants leave with the conviction that technology and information technology are open to anyone who is interested.

Between June 9 and August 1, the Faculty hosted the 32nd edition of the prestigious Jelinek Summer Workshop on Speech and Language Technology (JSALT). For FIT, this is a significant recognition linked to the long-term and internationally outstanding achievements of the research group BUT Speech@FIT. More than 100 researchers from around the world participated in the workshop. You can find more details about the event in the press release on the Faculty’s website.

During the summer, the Faculty of Information Technology regularly becomes a destination for international students from partner universities. At the beginning of July, FIT welcomed 32 master’s students from Strathmore University in Nairobi, Kenya. Their program combined academic content with familiarization with the Central European region.

This international atmosphere continued with the ten-day BISSIT (Brno International Summer School in Information Technology), which began on August 18. Participants attended lectures in areas such as cybersecurity, machine learning, interactive applications, cloud computing, and robot programming, while also exploring Brno, Prague, and the Moravian Karst.

From August 21 to 27, FIT hosted 29 students from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). Their program included courses on topics ranging from cloud computing and machine learning to cybersecurity, speech processing, and computer vision. The social part was not left out – over the weekend, they visited Prague and got to know Brno through a guided tour.

In August, the Faculty also commemorated an important anniversary – 650 years since the founding of the Carthusian monastery, whose historic premises now house FIT. May this place, where history meets cutting-edge technology, continue to inspire all current and future students.