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As last year, the awards for the 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 2020/2021. The other names on the make-believe ladder remained the same as well - Tomáš Milet and Jan Černocký for Bachelor's study programmes and Milan Češka and Tomáš Vojnar for Master's study programmes. The competition was announced in June by the Rector of BUT with the support of the Academic Senate; complete results can be found on the BUT website.

The world's fair EXPO 2020 Dubai, which opens on 1 October after a year of delays, will, among others, present a robot from the Faculty of Information Technology. RUDA, a robot for rescuing people in debris and under avalanches, constructed by researchers of the STRaDe@FIT group, will be a part of rotating exhibitions CZ Robot and CZ-EX Machina. The 120-kilogramme robot is now heading to Dubai and will be seen in the Czech Republic Pavilion from 23 October.

World Expo is a prestigious international exhibition designed to showcase industry and culture of individual countries, which has been held since the second half of the 19th century. The Czech exhibition will include a permanent part, which will be integrated into the garden and the pavilion throughout Expo 2020, and a rotating part, which will change every two weeks and will be focused on different individual topics, such as Czech robots. The exhibitions are thematically focused especially on science, research, innovative technologies and modern design.

PHOTO: Technical Museum in Brno

The new semester brings another year of Star(t)up@FIT, a FIT programme supporting student tech start-ups. It is meant for all students who have the ambition to set up a technological company, have an idea they would like to turn into a business or just wish to be involved in new projects beyond the scope of their studies. The first meeting takes place in the FIT Creative Showroom & Open Space premises on Thursday 23 September at 5:00 p.m. More information is available on the website.