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ORION is a new collaborative European project to explore ways in which research and funding organizations in life sciences and biomedicine can open up the way they fund, organize and do research. CEITEC is one of the nine partners in the project.

Last July 26 – 27 the workshop Additive Manufacturing as a Tool to Create Life in 3D was held at CEITEC-BUT with the funding of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action and co-financed by the South Moravian Region under grant agreement No. 665860. https://www.ceitec.eu/matporcessing/activities/

The European Ceramics Society (ECerS) is a non-profit federation of national ceramic companies associating their individual members. Every two years, the Young Scientist Award is awarded to scientists under the age of 40 who have made significant contributions to ceramics research. The condition for inclusion in the competition is, among other things, membership in a national ceramic organization that has been affiliated with the European Ceramic Society for at least two years.

Two new research groups were established at CEITEC MU in July. They will deal with the research area leading to more accurate diagnosis and better focused therapy not only for neoplastic diseases but also for other illnesses. Both newly appointed leaders, Michal Šmída and Robert Vácha, are bringing to CEITEC long-standing experience from the acknowledged European research institutes, and they both have been chosen on the grounds of their so-far results gained in their fields of research.

CEO of CEITEC BUT Radimir Vrba, and CEO of South Korea's Gyeongnam Technopark Lee Tae-sung, signed a Memorandum of Understanding on 27 July 2017 to ensure increased level of cooperation on advanced materials and nanotechnologies.

Joint replacements or bulletproof glass can be made by scientists from the CEITEC Brno University of Technology. In several laboratories, they are working on tens of millions of crowns to improve the properties of the ceramic material and to expand the possibilities of its use.

BBC Wold Service (from 8:46) – Listen to Prof. Ivan Rektor introducing CEITEC MU and research about holocaust survivors and changes in their brain and DNA.

Research infrastructure in structural biology Instruct, where CEITEC MU proudly participates, is formally ratified by the European Commission as a 17th ERIC (European Research Infrustructure Consortium) and to be celebrated at the Royal Society, London 18th July.

On June 12 - 17, 2017 has taken place an international summer school with a focus on presenting current research trends with key areas of technology such as nanoelectronics, renewable energy and the application of life science.

See photogallery bellow. Author is  Michal Potoček. 

Project AutoDrive, financed by ECSEL Joint Undertaking under the Horizont 2020 research and innovation programme, launched its research activities. The aim of the project is the development of technologies for automated and automatic vehicles and their verification.