Press releases

13 June | The LUMI supercomputer is the first pre-exascale supercomputer of the pan-European EuroHPC Joint Undertaking and is now also the most powerful supercomputer in Europe.

08 June | On 25-27 May 2022, a workshop within the framework of the NATO project Quantum5 took place at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the VSB-Technical...

28 April | Data room of IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center boasts not only supercomputers but also high-capacity data storage facilities. The first one is the PROJECT storage,...

12 April | The sun instead of electric furnaces and a cheap nanomaterial instead of gold. This is, in a nutshell, the fundamental principle behind a new process that can speed up and make...

22 February | The date of the science-popularisation event Researchers’ Night falls on the last Friday in September, namely September 30th, 2022. Organisers have revealed the theme of the event...

18 February | Representatives from the Centre for Energy and Environmental Technologies (CEET) at VSB-Technical University of Ostrava (VSB-TUO) have launched the construction of a new unique...

05 January | The Centre for Energy and Environmental Technologies (CEET) at VSB-Technical University of Ostrava celebrated its first birthday with the arrival of the New Year.

17 November | The 58th edition of the TOP500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers was announced today in St. Louis, USA. Karolina, the most powerful Czech supercomputer, located at...

12 November | Until now, observing subatomic structures was beyond the resolution capabilities of direct imaging methods, and this seemed unlikely to change. Czech scientists, however, have...

02 September | Karolina, the latest Czech supercomputer, located at IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center in Ostrava, has reached the 15th place in the Green500 list, which evaluates the...

25 August | VSB - Technical University of Ostrava has been ranked in the prestigious Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), also known as the Shanghai Ranking, for the first time. In...

19 August | The Czech National Quantum Infrastructure with connections to Germany, Austria, Slovakia and Poland is building a cybersecurity hub through collaboration among the Faculty of...

19 July | The e-INFRA CZ consortium has implemented quantum key distribution, which has reached primacy in many ways. Communication secured by encryption through quantum key distribution...

29 June | The Karolina supercomputer located at IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center has ranked 70th in the TOP500 list of the most powerful supercomputers in the world.

09 June | In the scope of a future-oriented collaboration in the field of industrial production, the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is cooperating with the VSB – Technical University of Ostrava...

20 April | In March, a large-scale vaccination centre in Ostrava's Černá louka area became operational. Vaccination according to a simulation prepared by scientists at IT4Innovations can be...

15 March | Online programmes for schools are becoming more and more popular with extended distance learning. Therefore, VSB-TUO academic staff and students are preparing online lectures in...

11 February | It has been more than seven years since the very first supercomputer was launched at IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center in Ostrava. The Anselm supercomputer, from the...

01 February | The Ministry of Industry and Trade has announced the winner of the national call for European Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIH), which, together with European partners, will support...

14 January | In the final quarter of last year there was a competition to name the most powerful supercomputer in the Czech Republic, which will be installed at IT4Innovations National...

19 November | ŠKODA AUTO and the VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava are collaborating on new technologies for assistance systems as part of their joint ‘Follow the Vehicle’ project.

09 November | The Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of VSB-TUO measured obtrusive light in the city districts of Ostrava Třebovice and Krásné Pole on 30 and 31 October 2020....

14 October | In early October, a contract to acquire the most powerful supercomputer in the Czech Republic, which will also rank among the most powerful in Europe, was signed.

15 September | – IT4Innovations has joined the EuroCC project, the objective of which is to establish the National Competence Centre in high-performance computing (HPC) and implement supporting...

21 July | T-Mobile and VSB – Technical University of Ostrava have completed the construction of the first private 5G ready campus network in the Czech Republic. T-Mobile launched the campus...

26 June | Esports is a global phenomenon, which is watched by 454 million viewers and which often surpasses traditional sports competitions in viewership. In addition, during the crisis, it...

10 June | Imagine that you work in a city that suffers from a lack of parking spaces, so you look for a place to leave your car every morning and evening. You lose valuable time every day.

15 May | National coordinators of the Researchers’ Night in Ostrava, in particular the Technical University of Ostrava, managed to receive a grant under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions...

21 April | At the University Open Day last year, the Restoration Workshop took over the Jawa 250 motorcycle from 1939. A year later, the workshop team presented the finished restored...

30 March | The Protolab 3D Printing Center, together with the Faculty of Materials Science and Technology, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and the Faculty of...

27 March | Prof. Jana Kukutschová, the Vice-Rector for science and research at VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, handed over the first 60 pieces of specially made protective plastic...

23 March | VSB – Technical University of Ostrava will prepare thousands of litres of disinfection for the Regional Authority of the Moravian-Silesian Region. For this purpose, the university...

18 March | IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center at VSB – Technical University of Ostrava has offered its users from academic institutions priority access to its computational...

03 March | The restoration workshop of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of VSB-TUO represented the university in February at the Retro Mobile trade fair in Paris. The restoration...

26 February | Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science VSB – Technical University of Ostrava can boast the new laboratory Multimedia Studio for the Production and Distribution of...

24 February | So far, there is no functional 5G network in the Czech Republic. Its launch will become a reality in the near future. Students, teachers and researchers of VSB – Technical...

21 November | Access to state-of-the-art devices where they can experience theory in practice. VSB-TUO will offer this to its students in the extension of the CPIT TL1 building, which is...

11 November | After eight months of work, the LEXIS Project started the first of four planned Face to Face Meetings which is under way in Turin from 10th to 12th September 2019, hosted by the...

16 October | They have spent many years developing a new, unique technology. Today they have a certificate for its uniqueness. Researchers from the Institute of Transport and the Department of...

14 October | The 61st International Engineering Fair (IEF) is held at the Brno Exhibition Centre. It started yesterday, Monday 7 October, and will last until Friday 11 October. Visitors can see...

09 October | Today marks the launch of a pilot project, OPENQKD, that will install a test quantum communication infrastructure in several European countries. It will boost the security of...

02 October | In Ostrava, on Wednesday the 2nd of October 2019, the ceremony for the new supercomputer being put into operation at IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center at VSB-TUO was...

03 September | It has been five years since IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center moved to a new building on the campus of VSB – Technical University of Ostrava.

21 September | This year’s September was marked by several festivities at VŠB-TUO. On Friday, September 18th, the Golden Graduation took place and gathered alumni who graduated in 1965.

03 August | The team of the Department of Robotics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, is finalizing the concept of measurement and evaluation of thermal exposure, to which firefighters and...

17 April | Memorandum of Understanding was signed on 17th April 2015 on the grounds of VŠB-TUO.

15 July | Prof. Ing. Vaclav Roubicek, CSc., dr.h.c. died on Wednesday, July 14, 2010, after a long serious illness. His name was closely connected with the VSB-Technical University of...