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25 July | Scientists from Centre for Energy and Environmental Technologies (CEET) of VSB-Technical University of Ostrava acquired significant project named ExPEDite. This project focused on digitalization of energy technologies will be solved by research team of Smart Grids Lab specialists lead by Dr. Lukáš Proko.

11 July | If you are interested in life cycle assessment and green automotive, do not miss Final Conference aLIFEca organised within project aLIFEca in Congress Centre, Prague on 17th of October.

19. 9. 2023, 8:30 - 21. 9. 2023, 12:00 | A series of three interactive workshops with Dana Driscoll, Director of the Jones White Writing Center at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

22. 9. 2023, 8:30 - 10:30 | A workshop with Dana Driscoll, Director of the Jones White Writing Center at Indiana University of Pennsylvania

21 June | The National Centre for Energy project was assessed as outstanding in the final opposition procedure. The opponent committee particularly appreciated the originality and novelty of the outputs, centre partners' mutual cooperation and the commercialisation potential of the centre, which the researchers will build on in the National Energy Centre II ongoing project.

16 June | On Wednesday, 14 June 2023, an important meeting of experts took place at the office of the Moravian-Silesian Region. Its main topic was hydrogen.

15 June | On 13 June 2023 consortium of the project aLIFEca coordinated by ENET Centre, CEET VSB – Technical university of Ostrava arranged International Webinar aLIFEca where the topic of Life Cycle Assessment in Automotive was discussed.

12 June | VSB-TUO took part in this year's Science Fair organised by the Czech Academy of Sciences. The University representatives offered a wide range of activities, including experiments such as Pharaoh’s Snakes, puzzles, quizzes, a virtual tour of the data hall featuring supercomputers, and much more. This display at the largest popular science event in the Czech Republic was made possible thanks to the joint efforts of CEET, IT4Innovations, the Fraunhofer Innovation Platform, and the PhD Academy.

13. 6. 2023, 10:00 - 11:30 | Centre ENET within project aLIFEca organizes the webinar on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in Automotive.

22 May | NanoOstrava 2023 left participants in awe: esteemed speakers and the breath-taking setting of the Lower Vítkovice area received praise. While the 8th edition of the conference focused primarily on energy and the environment, attendees were also treated to enlightening presentations unveiling the latest trends in nano- and advanced materials research, along with their diverse applications in biomedicine and industry.

16 May | With the subtitle "Energy and the Environment," the eighth edition of the NanoOstrava Conference began on Tuesday. The Conference is traditionally organised by the Nanotechnology Centre CEET VSB - Technical University of Ostrava.

16 May | The first summer school of the European project SAN4FUEL, which brings together scientists from the Centre of Energy and Environmental Technologies (CEET) at VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, CATRIN at Palacký University Olomouc, the University of Trieste, and Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen, Germany, was hosted by Ostrava.

16 May | How to get heat from sustainable sources and can photocatalysis be used to solve the climate crisis? Participants in the May FIP Academy webinar pondered these questions. Research on both topics was presented by Dieter Weise from the Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology IWU and Martin Reli from the Institute of Environmental Technology, one of the CEET units at VSB – Technical University of Ostrava.

19. 5. 2023, 9:00 - 12:00 | We cordially invite you to a lecture by an expert in chemical engineering from Universidade do Porto, Portugal.

15. 5. 2023, 9:00 - 17:00 | Within the SAN4fuel project, the 1st Summer School will take place in Dolní Vítkovice (DOV) Ostrava.

06 December | The way out of the current energy crisis, but also solutions for long-term energy independence and sustainability in the Czech Republic will be sought by academics in cooperation with commercial partners within the National Centre for Energy II (NCE II) using low-carbon technologies.

23 September | Ondřej Kabot from the ENET Centre, a part of the Centre for Energy and Environmental Technologies at VSB-TUO, gathered the experience of foreign colleagues in research on partial discharges in the energy sector during his week-long visit to Carlos III University of Madrid. In the future, the cooperation could lead to a joint research project or publication.

28 June | To convert at least part of the waste into a source of alternative energy or to obtain other valuable products. This is the main goal of the cooperation between the Centre for Energy and Environmental Technologies (CEET) at VSB-TUO and the municipal companies DISTEP and Frýdecká landfill in Frýdek-Místek. The researchers have already completed their first studies and experiments.