At the end of June, for the twentieth time, Silesian Ostrava Castle transformed into a place where chemistry, physics, natural sciences, and technology came alive through experiments, games, and practical demonstrations.
Colleague Zuzana Jankovská strengthened research cooperation during her internship in France. The project aims to develop sorbents prepared from various types of waste to capture airborne emissions.
On 27 and 28 May 2026, a face-to-face meeting of the partners of the international GeniusFuels project took place at the Institute of Environmental Technology of CEET at VSB – Technical University of Ostrava. The project focuses on the development of the technological connection of gasification and electrolysis for the production of sustainable fuels.
Waste tyres represent a significant material flow, the utilisation of which is among the important challenges of the circular economy. Modern chemical recycling offers not only the possibility of their decomposition but also a way to obtain valuable chemical substances such as limonene and carbonaceous materials with the potential for further industrial utilisation
A meeting of the scientific board of the Large Research Infrastructure ENREGAT took place at the Institute of Environmental Technology. The programme focused on evaluating the infrastructure's activities in 2025, presenting new instrumentation, research results, cooperation with industry, and plans for further development.
The CLAIRO project continues to monitor air quality in the municipal district of Radvanice and Bartovice.
Carbon dioxide is most often associated with emissions and the climate burden. In research, however, it is increasingly appearing in a different role: as an accessible source of carbon, which, under suitable conditions, can be converted into substances usable in the chemical industry.
Carbon dioxide, associated with climate change, can be also viewed as a raw material for the production of valuable chemicals in science. This is exactly what Karolina Karpińska-Wlizło, a Polish PhD student from the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, focused on during her internship in the Heterogeneous Photocatalysis laboratory at the Institute of Environmental Technology (IET), part of the Centre for Energy and Environmental Technologies (CEET) at VSB-TUO.
Scientists from the Centre for Energy and Environmental Technologies (CEET) demonstrated at Earth Day celebrations that even complex ecological topics can be explained in a playful manner. The interactive programme captivated both children and adults, fostering interest in nature conservation.
CEET employees headed to the Beskydy Mountains, conquered Radhošť and strengthened team spirit. The sports day offered physical activity, scenic views and space to relax in nature.
Pupils from Albrechtice Primary School experienced laboratory work at the CEET Institute of Environmental Technology. They decomposed peroxide, decolourised wine and isolated pigments from plants.
CEET hosted Professor Chia from Taiwan, an expert in polymer chemistry, who presented the development of liquid crystals, OLED technology, and the geopolitical context of the region.
Researchers from Lublin have visited CEET. The meeting enabled the sharing of know-how in polymer research and photocatalysis, while opening up new opportunities for future collaboration.
Students from Frýdlant nad Ostravicí visited the CEET laboratories, where they explored the world of nanomaterials and technologies for environmental protection.
How many microplastics are released from a tea bag or a bottle cap? Student Matěj Kovář is seeking answers in the CEET laboratories using infrared microspectroscopy.
Representatives from VSB – Technical University of Ostrava and Ostrava University, project leaders and co-leaders of the INOVO!!! project, met on February 25, 2026 to begin the second year of the implementation of this significant project.
The Centre for Energy and Environmental Technologies of VSB-TUO, the Institute of Environmental Technology, in cooperation with the WSB Academy, is launching the initiative "SMART Partnership for Modern Information," aimed at creating a specialized platform for sharing information between two universities in the Czech-Polish border region. The initiative will support education and expand access to up-to-date information in technical and humanities fields.
At the Technology Days conference, which brought together science and industrial practice, CEET researchers presented their latest findings in the field of sustainable energy.
The new project "O ovzduší společně" brings new tools to improve air quality in the Czech Republic and Poland and opens a topic that affects us every day but often remains without concrete answers.
The 14th edition of the Czech-Polish Catalytic Seminar CzePoCat, brought together dozens of scientists who presented innovations in catalysis.
The CEET employees’ Christmas gathering, held under the motto “Energy in a New Balance,” demonstrated—through focused debates, PhD students’ posters, and the presentation of the Director’s Award—how cutting-edge research is being transformed into practical solutions, and which new projects and partnerships will help shape the energy sector in the years ahead.
On November 4–5, the Institute of Environmental Technology hosted a workshop titled “Monitoring and Removal of Micropollutants from the Environment”, organized as part of the project Innovative Technologies for a Cleaner Ostrava!!! (CZ.02.01.01/00/23_021/0008588), funded by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports and co-financed by the European Union.
The theme of this year’s Czech European Researchers' Night was Wealth. At the Centre for Energy and Environmental Technologies (CEET), we demonstrated that the true wealth of science can be found in transforming waste into valuable raw materials, in developing environmentally friendly energy solutions, and in applying technologies that support sustainable development.
As part of the INOVO!!! project, our researchers participated in a professional excursion organized by DEKONTA, a.s., one of the institute’s main industrial partners. The aim was to become acquainted with practical applications of environmental technologies and to assess their performance under real operational conditions.
Anna Gavlová and Kateřina Smutná from the research group Water Treatment and Analysis represented our team at the 16th Biennial CzWA Conference in Litomyšl.
Rudolf Ricka from the Institute of Environmental Technology (IET) at the Centre for Energy and Environmental Technologies of VSB-TUO focused on developing photocatalytically active materials, particularly for the photocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide, during an internship at the partner University of Trieste within the international SAN4Fuel project.
During the summer, Aleksandra Zielińska and Patrycja Rutkowska, students from the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn (Poland), participated in a two-month internship within the Erasmus+ program in the Water Treatment and Analysis research group.
The 16th European Catalysis Congress (EuropaCat2025) took place in Trondheim, Norway, organized under the auspices of the European Federation of Catalysis Societies (EFCATS) and co-organized by the Nordic Catalysis Societies.
Our colleagues from the Water Treatment and Analysis research group participated in the 77th Congress of Chemists 2025, which took place on September 1-5, 2025, in the High Tatras. This traditional conference attracted experts from all over Central Europe and provided a space for sharing knowledge and new trends in chemical research.
As part of the INOVO citizen science project, we organized a workshop focused on implementing FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) into research practice. The workshop was led by Tomáš Heryán, INOVO project data manager and CEET data steward.
On June 24, 2025, the 19th annual edition of the event “Chemistry and Other Natural Sciences at the Silesian-Ostrava Castle” took place. This traditional event, organized by the Czech Chemical Society, aims to promote natural and technical sciences among elementary and secondary school students, as well as the general public.
In June, our colleagues from the Heterogeneous Photocatalysis (IET) research group took part in an internship at the Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, focusing on teaching and professional collaboration at the Departmento de Engenharia Química within the CERENA research group.
From June 15 to 20, 2025, the international summer school MECAREACT2025 (Mechanical and Reactive Characterization of Materials by In Situ Spectroscopies) took place at Sorbonne University in Paris. The event focused on the application of vibrational and electronic spectroscopies in the study of chemical reactions and was attended by colleagues from the research group Heterogeneous Catalysis (IET).
Long-term cooperation between Dr. Lenka Matějová, head of the Materials Preparation and Waste Recovery research group (IET, CEET), and Dr. Benoît Louis resulted in a joint project in which Dr. Matějová visited the University of Strasbourg.
At the 18th annual INTARG® 2025 international exhibition of inventions and innovations in Katowice, colleagues from the Institute of Environmental Technologies (CEET) presented two applied results of the project “Support for cross-sectoral cooperation in the field of reducing pollutants in the environment and waste utilization.”
From May 27 to 30, 2025, we participated in the 51st conference of the Slovak Society of Chemical Engineering (SSCHI), which took place in the beautiful surroundings of the Low Tatras in Jasná.
Plastic waste is one of today's biggest environmental problems. It pollutes the oceans and land, breaking down into microplastics found in water, air, soil, organisms and the human body. Our colleagues in the Water Treatment and Analysis and Heterogeneous Photocatalysis research groups have therefore joined forces to find a new way to not only remove microplastics, but to make something useful out of them.
As part of the INOVO project (Innovative Technologies for a Cleaner Ostrava Region!!!), members of research teams from the Institute of Environmental Technologies took part in a professional excursion to two industrial plants focused on research, development and production of catalysts.
Today, we had the honor of welcoming pupils and teachers from Bulharská Elementary School to our institute. They visited us as part of the citizen-science activities of the projects foodCIRCUS and Innovative Technologies for a Cleaner Ostrava!!! (INOVO, CZ.02.01.01/00/23_021/0008588), which focus on raising awareness about food waste, waste management, and a sustainable approach to the environment.
Kateřina Smutná and Anna Gavlová from the Water Treatment and Analysis (IET) research group took part in a professional internship as part of the Erasmus+ program. The host organization was the prestigious Bayreuth University in Germany, specifically the Department of Animal Ecology I, which is among the world leaders in the field of microplastics analysis in the environment.
On 14–15 May 2025, our colleagues from the research groups Materials Preparation and Waste Valorisation and Water Treatment and Analysis (IET) visited two major companies active in the field of tyre processing and recycling – Continental Barum s.r.o. and RPG Recycling s.r.o..
On Tuesday, March 18, we welcomed members of the City Council's Environmental Commission to our institute.
The Institute of Environmental Technology had the honour to welcome nice guests from the Čtyřlístek Centre, which provides support to people with disabilities.
On Friday 7.2.2025 another year of the traditional Czech-Polish Catalytic Seminar took place, which this year was attended by over 60 Czech and foreign scientists.
The new project, entitled: Waste as an alternative energy source, sees the prospect of using non-recyclable material that has considerable energy potential. Research teams from the ENET Centre and the IET will investigate the possibility of using it to produce solid alternative fuels that could be part of a future energy mix linked to waste management.
The project entitled "Research of novel sustainable approaches for zeolites and hybrid zeolite-carbon structures synthesis for catalytic and sorption applications", whose principal investigator for the IET is Dr. Lenka Matějová, has been launched.
With the financial support of the European Structural and Investment Funds, the Institute of Environmental Technologies (CEET, VŠB-TUO) is implementing a project called "Innovative technologies for a cleaner Ostrava region!!!" (CZ.02.01.01/00/23_021/0008588) in the period 1 January 2025 - 31 December 2028. The project was created within the framework of the Operational Programme Jan Amos Komenský (OP JAK), call: Inter-sectoral cooperation and inter-sectoral cooperation for ITI.
We are pleased to announce that from January Petra Wojnarová will take on the role of Principal Investigator of the project "Regional and Sustainable Hydrogen Production from Renewable Sources", which was supported in the 7th public competition of the TAČR SIGMA - DC2: Starting Researchers programme.
Within the framework of the project "Building laboratory capacities for the determination of microplastics in drinking, surface and waste water and in sediments and sewage sludge", the instrumentation of the Laboratory ofTrace Analysis was expanded.
On 18 October, the first meeting of the Steering Committee of the COST Action Network for Indoor Air Cleaning (Net4CleanAir) took place in Brussels.
Last week, the cooperation between the research group Water Treatment and Analysis (Institute of Environmental Technology) and the company VODASERVIS s.r.o. within the Innovation Vouchers programme was successfully completed.
On 22.10.2024 a workshop will be held at the Institute of Environmental Technology before the end of the research project involving the research groups Biochemical Processes and Water Treatment and Analysis.
VŠB-TUO has gained significant scientific reinforcement. Since January of this year, Professor Mark H. Rümmeli has been leading the EBEAM (Electron Beam Emergent Additive Manufacturing) project under the prestigious ERA Chairs Horizon Europe program. He relocated to Ostrava from China with his entire family and is gradually building a new research group with a groundbreaking research theme at the Institute of Environmental Technologies.
On 11-14 June 2024, colleagues from the Heterogeneous Photocatalysis and Heterogeneous Catalysis research groups attended the SPASEC-27 and AOTs-28 conferences held in Limassol, Cyprus.
On 9-12 June 2024, members of the Industrial Chemistry research group attended the 13th International Colloids Conference in Sitges, Spain.
Colleagues from the research group Biochemical Processes Dr. Kateřina Chamrádová and Dr. Panagiotis Basinas participated in the Kick off Meeting of the international project Circular solutions for keeping food waste out of Central Europe's schools (foodCIRCUS), which took place in Vienna on 6.6.-7.6.2024.
A new three-step process designed and validated by scientists from the Institute of Environmental Technology (IET) at VSB–Technical University of Ostrava, in collaboration with colleagues from Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen, Germany, makes it possible to convert waste plastics and carbon dioxide into hydrogen and other useful chemical substances applicable in the chemical or petrochemical industry.
Today we had the honour to welcome colleagues from the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen at the Institute of Environmental Technology.
One of the main topics of the research group Water Treatment and Analysis at the Institute of Environmental Technology is the study of microplastics.
On 9 February 2024, the twelfth edition of the CzePoCat seminar took place.
Since 2015, the VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava has been organising an exceptional Art and Science festival that breaks down stereotypes about technology and science. It shows the university in a new light - as a place not only for education and research, but also as a space for creative thinking and playful creativity.
Renowned materials scientist, Mark H. Rümmeli, is set to establish an international research team at VSB – Technical University of Ostrava (VSB-TUO) to utilise electron beams to create novel materials with precise structures at or near the atomic scale.
The event promoting chemistry and natural sciences offered an amazing program for the seventeenth time, not only for pupils and students of primary and secondary schools.
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.
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.
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.
Research group of dr. Lenka Matějová has been cooperating with the University of Lima for a long time.
In the 25th anniversary edition of the Werner von Siemens Awards for 2022, which recognizes the best students, young researchers, and teachers in technical and natural science fields, representatives of VSB – Technical University of Ostrava (VSB-TUO) achieved great success. In the overall number of awards, the university ranked second, behind the Czech Technical University in Prague and Charles University.
On February 17, 2023, the 11th edition of the Czech-Polish Catalytic Seminar CzePoCat took place.
On Friday, 29 April 2022, the 10th edition of the traditional Czech-Polish Catalytic Seminar took place.
The joint publication resulted from the collaboration of researchers from the Institute of Environmental Technology (IET), part of CEET, at VSB - Technical University of Ostrava and the West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Poland.
This year we are organizing the third year of the Summer School with Permoniks, which in previous years has won the favour of children for its imaginative and rich programme. The week-long suburban camp on the premises of VŠB - TUO is intended for children of the second grade of primary schools and multi-year grammar schools.
On May 26, 2021, the international workshop Training 1 “Miscanthus Waste Conversion” for SMEs and professionals was organized by the Technical University of Ostrava in a hybrid format with remote access.
On Friday, 7 February 2020, the Institute of Environmental Technology hosted the 9th Czech-Polish Catalytic Seminar – CzePoCat 2020 in the NA4 lecture hall (New Auditorium, VŠB-TUO), focusing on materials, their characterization, and their use in catalysis and photocatalysis.