07 February 2025 | 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.

03 February 2025 | 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.

25 January 2025 | 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.

02 January 2025 | 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.

22 December 2024 | 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.

21 November 2024 | 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.

19 October 2024 | On 18 October, the first meeting of the Steering Committee of the COST Action Network for Indoor Air Cleaning (Net4CleanAir) took place in Brussels.

07 October 2024 | 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.

02 October 2024 | 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.

20 June 2024 | 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.

14 June 2024 | 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.

10 June 2024 | On 9-12 June 2024, members of the Industrial Chemistry research group attended the 13th International Colloids Conference in Sitges, Spain.

07 June 2024 | 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.

30 May 2024 | Today we had the honour to welcome colleagues from the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen at the Institute of Environmental Technology.

24 May 2024 | One of the main topics of the research group Water Treatment and Analysis at the Institute of Environmental Technology is the study of microplastics.

01 February 2024 | The Czech Society of Industrial Chemistry is organizing again this year the international chemical-technology conference.

11 January 2024 | The pioneering EBEAM (Electron Beam Emergent Additive Manufacturing) project, which aims to push the boundaries of materials research, has been officially launched today at the VSB-Technical University of Ostrava (VSB-TUO).

23 October 2023 | How to abandon the use of fossil fuels and switch to sustainable energy is presented from today by a unique polygon CEETe, which was created by scientists of the Centre for Energy and Environmental Technologies (CEET) on the premises of the VSB - Technical University Ostrava.

18 October 2023 | The Centre for Energy and Environmental Technologies (CEET) at VSB-TUO is making a significant contribution to energy transition and sustainability.

18 July 2023 | 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.

21 June 2023 | 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 2023 | 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.

12 June 2023 | 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.

22 May 2023 | 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 2023 | 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 2023 | 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.

14 April 2023 | Research group of dr. Lenka Matějová has been cooperating with the University of Lima for a long time.