Czech Technical University

The Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU), founded in 1707 is one of the oldest technical universities in Europe and currently the major technical university in the Czech Republic with approx. 1700 members of academic staff. The Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics, and Cybernetics (CIIRC) (http://www.ciirc.cvut.cz) that will participate in the project is a new institute of CTU founded in 2013 with the aim to concentrate an excellent research in the fields of robotics, intelligent, distributed and complex systems, automatic control, computer-aided manufacturing, bioinformatics, biomedicine and assistive technologies. CIIRC CTU supports horizontal collaboration among all parts (faculties and institutes) of CTU and opens the space for mutually beneficial cooperation with other universities, with the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, with industrial companies and international institutions. CIIRC CTU pays special attention to providing information about the potential and the dangers associated with current technologies to the general public.