On 4-6 September, 2024, UCT Prague will host 20th international students’ conference Network Young Membrains Meeting 2024. The event is a traditional meet-up of students and all young researchers studying membrane processes.

Students may present their work through an oral lecture or on a poster format and compete for prize money for the best presentation/poster. Participants may look forward to interesting plenary lectures about state-of-the-art, use of artificial intelligence to solve complex industrial problems or how to build a technological start-up company based on their ideas. The conference program also include excursion to Membrane Innovation Centre (MemBrain) and a social event to boost the networking.

All students, postdocs and young researchers interested in membranes and membrane processes are invited. Let’s meet up, inspire, and get inspired!

Abstract submission deadline: 17 June, 2024

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At the end of May, UCT Prague’s Rector Milan Pospíšil hosted a reception for representatives from NUS, the Admiral Makarov National University of Shipbuilding (Mykolaiv, Ukraine). NUS is a UCT Prague partner university for the DETECT! grant funded by the European Union. In Spring 2022, shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, NUS received financial assistance followed by humanitarian aid from UCT Prague in cooperation with ADRA International.

The recent meeting cantered around mutual cooperation. After the Ukrainian partners expressed gratitude for financial and moral support, possibilities for continued cooperation in the reconstruction of the war-ravaged country were discussed. Pospíšil proposed areas for future collaboration including materials, the environment, and energy conservation.

The meeting also included a report from NUS about DETECT! grant progress and results. While in Prague, the guests, including two students, took part in the DETECT! partners’ meeting as well as a hands-on workshop on Creative Digital Fabrication and Automation, a weekly event which takes place on the UCT Prague Jankovcova Street premises, in cooperation with the Maker Institute.