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Faculty of Information Technology

Our mission is to provide top technical education in the major fields of informatics, focusing on informatics and communication technologies at bachelor, master and doctoral level, and to conduct research and development comparable with that carried out at leading European faculties of information technology.

In the Czech Republic, we are unique

  • Our studies focus exclusively on informatics, and we have long been training top IT professionals.
  • We cover all key areas of computer science.
  • We offer 10 bachelor's and 13 follow-up master's specializations.
  • We have opened the one-of-a-kind master's programmes Quantum Informatics and Teaching of Informatics for Secondary Schools.
  • Our students study in modern facilities that include 21 specialized laboratories and the facilities of 14 research groups.
  • We were the first in the Czech Republic to establish a Department of Information Security, a dedicated unit for education and research in cyber security.
  • We have been cooperating with the University of Antwerp for ten years. Under the Double Degree programme, students can obtain a diploma from both universities within a single course of study. The cooperation also includes a doctoral programme and the master's specialization Digital Business Engineering, which combines informatics, economics and business.
  • At FIT CTU we successfully carried out the international project CapTTict as its lead partner. Its key outcome is the Danube Digital Accelerator, an ICT incubation and acceleration programme that has supported 30 startups and early-stage entrepreneurs in developing innovative solutions.

We are unique worldwide

  • We were awarded the prestigious Horizon Europe grant PoliRuralPlus worth almost EUR 6 million. The project focuses on supporting sustainable regional development through artificial intelligence and spatial data.
  • We contributed to research on programming languages in the international projects Evolving Language Ecosystems (ELE) and Big Code, led by Prof. Jan Vitek.
  • We are part of the Research Center for Informatics (RCI) project, which links research activities across CTU faculties.
  • Together with Dutch partners, we developed the groundbreaking web portal Data Stewardship Wizard, which makes work easier for researchers and data stewards in today's era of rapidly growing data volumes.
  • We are the best at forecasting the weather and modelling planetary atmospheres — our scientists won both the exoplanet atmosphere modelling competition and the competition for the most accurate weather forecast at the prestigious international conference NeurIPS 2022.
  • As a partner, we are involved in one of the key components of the European project Open Science Plan-Track-Assess Pathways (OSTrails) under the Horizon Europe programme.
  • We are a key partner in the Horizon Europe project FOCAL (Efficient Exploration of Climate Data Locally), which aims to make climate data more usable for urban planners, forest managers, policymakers and regional authorities.
  • We are part of the international cooperation project InnoBridgE in the Czech–Saxon border region, dedicated to developing digital skills and artificial intelligence in small and medium-sized enterprises.

What we are planning

  • The FIT CTU Expert Institute for information and communication technologies and cyber security.

We are members of

Our academic staff are members of

  • International Association for Cryptographic Research
  • EUROMICRO (Board of Directors – Representative for the Czech Republic)
  • The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

What we are proud of

  • We train top IT professionals who are in demand with employers across all industries.
  • We have modernized the master's programme Informatics, expanded our master's offering with the programme Applied Informatics and the new specialization Visual Computing and Game Design. At the same time, we are strengthening teaching in the fast-growing fields of quantum informatics and applied artificial intelligence.
  • Our students regularly succeed in national and international competitions such as Hack Košice, Bohemia Game Jam, Mobility Hackathon, Ctrl+Space CTF and Hack jak Brno.
  • We have founded the new Algorithms Laboratory (AlgoLab).
  • We have modernized our networking classroom in cooperation with our partner company CDN77.
  • We host major professional conferences such as the Prague Stringology Conference, Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems (DDECS), the Prague Embedded Systems Workshop (PESW) and the Prague PostgreSQL Developers Day (P2D2).
  • We have our own recording studio with professional equipment for producing online teaching materials.
  • We publish the popular-science podcast Jedničky a Nuly (Ones and Zeros), which introduces FIT researchers and current topics from the world of information technology.
  • For applicants and secondary schools we organize Open Days, professional workshops, the Be a FIT Student for a Day programme, expert lectures, summer schools, excursions, the FIKS seminar and more.
  • For our students we run the Research Summer (VýLet), which connects study with scientific and research practice.
  • Through their final theses and national and international hackathons and competitions, our students come up with innovative ideas that benefit not only the professional community.
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