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The new regulation of the Government of the Czech Republic, with effect from 14th October 2020, allows the personal presence of university students at examinations, with a maximum of 10 people during examinations. Also some BUT canteens cannot be opened due to a government regulation from 14th October 2020. The canteen window in the Pod Palackého vrchem complex will remain in operation, and canteens of the Faculty of Civil Engineering, the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication BUT will be available only for employees.

The government's measures newly prohibits the accommodation of students from the Czech Republic on university dormitories, however, it is possible to consider the specific situation of the student. However, the restriction does not apply to foreign students with permanent residence outside the Czech Republic.

With regard to the epidemiological situation getting worse, the Government of the Czech Republic accepted a resolution restricting the operation of universities with effect from 12th October 2020 to 25th October 2020 by prohibiting the personal participation of students in classes and also participants in lifelong learning courses. This cancels the existing exception of laboratory, artistic or experimental work (in small groups), individual visits to libraries and study rooms, individual consultations, etc. Only medical students have an exception (general medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, and other medical study programs). This regulation applies to the whole country.

FIT will give out over two hundred small single-board Raspberry Pi 4 computers with small accessories to first-year FIT students enrolled in the Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence Master's study programme. "Students can use them in a number of courses and, in addition, in the current situation they can work on various school projects from home," says Pavel Zemčík, Dean of the Faculty of Information Technology. However, the Raspberry Pi has a much wider use - students can, for example, connect small electronic devices to it, use it to play multimedia content, run office programs, browse the web or use it to automate their home. "We hope that with this new initiative, we will be able to pass on a positive attitude towards hardware and, in particular, an impulse that might kickstart other interesting projects," adds Pavel Zemčík. Starting from 1 October, all new first-year students of the Master's study programme can collect the microcomputers at the Student Services Department during office hours.