News

If you are considering moving your research towards a business venture and would like to receive specific recommendations and tips, then the Innovation Day event is just for you. It will take place on Monday, October 6, 2025, from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the BUT Rector's Office (Antonínská 1, Brno).

What can the event offer you?

• You will learn about what the university's Knowledge Transfer Department (OTZ) offers in the area of business support and how it can support your business plan.
• You will understand the concept of the "startup/spin-off BUT" brand and the benefits of using it.
• You will learn about specific examples of successful companies that have emerged from the BUT environment, including Codasip, which is associated with our faculty. The Innovation Day will offer an opportunity to talk to the founders of companies that have achieved success on the international market.
• You will learn how the university approaches new legal provisions in the field of knowledge transfer and the direction in which support for entrepreneurial activities at BUT is heading.
• And, of course, there will be practical recommendations for the use of educational activities, competitions, and support programs for entrepreneurs.

The event will feature presentations by BUT Rector Prof. Ladislav Janíček, BUT Vice-Rector for Research and Knowledge Transfer Prof. Martin Weiter, entrepreneurs and BUT alumni Karel Masařík (Codasip), Milan Šimek (Sewio), and Jan Neuman (Nenovision), and many others.

Participation is free of charge, but prior registration is required. Please register via IS BUT by October 2, 2025, or until maximum capacity is reached.

For more information, visit the event website.

This initiative is part of Innovation Week, in which BUT is a key academic partner.

Last week, our researchers involved in the VASSAL project (funded by the EU Twinning program) had the opportunity to visit TU Graz and organize an introductory workshop with a dedicated forum as part of the Runtime Verification 2025 conference. The forum brought together researchers from the project and the wider runtime verification community. The workshop program included invited talks by leading experts, presentations by researchers from FIT, and selected contributions from the runtime verification community. Filip Macák, Milan Češka, David Chocholatý, and Tomáš Dacík presented their contributions on behalf of BUT; Roderik Valko introduced the VASSAL project.

Dr. Dejan Nicković (Austrian Institute of Technology) was invited to the workshop program. He is a leading expert in the field of runtime verification and cyber-physical systems, and his research focuses on time property monitoring, contract-based design, and real-time systems. Another guest was Wolfgang Ahrendt, professor at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg. His scientific contribution lies in deductive software verification, runtime verification, and combinations of static verification with runtime verification and testing.

Participation in the workshop itself demonstrates the scientific excellence of our colleagues, and the event also promoted a valuable exchange of experiences with the international community. The main organizer of the workshop, Milan Češka, gave a positive assessment of the event: "The atmosphere of the workshop was relaxed and friendly, but at the same time professionally at the highest level. As part of the VASSAL project, we are very pleased to have been able to be part of RV Graz 2025 and organize our own forum. During the workshop, we had the opportunity to hear inspiring contributions from our doctoral students and colleagues from TU Wien and CEA. I most appreciate that the program was designed to create space for open discussion and the search for new opportunities for collaboration." Discussions during the forum highlighted the importance of linking theoretical progress with practical challenges in the field of verification. For the VASSAL project itself, the event was a milestone in strengthening ties between institutions and demonstrated the project's role in shaping the future of reliable and verifiable systems.

The BoosterChallenge summer student project competition was held for the sixth time this year. The event originated at FIT BUT, but gradually gained the support of other BUT faculties and is now being held for the second year under the auspices of VUT contriBUTe.

In the first half of September, 13 successful projects were announced, and their authors received financial rewards. FIT students were very successful in the competition again this year: four teams were composed exclusively of students from our faculty. Projects with a significant or exclusive FIT contribution included:

• cyrcID is a software platform designed to support the implementation of a digital product passport that provides information about the manufacturing process, materials used, and environmental impact. Our faculty was represented in the team by Tobiáš Frajka and Adam Pastierik.
• Dominik Honza created a fully functional application called RUFFE – Revíry, which is built on a modern technological structure, is sustainable in the long term, and is actively used by the fishing community.
• Adriana Buchmei's Poseify project has moved into the functional application phase with an implemented machine learning model for recognizing yoga poses.
• The SOFOS project addresses minor but, in practice, fundamental problems associated with service in catering establishments. Students Jan Lindovský and Marcel Mravec have created a detailed, technically well-thought-out functional prototype.
• Alex Marinica's VitalMap project is unique in terms of the scope of work that one student has accomplished over the summer. What's more, it operates in the difficult field of biomedical engineering. The goal is ambitious: to create a mobile application for diagnosing mild concussions using pupil response (changes in the size of the pupil).

We congratulate all the winners and thank them for the energy they put into their projects.