RESEARCHERS’ NIGHT AT ŠAVŠ! 

• DATE: 25. 9. 2026
  WHERE: ŠAVŠ headquarters Na Karmeli 1457, VTC Na Hejdovce, nám. Míru 27
  FREE admission! UNLIMITED age limit!

PROGRAMME

Škoda Auto Vysoká škola 

Macroeconomics clearly and concisely:
Why is money sometimes cheap and sometimes expensive? Play the role of a bank, a client and a central bank. Interest on a loan does not arise by chance — it is influenced by inflation, central bank decisions, client risk and competition between banks. Why are loans sometimes cheap and sometimes expensive? Who moves interest rates and why do mortgage payments change? You will find out how inflation, interest and the economic situation are related. A short activity for curious children and adults.

Finance through play: try making the right decisions about money!
Do you think you would not get lost in the world of money? Come and try an interactive activity for young and old that will show that financial decisions are not always just about numbers and counting, but sometimes also about luck or bad luck. Short questions and tasks inspired by real-life situations await you, allowing you to discover how you would handle everyday money decisions and how tricky, or surprisingly easy, it can be to choose the right option.

Discover Your Ikigai:
An interactive station for children and adults.
What is Ikigai?
Ikigai is a Japanese concept that means “the reason I get up in the morning.” It helps us discover what we enjoy, what we are good at, what makes sense for the world, and what can be appreciated. In this workshop, we show a simplified, playful version that is accessible to all age groups.

Language lab: activities inspired by the Cambridge exams!
Do you know how good you are at English? Come and test your knowledge! Our language lab will have fun games and activities in English for the youngest participants (under 12 years old). Older visitors (youth 13+, adults and older) can test their level in selected language skills. Each participant will then receive feedback on the level achieved and recommendations on areas where they can further improve.

Formula Student project at ŠAVŠ:
What form can student motorsports take and in what disciplines is it competed? During the presentation of the Formula Student project, visitors will enter the world of student motorsports, get acquainted with the economic side, learn how it is possible to respect sustainability and use the principles of the circular economy when creating a competition product.

Garbology:
What does our own waste reveal about us? At the Garbology station, you will become detectives of everyday life: you will be presented with piles of waste from “model households” and your task will be to discover who lives there, what their habits, interests or professions are. You will discover that even seemingly ordinary things – a receipt, a food wrapper or an old ticket – can tell fascinating stories. Come and experience how waste science works and discover that Garbology is much more than just sorting.

Comic Lab: What Would the World Look Like Without Work?
A fun mini-workshop for children, in which they will receive a simple comic sheet to complete themselves - how would people live without work? What would they do? What would their day look like? Together we will then briefly explore what actually gives meaning to work and why it is important.

The Future of Work 2050:
Activity for adult visitors - guess, discuss, discover what the world of work will look like in 2050?
Participate in an interactive station where you can predict:
- which professions will soon disappear,
- which new ones will emerge,
- and which skills will be the most valuable.
At the end, you will learn a brief scientific summary of trends that may affect our future.

Science play with energy:
During science play with energy, you will be able to watch several experiments in the physics laboratory and see what types of energy we recognize, how energy is conserved in some cases and not in others. In the case of storing electrical energy, we will compare the endurance of an ordinary capacitor and a so-called supercapacitor - how long can such a component last to power, for example, an LED light and what does this time matter to all? Last but not least, you will try to get to know a famous scientist or a significant discovery in the field of physics in interactive games.

PROGRAMME 

Educational Technical Centre Na Hejdovce

Logistics of the future at your fingertips:
How is material flow managed in production halls and warehouses today? Come and experience it for yourself! Control a remote-controlled forklift model and handle pallets like a professional. You will gain a glimpse into the world of digital twins that connect real machines with their virtual counterparts. You will see how modern technologies help to monitor, manage and streamline logistics operations. The future of industry begins with a game!

Play and improve the world around you:
Do you think that process improvement is only for engineers? We will convince you otherwise! With educational lean games, you will try out how standardization, optimization and waste detection work. You will train in workflow solutions and teamwork in a fun way. You will discover that even small changes can lead to big improvements. Learn to think smartly - with a game that will entertain you!

Quality Control in Augmented Reality:
How is the quality of automotive parts controlled in modern industry today? Come and experience it for yourself! You will try to audit the dashboard of a passenger car using mixed reality tools. Virtual information will be connected to the real part right in front of you. You will see how technology speeds up inspection, increases accuracy and helps prevent errors. Take a look into a world where reality merges with the digital world!

Stretching beyond the limit: what can plastic withstand?
Experience what happens to a material when it is “stretched beyond its limits”. On a real-life tearing device, you will see how strength and elasticity are measured and why different materials behave differently. We will explain what terms such as yield strength or fracture mean, and how to identify the properties of a material based on the load-elongation curve. There will be demonstrations on plastic samples – from the first stretch to the rupture. You will find out why some products are tough and others are brittle, and how these tests help in selecting materials for practical use.

KUKA in action: from program to movement, or how a robot moves:
Enter the real operation of a KUKA robotic cell and watch how an industrial robot is programmed and set in motion. You will have the opportunity to take control – on a smartpad and with a six-axis “mouse”, you will try out controlling individual axes and complex trajectories yourself. At the same time, you will gain an insight into the basics of programming a robotic arm and, with the second robot, see how kinematics converts a mathematical description into smooth movement in space. You will experience with your own eyes how automation theory is transformed into precise robotic action.

Digital Mission: Keep the Company Running!
Try out what it is like to manage a company's digital operations. In the interactive mission, you will solve practical situations from the field of corporate IT - from organizing processes and working with data to security and making the right decisions. The activity will show that IT in a company is not just about the technologies themselves, but mainly about how they make the company work faster, safer and smarter.

Would your password be compromised?
Find out what makes a password truly strong. In a short interactive activity, you will create a model password and see why it is not enough to just add a number or an exclamation mark. You will visually compare the role played by the length, structure and predictability of a password and why security is closely linked to the performance of digital technologies today.

KI Data Center:
The KI Laboratory (Data Center) is equipped with high computing power based on HW and SW. It therefore allows solving tasks based on complex computational algorithms of numerical mathematics (especially Finite Element Method (FEM) and Boundary Element Method (BEM). Applications are mainly from the field of physics (fluid flow) and engineering applications (strength calculations). In the field of education, these include, for example, network technologies in practice, demonstrations of work with powerful servers. The entire activity of the data center is monitored using HW elements and software. There is very close cooperation with the "technical" departments of the ŠAVŠ, where the KI data center acts as a service workplace.