The Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU) is the leading technical university in the Czech Republic with approx. 15 000 students enrolled in engineering courses.

The Department of Cybernetics of Faculty of Electrical Engineering provides Master and postgraduate courses in technical cybernetics, artificial intelligence, computer-integrated manufacturing, computer vision, pattern recognition, and biomedical engineering.

In 2000 the department became the Centre of Excellence – project MIRACLE (Machine Intelligence Research and Application Centre for Learning Excellence) supported by the European Commission under the 5 Framework programme. The project is aimed at the increased international research collaboration and networking with the key European centres and training of European PhD. and post doc students. The Department became one of the founder members of the newly established Czech Centre of Applied Cybernetics supported through R&D programme of the Czech Ministry of Education.

The Gerstner Laboratory for Intelligent Decision Making and Control was founded in 1996 and supported by the “University Research Support Scheme” grant of the Czech Ministry of Education; it has 30 researchers/academic staff, 34 Ph.D. students. It is a part of the Department of Cybernetics at CTU.