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Artificial Intelligence, Nature and Urban Life in Ostrava: IRAFM at Evening with REFRESH

How is the relationship between Ostrava residents and nature connected with urban living, and what can artificial intelligence reveal about their attitudes? These questions will be addressed at the next Evening with REFRESH, taking place on 14 October 2026 at 17:30 at OUshop.

30th Anniversary Meeting of IRAFM

The Institute for Research and Applications of Fuzzy Modeling (IRAFM) at the University of Ostrava celebrated an important milestone – the 30th anniversary of its foundation. The anniversary was commemorated during an off-site institute meeting held at the Lorkova Vila mountain hotel in Čeladná. The event combined an academic programme with meetings with distinguished guests from academia and industry, as well as a celebration of a personal milestone of one of IRAFM′s key figures

Participation in the SMPS 2026 international conference

From 15 to 18 September 2026, the IRAFM team participated in the international conference SMPS 2026 – Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics, held at the University of Salento in the picturesque Italian city of Lecce.

International Success of UO Researchers

Researchers from the fuzzy institute, Petr Hurtík and Marek Vajgl, focusing on the artificial intelligence succeeded in two competitions organized by Signate and the Japanese ministry in 2020.