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On 12th September we had the pleasure to welcome to our department pupils from Elementary school of Professor Otokar Chlup of the Faculty of Education of Charles University. Pupils (maybe our students in the future) have seen the large lecture hall and our laboratories and also tried some practical experience, such as glass engraving and plaster casting.

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The Ceramics in Europe 2022 event organized by the European Ceramic Society was held in Krakow  from the 10th to 14th July 2022. This event had brought together 3 important international conferences: XVIIth ECerS conference and Exhibition (ECerS XVII), 9th International Ceramic Conference (ICC9) and Electroceramics XVIII.

PhD students from our institute presented their work both in oral and poster sessions:

• Vojtěch Nečina – The role of fluoride additives in the densification of ceramics – How does it work?
• Soňa Hříbalová – Light scattering predictions for transparent ceramics with birefringent grains
• Petra Šimonová – Shrinkage-free sintering of tin oxide ceramics – Monitoring microstructure and elastic property changes by temperature-dependent impulse excitation
• Soňa Hříbalová – Analytical modeling of the effective properties of lead-free piezoelectric ceramics
• Petra Šimonová – Elastic property evolution of silicate ceramics in the CaO–Al2O3–SiO2 system determined via temperature-dependent impulse excitation

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We encounter glass at every step, whether in the form of glass, bottles, windows of jewelry. But the variety of glass forms certainly does not end there. Despite being invented more than 4000 years ago, glass is still among the most modern materials. we find it in the medicine, in space telescopes, it is used in construction, or even in lasers.

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The United Nations elected the year 2022 as the International Year of Glass.

The International Glass Commission (ICG), the Community of Glass Associations (CGA), and ICOM-Glass promote 2022 as the International Year of Glass to emphasize its scientific, economic and cultural role.

Glass supports many vital technologies, or is even their basis, it facilitates sustainable development and enriches our lives, but often goes unnoticed. As part of the International Year of Glass 2022, a number of activities will take place around the world showing all the mentioned roles of glass as an artistic, historical but also highly modern material. Scientific and technological congresses and seminars, industrial fairs, art, and historical exhibitions will take place.

The Czech Republic, together with Slovakia, is also actively participating through the Czech Glass Society and the Slovak Glass Society and coordinates activities in Central and Southeastern Europe.

The entire glass year is framed by the February opening conference in Geneva and the December closing conference in Tokyo. The main scientific meeting will be the 26th International Glass Congress in Berlin. It is also planned to publish a number of special issues of professional glass magazines, dedicated to the Year of Glass. On the occasion of the Year of Glass, the book Welcome to the Age of Glass will be published.

Information on the Year of Glass with the most important events can be found at www.iyog2022.org. A detailed, continuously updated calendar of events in Central and South-Eastern Europe at https://askpcr.cz/aktivity/rok-skla-2022.