Chalcogenide glasses and thin films are important group of inorganic materials which are suitable for optical and optoelectronic
applications, for example materials for optical and electrical memories. In the frame of the project, plasma processes for
fabrication of thin films of selected perspective amorphous chalcogenides systems - GeGaS(Se, Te), GeAsSe, GeSbTe, etc. - will
be studied. Bulk glasses as well as amorphous thin films prepared by pulsed laser deposition will be characterized mainly from
the point of view of local structure and optical properties. Plasma formed during interaction of intense laser pulses with
chalcogenides will be studied in detail by LDI (laser desorption ionization) time-of-flight mass spectrometry. The results of
chemical diagnostics of the plasma will be correlated with the structure and properties of starting bulk glasses and thin films.
The results will be further used for the prognosis of synthesis of new materials and for the study and simulation of deposition
processes.

In the frame of the project, high quality amorphous chalcogenide Ge-(As, Sb)-Se-(Te) thin films will be fabricated by pulsed laser deposition employing pulsed lasers with different characteristics (wavelength, pulse duration). The fabricated layers will be characterized in terms of the structure, morphology, and optical properties. The deposition process will be monitored by the studying the plasma plume with the ICCD camera fast imaging and space- and timeresolved optical emission spectroscopy. The obtained data should result in deeper understanding of the processes occurring during the thin films growth by plasma based techniques.

The project is based on Priorities 1 and 3 of the Long-Term Plan of the Educational and Scientific, Research, Development and Innovation, Artistic and Other Creative Activities of the University of Pardubice and the Faculty of Chemical Technology for the period 2016 - 2020. It is based on Government Regulation No. 274 of August 24, 2016 on Standards for Accreditation in Higher Education. Its aim is to innovate and improve the teaching of selected economic courses (Management of Chemical and Food Industries, Management Science Modeling) and to prepare new economic courses taught in English (Business Economics and Management in Chemical Industry, New Trends in Business Economics and Management, Project Management). As part of the project, members of the team will, among other things, increase their expertise and language competencies.

Modern historians accept the regular and professional armies for one of the most important attributes of early modern state. Moreover, the
imperial army used to constitute one of the elementary features shared within the multi-national state of the Habsburg monarchy. However,
surprisingly, we still miss systematical research that would connect the changes in the warfare of those times with the history of early modern
aristocracy (the other ?pillar? of the monarchy) in the Czech historiography. The research will focus on: A) the ways the aristocracy from the
Czech lands tried to get used to the development of the then warfare and to the tendencies of the new warcraft that should weaken their
previous dominant position on the battlefield; B) the importance of the military service in the regular state army in the frame of aristocratic
career strategies.
There are two main goals of the project: a) publishing several articles to the topic; 2) a manuscript of a scientific monograph and an
agreement with a publishing house on the publishing of the monograph.

The proposed project is a free continuation of simultaneously solved Centralized Development Program 1: Program for promotion of mutual cooperation between universities called Modernization of instrumentation for higher quality of education of doctoral students. The aim of the project is further modernization of equipment and further integration of the participating schools for the continued higher quality of education doctoral students in science, engineering and technology fields. For this reason, we kept the same name for the project. Participating schools continue to work intensively and continuously discuss achievements whether at personal meetings, conferences and seminars, as well as through electronic communication. In addition, the results of existing cooperation subject of a number of doctoral theses and diploma works.

The main goal of the project is the quality improvement of the teaching process at the department of Transport Technology and Control. Using the digital camera will be captured unique footage as an extension of the teaching process.

Relying on a modernised infrastructure accessing cutting-edge text sources, a strategic network of contacts within specialised foreign institutions and an innovative research approach the department will establish itself as a respectable member of the international community. Research and publications by Ph.D. students will also be supported.

RHINOS aims at increasing the use of EGNSS to support the safety-critical train localization function for train control in emerging regional and global markets. RHINOS adds value to EGNSS by leveraging the results from prior or existing projects, and develops a Railway High Integrity Navigation Overlay System to be used by the rail community. RHINOS pillar is the GNSS infrastructure realized for the aviation application with additional layers that meet the rail requirements in the difficult railway environments.

RHINOS will feature international cooperation with Stanford University, involved in aviation applications since the birth of the GPS, gaining an undeniable knowledge of GNSS performance and high-integrity applications. The ambition is to step beyond the proliferation of GNSS platforms, mainly tailored for regional applications, in favour of a global solution, releasing the potential benefits of the EGNSS to the fast-growing train-signalling world market.

The RHINOS work programme includes the investigation of candidate concepts for provisioning the high integrity needed to protect the detected position of the train, as required by the train control system application which the EGNSS (GALILEO and EGNOS) plus GPS and WAAS constitute.

A further objective of RHINOS is to contribute to the definition of a standard for the Railway High Integrity Navigation Overlay System leveraging the EUUS Cooperation Agreement on ARAIM. The RHINOS dissemination plan includes three specific "workshops" with the rail and satellite stakeholders: at Stanford University (US), in Rome (Western Europe), and in Prague (Eastern Europe).