The dilapidated Strahov stadium will become a modern technology center
Clem is created by the innovative world under the leadership of the Czech University of Technology (VUT) in cooperation with the Students’ Union of BUT. In the first phase of the BUT competition, the commentator space in the entrance tribune of the stadium, where the first start-ups will begin to settle. In cooperation with the company Pra Research, which is a Czech company producing peak 3D printers, a test laboratory will be created here, to the dismay of property councilor Jan Chabr that in the future they will be full of much more.
My vision is that it will be our own Silicon Valley, actually Silicon Hill. In other words, the city where the future will be formed, Chabr described on Facebook.
Both national and European innovative projects will be created in Strahov. At the same time, the business and academic environments are fully connected. Ten thousand students in the immediate vicinity of the stadium will thus have the opportunity to work with innovative companies, on the other hand, entrepreneurs from the Czech Republic and abroad will have the opportunity to approach new talents.
We will provide students with a dedicated space where they will be able to get to know and try out the latest technology, develop their ideas and eventually start their own business with them. In return, the partners will be given the opportunity to reach out to new talents, explains BUT rector Vojtch Petrek.
The fact that the center of the economy of the future will be created from the neglected stadium within sight of Prague Castle. This will be helped by the DLTG investment fund, which will be used for reconstruction and a new vision of the city.
The stands, originally for 250,000 spectators, have been repaired, so they will gradually provide enough space for testing technology, including physical testing, such as robots.
Pra Research partner’s successor, Ondej Kaprek, added: Each partner has a slightly different role, and we consider it our duty to be there right from the start.
The construction, which will have several phases, should cost several billion crowns. However, the song is still unknown.
According to the investor, the main thing is to create a functional, but also a symbolic space, only with the support of an innovative spirit and the courage to take risks. For the students, this project is a significant step forward for gaining professional experience and the only step towards the establishment of international cooperation. She took on the challenges that the project brought President of the Student Union Ivana Dvokov.