03/2011

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15 Mar 2011 Celebrating the spirit of invention

Czech scientist Professor Blanka Říhová of Microbiology Institute of the Academy of Sciences has been nominated for the prestigious European Inventor Award 2011 for her research and development of synthetic polymeric drugs to combat cancer. The driving force and motor behind the innovation process is people with a passion for discovery. Without the inquisitive mind, the search for new ideas, and creativity of human beings there would be no inventive spirit and no progress. As one of the most prestigious competitions of its type, the European Inventor Award pays tribute to the creativity of all inventors who, in applying their technical, scientific and intellectual skills, make a major contribution to technological impact, economic growth, and improvement in people's daily lives. 

  14 Mar 2011 EUSJA Study Trip to Prague

On the Verge of International Year of Chemistry was the theme of the first study trip for European journalists united in the European Union of Science Journalists’Association (EUSJA) organized by the Czech Science Journalists Club, the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry (IOCB ASCR). The purpose of the three-day meeting (November 29 – December 1, 2010) was to improve communication between the Czech scientific community and society and to promote contacts between journalists in the field of scientific and technical communication. The study trip was supported by the ASCR Centre for Administration and Operations.

  4 Feb 2011 The conference Universities in Central Europe

The conference Universities in Central Europe – Crossroads of Scholars from all over the world (Prague, 29 September 2011 – 1 October, 2011, Charles University, Czech Republic) will follow up on an international meeting dedicated to the issue of Scientists in Exile and the Dictatorships of the 20th Century, which will take place in Prague on May 24‒26 (see http://www.science.usd.cas.cz/cs/aktuality.html) While the May conference focuses on forced migration, the September conference deals with voluntary migration of scientists.

  4 Feb 2011 New Round of Newton International Fellowships

A new round of Newton International Fellowships - an initiative to fund research collaborations and improve links between UK and overseas researchers - has now opened. The Newton International Fellowships are funded by the British Academy and the Royal Society and aim to attract the most promising early-career post-doctoral researchers from overseas in the fields of the humanities, the natural, physical and social sciences. The Fellowships enable researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution with the aim of fostering long-term international collaborations.

  31 Jan 2011 Invitation to the Conference

May 24-26 2011 will take place in the Prague National Technical Museum the international conference SCHOLARS IN EXILE AND DICTATORSHIPS OF THE 20TH CENTURY organized by the Centre for the History of Sciences and Humanities, Institute for Contemporary History of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in cooperation with the National Technical Museum in Prague and the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Applications can be sent before March 15, 2011 to the contact address nytrovaz@vcdv.cas.cz.

  25 Jan 2011 Institutes of the ASCR received support from Research Support Fund

The National Training Fund organized a meeting on the occasion of finalizing the research subprojects, which received the grants from the Research Support Fund. Among the invited guests were Norwegian Ambasador to the Czech Republic His Excellency Jens Eikaas or Josef Syka, the member of the Steering Committee of the Fund.

  7 Dec 2010 110th Anniversary of formulation of the Max Planck quantum theory

For decades, physicists had been trying to understand the surprising results they continued to measure from heating black bodies (a surface that absorbs all frequencies of light that hits it). Try as they might, scientists could not explain the results using classical physics. On December 14, 1900, German theoretical physicist Max Planck (1858–1947) discovered an equation that explained the results of these measurements.

  7 Dec 2010 New International Competition Focuses on Early Career Scientists

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute is launching an international competition to select up to 35 early career scientists working at academic institutions in 18 countries including the Czech Republic.

  8 Oct 2010 Interview with the new Director-General at DG Research

The European Commission has appointed Robert-Jan Smits as new Director General for Research on 2 June 2010. He has a lot of experience in many areas, especially in coordination research programmes and moves to get small and medium-sized enterprises into the Framework Programmes. Previous assignment of Robert-Jan Smits was in JRC as a Deputy Director General. He was also responsible for developing the European Research Council (ERC), the European Technology Platforms (ETPs) as well as for the shaping of the Joint Technology Initiatives (JTI). His interview with CZELO office is focused mainly on the 7. Framework Programme and its results and future perspectives.

  10 Sep 2010 The world’s biggest technology prize is awarded by Finnish

The Millennium Technology Prizes are awarded by Technology Academy Finland every second year as a tribute to life-enhancing technological innovations. The Winner of this prize receive 800.000 € and a prestigious trophy named Peak that is designed by Finnish sculptor Helena Hietanen. This year laureates were awarded within the Millennium Technology Weeks in the Finnish Opera in Helsinki on June 9, 2010. This was the fourth time that the award has been handed out.

  8 Sep 2010 The Czech science at the exhibition Expo 2010

A report about the successful presentation of the Czech Republic at the world exhibition EXPO 2010 in Shanghai caught the attention of all the media immediately over the opening weekend. The Czech exhibit includes also science and remembers the scientific success of prof. Antonín Holý team from the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry ASCR, v. v. i., which helps to save millions of people in the world.

  13 Jul 2010 «Estudi General» European Scientific Divulgation Award

The University of Valencia and the Town Council of Alzira announce the sixteenth “Estudi General” European Scientific Divulgation Award in collaboration with Edicions Bromera and the sponsorship of Bancaixa, with the purpose of stimulating the creation and divulgation of works in simple, straightforward language to provide the public in general and university students in particular with information on scientific and technological advances and the divulgation of useful aspects of any variety of realms of knowledge.

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  15 Jun 2010 Conference and International Summer School on Nanosciences & Nanotechnologies

7th International Conference on Nanosciences & Nanotechnologies (NN10) 11-14 July 2010 and the 4th International Summer School on Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies (ISSON-10) 10-17 July 2010.

  4 Jun 2010 Prague Will Become a World Centre of Speech Processing in 2011

Signal Processing Society is one of professional societies within the IEEE. It is the world’s premier professional society for signal processing scientists and professionals since 1948. The International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) is the main annual meeting of the IEEE SP Society. The 36th ICASSPwill take place at the Prague Congress Centre, May 22-27, 2011.

  4 May 2010 A national tragedy for Poland

Who could have conceived of a more tragic event: in one moment the Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife, Poland’s army chief, the central bank governor, the highest police officers, generals, important people in public life – including the president of the Institute of National Remembrance – high-ranking bishops and representatives of the Antitotalists’ revolt with their families and more all died in this terrible plane crash.

  16 Apr 2010 INTERVIEW WITH PAUL KONRAD LIESSMANN

The Council for the popularization of science of ASCR in cooperation the Philosophical institute of ASCR, organized a press conference and a lecture with Prof. Paul Konrad Liessmann, a well-known Austrian philosopher, awarded by the Austrian State Prize for Cultural Journalism in 1996 and Scientist Prize 2006 (2007).

  8 Apr 2010 The International Year of Biodiversity

The United Nations declared 2010 to be the International Year of Biodiversity. It is a celebration of life on earth and of the value of biodiversity for our lives. The world is invited to take action in 2010 to safeguard the variety of life on earth: biodiversity

  11 Feb 2010 EUREKA balances and looks to intensify international networking beyond Europe's borders

The EUREKA programme celebrates 25 years as a pan-European network for market-oriented research and technological development. Since 1985 this intergovernmental programme supports businesses, research centres and universities who carry out projects to develop innovative products, processes and services. In EUREKA there are no pre-set technological lines. All technologies are suitable, as long as they are innovative. The EUREKA network includes broader European research and development cooperation than the European Union programmes. Practically all European countries plus the European Commission are EUREKA members.

  11 Dec 2009 Interview with a Marie Curie Actions fellow

Robert Izzard is a young British researcher who has a doctorate from Cambridge university, did his post-doc at Utrecht University and in 2008 has been awarded an Intra-European Fellowship for Career Development which is a part of Marie Curie Actions. His research at l'Institut d'Astronomie et d'Astrophysique at l'Université Libre de Bruxelles is focused on the evolution of binary stars. He gave interview about experience with Marie Curie Actions to CZELO office.

  11 Oct 2009 Celebrating Darwin

This year, we celebrate two hundred years since the birth of Charles Darwin (1809–1882), one of the world's most creative and influential thinkers, and one hundred and fifty years since the publication of his 1859 book On the Origin of Species. Charles Darwin presented compelling evidence that all living species have evolved over millions of years from a few ancestors through the process he termed natural selection. In 1831, Darwin set out on a British scientific expedition around the world. In South America Darwin found fossils of extinct animals that were similar to modern living species. On the Gala­pagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean he noticed many variations among plants and animals of the same general type as those in South America. Darwin visited many places around the world collecting specimens to further his studies.

 

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