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Welcome to the Website of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic,

public non-university research institution, which comprises a system of scientific institutes. It conducts its activities in accord with Act No. 283/1992 Coll., On the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (ASCR), and other legal regulations. Research conducted by the ASCR endeavours to advance knowledge on an international scale while however respecting the current needs of Czech society. The supreme autonomous body of the ASCR is the Academy Assembly. The executive body of the ASCR is the Academy Council with the President of the ASCR at its head. Its permanent advisory body is the Council for Sciences, which deals with the scientific policy of the ASCR. These all-academic bodies are always elected for four-year periods.
 

The gas explosion on Monday in Prague has severely affected the building of the Academy of Sciences

2 May 2013

The neo-Renaissance historical building of the Academy of Sciences of the CR was severely damaged on the morning of 29 April 2013 in connection with the gas explosion, which occurred in Divadelní Street on the ground floor of the building across from the side section of the Academy. A massive pressure wave shattered the window panes and damaged the interiors of not only the whole length of the building from the side of Divadelní Street but also broke the glass of the windows towards Krocinova Street, towards the courtyard and some towards Národní třída (National Avenue). The explosion inflicted the greatest damage, the amount of which is estimated at CZK 10 million, in the Library and Head Office of the Academy of Sciences.

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Cubisti Cubismo

6 Jun 2013

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The Director of the Institute of Art History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prof. Vojtěch Lahoda, was involved in the preparation of the international exhibition Cubisti Cubismo, which is open from 8 March to 23 June 2013 at the Complesso Monumentale del Vittoriano in Rome. The curator, Charlotte N. Eyerman, an art historian from Los Angeles, planned it as a wide-ranging survey of Cubists and Cubism, from Picasso, through Russian artists, to figures from the USA (Max Weber) and Great Britain (Wyndham Lewis). She presented Cubism as a trend that eventually influenced all local schools, and emphasised the spread of Cubism into decorative art, architecture (Czech examples were at least shown in photographs and a model of Chochol’s house in Neklanova Street), and into film.

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Art Historian Keith Holz in Prague

4 Jun 2013

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Keith Holz, Associate Professor of the Western Illinois University in Macomb, examines in his lecture held on 12 June 2013 at 3.30 p.m. in the Institute of Art History, Husova 4, Prague 1, room 117, newly available letters by and about Oskar Kokoschka from Moscow and Zürich archives. This lecture revises extant interpretations of his art and activities in Czechoslovakia (1934–1938). Kokoschka's public role as an outspoken advocate for human rights, his pursuit of democracy through educational reform (the Volkshochschule movement), and his role as a critic of fascist governments are related to his less understood, but elaborate, network of supporters, friends and family within and beyond the borders of the Republic.

 

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The Academy of Sciences of the CR has joined the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment

3 Jun 2013

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At the Annual Meeting of The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) in San Francisco on 16 December 2012, a group of editors and publishers of scientific journals elaborated a collection of eighteen recommendations which should increase the quality of research assessment. Inter alia, they point out the fact that the Journal Impact Factor, which serves today as the primary parameter for the comparison of scientific outputs, was originally created as a tool to help librarians identify journals to purchase, not as a measure of the scientific quality of research in an article.

 

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ELI European Project: Construction Begins

28 May 2013

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Other important steps necessary for the globally unique multifunction laser centre, ELI Beamlines, to be created in Dolní Břežany near Prague were taken by the Institute of Physics of the ASCR. On Friday, 24 May 2013, the winner of the competition for the contractors of the main phase of the building of the laser centre, the group of Metrostav, VCES and OHL ŽS, was presented at the headquarters of the Academy of Sciences of the CR in Prague. The new key partner of the project was also announced – the first-class American research centre, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. American specialists in cooperation with Czech colleagues will develop a unique laser system worth CZK 1.1 billion. For more information, see the press release.

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L´Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science 2013

28 May 2013

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This year, the stipend program L´Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science, which already for the seventh year supports the work of gifted Czech female scientists, awarded seminal research projects from the areas of medicine and mathematics. Three-quarters of a million korunas were divided by Ing. Lubomíra Balková, Ph.D. (application of combinatorics in cryptology, practical use e.g. in the protection of credit cards), PharmDr. Martina Čečková, Ph.D. (medicinal transporters protecting the foetus from toxic substances) and MUDr. Eva Froňková, Ph.D. (early diagnosis of immunity defects). You can find detailed information in the press release.

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An Exotic Conifer Helps Destroy Cancer Cells

3 Jun 2013

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A discovery by Czech molecular geneticists

Some scientists compare the search for an effective medicine against cancer, which would besides the successful elimination of cancer cells if possible not have any, or at least minimal, side effects for the organism, to the search for the Holy Grail. Unlike Indiana Jones, who in the film The Last Crusade actually found the Holy Grail, the scientific community had not had such luck as of yet. A distinct shift towards this dreamt-of goal could be the discovery by researchers from the Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Academy of Sciences of the ASCR, which was published recently in the online version of the international journal Apoptosis (see the abstract).

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L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards For Women in Science 2014

26 Apr 2013

We are pleased to inform you that, within the framework of the For Women in Science partnership between the L'Oréal Foundation and UNESCO, we are launching the 2014 call for nominations for outstanding women scientists from all over the world. Five $100,000 Prizes will be awarded in March 2014 in Paris to five women scientists, one per region, for the contributions of their research, the strength of their commitments and their impact on society. Since the beginning of the programme in 1998, L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science has honored 77 Laureates, including two who went on to win the Nobel Prize. For more information click here.

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Manipulation of nanoscale magnetic films by light

22 Apr 2013

A discovery of Czech physicists published in Nature Photonics and Nature Communications
The preparation of high quality nano-scale films of ferromagnetic semiconductors is a formidable challenge. If successful it would inevitably provide unprecedented grounds for exploring new physical phenomena arising from the inteaction of photons with magnets and may suggest new means for the manipulation of magnets in opto-electronic devices at sub-picosecond time scales. The synthesis of prime quality films of ferromagnetic semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As and the discovery of a relativistic effect allowing to manipulate spins in the nano-scale magnet by short laser pulses  was reported by scientists from the joint Laboratory of Opto-Spintronics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University and the Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

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European science journalists in the Czech Academy

21 Mar 2013

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Academic bulletin headed by Editor-in-chief Marina Hužvárová (the Czech EUSJA representative) organized the EUSJA General Assembly, which was held in Prague on March 13–17, 2013. A group of journalists from 22 European countries visited the headquarters of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and also the Lysolaje Campus for two-day Study Trip. During the first day they were shown around the Academy of Sciences Library and were given a lecture of popularization activities in the Centre of Administration and Operations of ASCR. The tour was closed with an evening concert in the beautiful setting of the Czech Museum of Music.

 

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Prof. Jiří Drahoš has been appointed President of the ASCR for another term

14 Feb 2013

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Today at Prague Castle, President of the Czech Republic Václav Klaus appointed Prof. Jiří Drahoš President of the Academy of Sciences of the CR for another four-year term, 2013–2017. At its December session last year, the XLIth Academic Assembly of the ASCR proposed the current president of the ASCR, whose mandate ends on 24 March 2013, for the head of the most important Czech scientific institution. The Government of the Czech Republic discussed this proposal and took it into account on Wednesday, 30 January 2013.

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Open letter to the Ambassador of the Republic of Italy

26 Oct 2012

His Excellency, the Ambassador of the Republic of Italy in the Czech Republic, Mr. Pasquale D´Avino
 
Your Excellency, we address You with following open letter, concerning our official position towards recent decision of Judicial Court in l´Aquilla. This open letter shall be published on the webpage of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic on Friday, 26th of October 2012. We, as representatives of the geoscientific institutes within the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, wish to formally object to Your Excellency with regard to the unprecedented sentences passed against seven members of the National Commission for the Forecast and Prevention of Major Risks, who assessed the probability of a large earthquake in the area of L’Aquila in 2009.  

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Professor Antonín Holý, the discoverer of new antiviral drugs, has died

16 Jul 2012

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After a long illness, Professor Antonín Holý, one of the most important Czech scientists of the 20th century, died on Monday, 16 July 2012. He would have celebrated his 76th birthday on 1 September this year. Antonín Holý, whose professional career was connected particularly with the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry (IOCB) of the Academy of Sciences of the CR, discovered new antiviral drugs, which help cure millions of people all over the world. These substances are the basis for the production of the most effective medicines for AIDS available so far as well as medicines for smallpox, herpes zoster, viral infections of the eye membrane or hepatitis B.

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