European science journalists visit the Czech Academy

The Academic bulletin and its Editor-in-chief Marina Hužvárová (the Czech EUSJA representative) organized the European Union of Science Journalists’ Associations (EUSJA) General Assembly, held in Prague on March 13–17, 2013. On a two-day Study Trip, journalists from 22 European countries visited the headquarters of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic including its Lysolaje Campus.
During the first day they were taken on a tour of the Academy of Sciences Library and heard a lecture on popularization activities in the Centre of Admi­ni­stration and Operations of ASCR. The day ended with an evening concert in the beautiful setting of the Czech Museum of Music.
Led by EUSJA President Barbara Drillsma (Great Britain), the journalists were welcomed at the Institute of Geology (IG) by the ASCR President Jiří Drahoš, IG director Pavel Bosák, IEB director Martin Vágner and Ivan Kašík on behalf of IPE director. Following that they were given an overview of that institute’s work and that of the Laboratory of Optical Fibers of the Institute of Photonics and Electronics. During the afternoon, the group explored the Institute of Experimental Botany (IEB) and the Institute of Chemical Processes Fundamentals (ICPF), where two guidesd tours were arranged. A description of the institute’s research activities by the director of ICPF Miroslav Punčochář was followed by a visit to the Institute’s laboratories of basic and applied research.