Chancellor Angela Merkel visited on August, 25, 2016, the Czech Republic at the invitation of the Czech Premier Bohuslav Sobotka. One of the topics of their discussion were also modern technologies, especially the industrial digitalization. After their meeting at the Office of the Government, Chancellor Angela Merkel visited the Czech Technical University to participate in a debate about Czech-German cooperation in the field of research and development, which was attended by representatives of enterprises and research facilities and where she met her former colleagues Professor Rudolf Zahradník and Zdeněk Havlas from the Institute of organic chemistry and biochemistry of the CAS.