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CEFRES Platform and its new premises within the Czech Aca-demy of Sciences were inaugurated on October 7–8, 2015. In 2015, the CAS built a brand new library in order to host CEFRES’s more than 6,000 volumes along with its team and Prague’s Francophone readers. The new library was inaugurated during a ceremony in the presence of French Ambassador Jean-Pierre Asvazadourian, President of CAS Jiří Drahoš and Rector of Charles University Tomáš Zima.
CEFRES (French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences) was founded in Prague in 1991 with the aim to restart scientific exchanges between France and Central Europe as the latter underwent major changes after the fall of communism. One of CEFRES’s tasks since then has been to build up a network of research teams between France, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.