The continuing development and improvement of the Academy’s Strategy AV21 innovative project was the chief item at the Academy Assembly’s XLVI Meeting. Among invited guests were Pavel Bělobradek, Deputy Minister for Science and Research; Ivan Netuka, president of the Czech Science Foundation; Rut Bízková, Chair of the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic; Jaromír Veber, Deputy Minister for higher education and research, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, and others. The Academy Assembly is the foremost priority decision-making body of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The meeting took place April 23 at the Municipal House in Vinohrady.