The first issue of this year's Echo magazine presents two articles in English. They are extensive analytical articles regarding activity of coordinators from EU member countries in SC7 – Secure societies in H2020 and at the quality of RIA and IA proposals submitted by coordinators from member countries and Nano-Bio-Medical Research in the Czech Republic and EU Framework Programs namely with contributions of D. Frank and P. Pracna. Another articles in English is an interview with the director of the European ESS Infrastructure, which touches Brexit.
The contributions in Czech are an article about the EU transition to the circular economy, and the text about results of the TWINNING and ERA Chairs 2017 calls.

(To make the English part of the magazine at least a bit visually different from the Czech one, it will be printed on colored paper from this number on.)

• Zdeněk Kučera, Tomáš Vondrák: International cooperation in research and development of Artificial Intelligence – publication and patent activity
• Vladislav Čadil: Behavioural Additionality Evaluation of industrial R&D programmes, the case of the TIP programme
• Vlastimil Růžička: The share of private sources in the revenues of Czech public universities
• Otakar Fojt, Aleš Vlk: How to perceive quantitative indicators when assessing research policies