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: Research and development in enterprises operating in application sectors of the National Research and Innovation Strategy for Smart Specialisation of the Czech Republic
• Miroslav Kostić: What are the characteristics and economic development of the main recipients of public support to business R&D?
• Zdeněk Kučera, Tomáš Vondrák, Luboš Král: Artificial Intelligence – where does the public support of R&D in the Czech Republic go and what are its results?