Czech Academy of Science (CAS)
• Is the largest public non-university research performing
institution in the Czech Republic
• Conducts research through its 54 institutes, two of them are research-infrastructural
• CAS serves as an umbrella organisation
• Covers scientific fields from Mathematics, Physics, Earth
Sciences, Life and Chemical Sciences
to Humanities and Social Scien
• Has over 11.000 employess (approx. 9.000 FTE), more tham a
half of whom are researchers
• Is regionally spread across the Czech Republic (Prague,
Brno, Ostrava, České Budějovice, etc.)