In this issue, we feature an interview with the president of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (AS CR), Prof. Jiří Drahoš. The interview focuses on funding science and research at AS CR and the methodology that has become the universal tool for distributing money to the whole Czech science as a whole. On the basis of this government-conceived tool, the institutional financial grant for the AS CR should be reduced by about 50 percent by 2012. and Marina Hužvárová.
V tomto roce se uskuteční další komplexní evaluace pracovišť Akademie věd ČR, tentokrát za období 2010-2014. Některé jeho nové aspekty přiblížila prof. Eva Zažímalová, která v Akademické radě AV ČR odpovídá za přípravu hodnocení a je rovněž zastupující osobností při řešení koncepčních otázek podpory vědy z veřejných prostředků. and Marina Hužvárová.
What exactly does the term "Excellence in Science" mean was the subject of a talk by the president of Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Václav Pačes for the Academic bulletin. and Marina Hužvárová.
In the presence of Deputy Minister of Education, Youth and Sports, Stanislav Štech, Rector of Charles University Tomáš Zima, Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Vladimír Mareček, and other important guests, the implementation phase of the BIOCEV project - the Biotechnology and Biomedicine Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and Charles University in Vestec was concluded on December 18, 2015. Full operation is beginning in January 2016. BIOCEV currently implements five research programmes and consists of six sets of research infrastructure and service laboratories. By 2020, as many as 450 researchers, including 200 post-graduate students, are supposed to work at the BIOCEV Centre. The Centre´s objective is to leam details about organisms at the molecular level that can be used in applied research and in the development of new therapeutic procedures. and Marina Hužvárová.