Ceremonial inauguration of Tokamak Compass-D that Czech Republic obtained as gift from Great Britain took place in April 1 2008 by participation e.g. chairman of AS CR Václav Pačes, ambasador of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Linda Joy Duffield, director of Association EUROATOM-IPP.CR Hardo Bruns and director of UKAEA Fusion Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith. A Tokamak Compass-D is a machine producing a toroidal magnetic field for confining a plasma. It is one of several types of magnetic confinement devices and the most researched candidate for producing fusion energy. and Marina Hužvárová.
The Czech National Committee for Astronomy under the auspices of head manager ESO Catherine Cesarsky and AS CR President Václav Pačes organized on 8th of June 2007 the Astronomical Day of the European Southern Observatory (in Chile) for Czech industry. and Marina Hužvárová.
The seventh annual Week of Science and Technology, organized by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, took place in five cities - Brno, České Budějovice, Olomouc, Ostrava and Prague. The program included speeches by top professionals, presentations of significant experiments, workshops, non-traditional exhibitions, science cafés, and visits to laboratories and academic workplaces. The Week of Science and Technology also featured the European itinerant exhibition focusing on optics and optical technologies, titled The Fascination of Light. The exhibition took place November 1 to 8 in Veletržní palác. and Marina Hužvárová, Luděk Svoboda.