The Millennium Technology Prizes are awarded by Technology Academy Finland every second year as a tribute to life-enhancing technological innovation. The winner of Millennium Technology Prize 2010 is Professor Michael Grätzel of Switzerland for his creation of third generation, low cost, dye-sensitized solar cells. He is director of the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. The winner received € 800.000 and a prestigious trophy named Peak, designed by sculptor Helena Hietanen. This year laureates were awarded during Millennium Technology Weeks at the Finnish Opera in Helsinki 9 June 2010. The two other laureates, Professor Richard Friend of the University of Cambridge for his initial innovation, organic Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs), a crucial milestone in plastic electronics, and Professor Stephen Furber of the University of Manchester, principal designer of the ARM 32 bit RISC micro-processor, were each awarded prizes of €150,000. and Marina Hužvárová.
The Second Argentine - Czech Biennale Workshop E-Golem took place in Buenos Aires on September 24-26, 2007. It was organized by the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Secretariat for Science, Technology and Productive Innovation of the Argentine Republic, with suppport from the Czech Embassy in Argentine and the Argentine Embassy in the Czech Republic. Its general subject was Society of information and Communication - Emerging technologies and their applications in society and the arts. The aim of this event was to discuss this issue in detail such topics as, artificial intelligence, image processing, web-technologies, nano-technologies for life sciences, eco-technologies and so forth. More information on this project can be found in an interview in this issue with the Ambassador of the Argentine Republic in the Czech Republic, Ambassador Juan Eduardo Fleming. and Marina Hužvárová.
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.