A meeting of the Visegrad Group of Academies was held in Třešť on September 23-24 and was hosted by Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. The Visegrad Group of Academies was initiated in March 2000 by the Slovak Academy of Sciences which organized the first meeting of the representatives of the V4 Academies in Bratislava. and Robert Zika.
Another article reports on scientific cooperation between the Academy of Sciences and Institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences, established in St. Petersburg in 1774. Under the Agreement with this institution, 59 specific programs of cooperation are being carried out — 40 in the field of natural sciences, 19 in the field humanities. and Robert Zika [et al.].