Nedávno zesnulý významný český právní historik Jiří Kejř charakterizoval Vaněčkovo odborné dílo imponující rozsahem i hloubkou v roce 1985 slovy: „Od velikých monografií, kterým patří už právem označení klasické, a obsáhlých učebnic přes zevrubně fundované studie a články až k recenzím, drobným zprávám a veřejným projevům sahá jeho dílo o několika stech bibliografických položkách a ukazuje, jakou pílí a erudicí se vyznačoval jeho autor. Ne však množství publikací svědčí o místě učence ve vývoji vědy. […]“ and Hana Kábová.
Sahitya Akademi in New Delhi hosted in January a Session of the Union Académique Internationale (International Union of Academies). The federation is composed of national and international academies from more than 60 countries working in the field of Humanities and the Social Sciences. Its purpose is to encourage cooperation to advance studies through collaborative research and joint publications in those branches of humanities and social sciences promoted by the Academies and Institutions represented in the UAI which include philology, archeology, history, moral sciences and political sciences. Since 1919, the number of projects sponsored, supported or supervised by the UAI has steadily increased. From the first three projects (Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Alchemical texts and Works of Grotius), the IUA came to the number of 76 projects. and Jiří Beneš.
On the 14th May, on its annual general meeting the Learned Society of the Cezch Republic honored mathematician Prof. Miroslav Engliš and two young Czech scientists, N. Špačková and J. Čížek. The ceremony took part in Karolinum, a historical building of Charles University in Prague. and -red-.
The Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the ASCR organised the 4th IAGA/ICMA/CAWSES-II TG4 Workshop on Vertical Coupling in the Atmosphere-Ionosphere System, which was held from 14-18, 2011 in Prague. The Earth's atmospheric regions are intricately coupled to one another via various dynamical, chemical, and electrodynamic processes. However, the manner in which the couplings take place due to varying energy inputs from the Sun and from the lower atmosphere is a question that is yet to be understood. and Petra Koucká Knížová.
An international conference, Victory over fascism in 1945: its significance for peoples of the CIS and the world, took place in Moscow on April 8, 2010. The motto was: We won together. It was organized by the Intergovernmental Foundation for Educational, Scientific and Cultural Cooperation. This was part of the action plan and preparations for the celebration of the 65th anniversary of the Victory in the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War. Assisting were the Russian Education and Science Ministry and the Russian Academy of Sciences. and Jan Němeček.
On January 1, 2013, Ireland began its six-month presidency of the Council of the European Union. Irish Presidency for the seventh time coincides with the 40t" anniversary of its membership of the European Union. Some issues on the Irish Presidency's agenda include the following: Finalizing agreement on the Multiannual Financial Framework that will determine the EU budget from 2014-2020. Also, policy issues of direct national importance to Ireland including reform Horizon 2020, the EU's future framework programme for research and innovation. and Anna Vosečková.
The annual Villa Lanna Meetings of Science, or Else? are organized by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and the Collegium Helveticum, an Institute supported by both the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH) and the University of Zurich. They bring together scientists from different fields of research to discuss general aspects of science, the position of science in society and its consequences to humanity. This year, now the 10th meeting was held in Prague from 11-13 January, its topic was Reproducibility - Arts, Science and Living Nature. More information can be found in an interview with Professor Pliška and in an article about Professor Havel. and Ivan M. Havel.