This issue presents complete preliminaries on voting for a new president of Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. The new president will assume his office on March 25, 2013 and serve for four years. As head of the ASCR, he is its chief representative and also administrator of the Academy's budget. After his selection, he will be nominated to the post by the president of the Czech Republic. The candidate will be selected at the XLI Meeting of Academic Assembly. The list of proposed nominees for the members of Academic Board and Scientific Board of ASCR will be published in the second issue of Academic bulletin 2013.
We highlight an interwiew with Svatopluk Halada from the Eureka secretariat. Eureka was founded to challenge the increasing migration to Asian and North American countries of R&D and industrial innovation. Eureka now unites 38 member countries. Working together, they promote international, market-oriented research and innovation thorugh the support they offer to small and medium-sized enterprises, large industry, universities and research institutes. Through Eureka, these organizations introduce new products, processes and services to the market, helping make Europe economically strong and socially sound. and Martin Kašpárek.
This new project of the Institute of Physics of the CAS is a Widening Excellence, Twinning project aimed at boosting the scientific excellence and technology-transfer capacity in advanced scintillating materials of the Institute of Physics from the Czech Academy of Sciences by creating a network with four other partners: CERN, Institute Lumière Matière - Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Università degli Studi di Milano - Biocca and Intelligentsia Consultants. and Jana Olivová.
The Institute of Geonics of the ASCR organized the International Workshop on Development of Coupled Models and their Validation against Experiments as a part of the project designated as Decovalex 2011, which occured in Prague October 21-23, 2009. This international research project was established as Decovalex for theoretical and experimental studies of coupled thermal, hydrological and mechanical processes in hard rocks. and Radim Blaheta.