On 15-16 January 2007, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has hosted in the Internationales Kongresszentrum Bonn a national kick-off event of the 7th framework programme. On the first day of the conference high-ranking international speakers incl. German Minister for Education & Research, Mrs. Annette Schavan, and EU Commissioner for R&D, Mr. Janez Potocnik, have presented an overview of all the elements of the new research framework programme. The second day has given the participants the opportunity to take a more detailed look at a variety of topics of the framework programme via individual workshop. and Marie Kolmanová.
The Institute of Contemporary History of the ASCR together with the National Museum and the Czechoslovak Documentation Centre organized an international conference entitled The Past is the Battleground of our Contemporaries to mark the eightieth birthday of the founder and first director of the Institute of Contemporary History, Professor Vilem Pretan. The conference took place at Czernin Palace on January 24-25, 2013. The proceedings was divided into five blocks reflecting Preoan's life-long professional interests: the Second World War; Slovakia; Czecho-Slovak relations; political exile: opposition and dissent; the building of the discipline of contemporary history in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. and Jiří Hoppe.