Featured in this issue is the interwiew with Professor Petr Ráb, a member of Academy Council, and of the Steering Committee of the Evaluation of Academic Institutes. Through this evaluation, the Academy Council is provided a full report of the research effectiveness of Academy Institutes. The process of research assessment is supervised by foreign evaluators. and Marina Hužvárová.
The Council for the popularization of science of ASCR in cooperation the Philosophical institute of ASCR, organized a press conference and a lecture with Prof. Paul Konrad Liessmann, a well-known Austrian philosopher, awarded by the Austrian State Prize for Cultural Journalism in 1996 and Scientist Prize 2006 (2007). Konrad Paul Liessmann was born 1953 in Villach. He is professor at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Vienna and the editor of Zsolnay’s PHILOSOPHICUM LECH series. and Luděk Svoboda.