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.
Pavlína Rychterová of the ASCR's Institute of Philosophy has recently received the prestigious ERC Starting Grant for her project "Origins of the Vernacular Mode." The main focus of the project will be comparing mediaeval texts written in three languages, Latin, Czech and German. The expected benefit of the project is to evaluate knowledge concerning the origin and formation of national and language cultural identities in Central Europe. and Pavlína Rychterová.
Russian scientists and their foreign colleagues vigorously disapproved a new law that would radically transform the 300 year-old Russian Academy of Sciences. Two more specialized bodies — the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences — would be merged with the larger Academy. Its real estate holdings and property would be managed by a newly established agency. A protest by Russian scientists has delayed a third reading in the Russian Parliament until September. and Vladimír Majer.