This article features the Academy's cooperation with three renowned scientific institutions in Great Britain - the Royal Society, the British Academy and the ROyal Society of Edinburgh. The first of them is a society of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in the world in continuous existence. The Society aims to expad the development and use of science, mathematics, engineering and medicine for the benefit of humanity and the good of the planet. The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national body for humanities and social sciences. The Royal Society of Edinburgh is an educational charity. Independent, impartial and non-partisan, it works to provide public benefit throughout Scotland and by means of a growing international programme. The RSE has a peer-elected, multidisciplinary society of 1,500 men and women who are experts in their fields. and Andrzej Magala.
The Academy's cooperation with four Scandinavian countries, Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark is described in another article. It specifically focuses on cooperation with four scientific institutions: Academy of Finland, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and The Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. and Andrzej Magala.
The 9th annual Science and Technology Week was organized for the public by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic on November 2-8, 2009 and it took place in Brno, České Budějovice, Hradec Králové, Ostrava, Plzeň and Praha. The program included speeches by scientific professionals, presentations of noteworthy experiments, workshops, non-traditional exhibitions, science cafés, and visits to laboratories and academic workplaces. Science and Technology Week is one of the largest science communication efforts which presents the latest scientific achievements and results of current research. and Luděk Svoboda.
In this issue, we feature two articles on the 120th anniversary of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the Arts. The first, written by Luboš Velek, director of the Masaryk Institute and Archives, describes several predecessors of the ASCR. In his article, Antonín Kostlán of the Institute of the Contemporary History focuses on the origin and development of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (1952-1992), which comprised research institutes, a learned society and a body of academicians and corresponding members. and Antonín Kostlán.