The Academy Assembly, the Academy of Science´s highest body responsible for the highest priority decisions related to the ASCR, held its XXXIX meeting on December 16, 2011. Among invited guests were Petr Fiala, the Prime Minister´s Chief Science Advisor; Karel Pospíšil, Head of Board of Public Applied Research Institutions; Václav Pačes, President of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic; Rudolf Zahradník, Honorary President of the ASCR; Helena Illnerová, former President of the ASCR; Václav Hampl, Rector of Charles University of Prague; Přemysl Sobotka, First Vice-President of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, and Vladimír Haasz, Vice-Chairperson of the R&D Council of the Czech Republic, and others. The main agenda item of this meeting was discussion the results of the Evaluation of Academy Instituties. and Luděk Svoboda.
The Marie Curie Actions opened its call for the individual fellowships (International Outgoing Fellowships; International Incoming Fellowships and Intra-European Fellowships). Those fellowships are open to experienced researchers (with a Ph.D. degree or four years of research experience) who desire to pursue their research projects in another country (be it within or outside Europe). Researchers from any field of research, nationality or gender are invited to submit their application by August 16, 2012. and Anna Mittnerová.
The aim of this international conference was to delimit and define the space for women to assert themselves in public affairs and politics during the last three decades of the existence of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, under the First Czechoslovak Republic and Austrian Republic. It was organized by the Chamber of Deputies of Parliament of the Czech Republic, the Centre of Central European Studies (the joint department of the Masaryk Institute and Archive of the ASCR and CEVRO Institute College) and the Anna and Jaroslav Krejci Research Endowment Fund. It was held under the auspices of Miroslava Nerncova, the chairwoman of the Chamber of Deputies of Parliament of the Czech Republic. and Marie Behanská a Jana Malínská.