CEFRES Platform and its new premises within the Czech Academy of Sciences were inaugurated on October 7-8, 2015. In 2015, theCAS built a brand newlibrary in order to hostCEFRES’smore than 6,000 volumes alongwith its teamand Prague’s Francophone readers. The new library was inaugurated during a ceremony in the presence of French Ambassador Jean-Pierre Asvazadourian, President of CAS Jiří Drahoš and Rector of Charles University Tomáš Zima. CEFRES (French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences) was founded in Prague in 1991 with the aim to restart scientific exchanges between France and Central Europe as the latter underwent major changes after the fall of communism. One of CEFRES’s tasks since then has been to build up a network of research teams between France, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. and Luděk Svoboda.
This meeting was organized jointly by the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the ASCR, the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and the Israeli Embassy in Prague on May 30-31, 2012. It represented a unique opportunity, especially for students and young scientists, to meet highly distinguished international scholars and discuss their ideas and projects directly with the most knowledgeable experts in the fields of biological chemistry. structural biology and material sciences. The invited speakers included four current Israeli Nobel Prize Laureates in Chemistry: Ada Yonath (Weizmann Instiute, Rehovot, Nobel Prize 2009), Aaron Ciechanover (Technion, Nobel Prize 2004), Avram Hershko (Rappaport Institute. Haifa, Nobel Prize 2004) and Dan Shechtman (Technion. Nobel Prize 2011) and other extraordinary scientific personalities from the USA, Israel, Germany and the Czech Republic, accompanied by several of their inspiring and talented students. and Luděk Svoboda.