The article deals with some key arguments in Pavel Machonin's book Czech Society and Sociological Knowledge, but does not review the whole book. Critical comments focus on four themes. Machonin's conception of sociology as a discipline and a tradition does not do full justice to the inherent pluralism of the sociological imagination. It is useful to link sociological debates to the ideological contest between socialism (more particularly Marxism) and liberalism, but this problematic is more complex than Machonin's analyses tend to suggest; that applies, in particular, to the interpretations of freedom and equality as fundamental modern values. Machonin's attempt to reconstruct modernization theory is open to some criticisms, especially with regard to the debate on „multiple modernities." Finally, the concept of state socialism does not help to grasp the complex patterns of modernity that developed under Communist rule.
In July 2015, the 46th International Physics Olympiad was held in Mumbai, the capital city of the Indian state, Maharashtra. Members of the Czech team obtained three silver medals and two bronze medals. In addition, the Slovak team won one silver and three bronze medals. In this article a theoretical task set during the competition is presented, which deals with calculations of a nuclear fission reactor. and Filip Studnička, Jan Kříž, Ľubomír Konrád, Bohumil Vybíral.
CZELO (Czech Liaison Office for Development and Research), the Technology Center AS CR and the Czech Biotechnology Association Biotrin organized a one-day seminar entitled Czech Republic - Your Partner in Agrobiotechnology Research in Brussels on November 22. This seminar brought an overview of selected biotechnology activities and food biotechnology sector in the Czech Republic. and [Táňa Perglová].
The project Czech Mobility Centre was established to expand a flourishing European Research Area (ERA), designed to be one of the pillars helping Europe to become one of the most competitive economies in the world by 2010. The Czech Services Centre (CSC) was established during the years 2005-2007 and it is a part of the European Services Network (EURAXESS) consisting of more than 200 Services Centres in 35 countries in Europe CSC offers, for example, information about jobs and funding opportunities in the Czech Republic, advice on "reintegration"' of researchers in their home country, help with entry conditions, family support, practical and legal assistance, etc. and Viktória Bodnárová, Markéta Doležalová.