The oldest and largest Czech scientific society in the field of chemistry, the Czech Chemical Society (ČSCH), is a constituent member of the European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences (EuCheMS) and has a wide range of activities. The society´s web pages http://www.csch.cz and its journal pages http://chemicke-listy.vscht.cz/ offer more information. and Bohumil Kratochvíl.
This scientific society has become in the last 104 years one of the largest and most active society in the Czech Republic. It now consists of 830 members who work in five regional branches and in eight scientific divisions. and Svatopluk Bílý.
The finalists of Competition of Scientific and Technical Projects (EXPO AMAVET) at Czech secondary schools proved again that young people are full of enthusiasm and bright ideas. Their projects demonstrated the students’ deep knowledge and interest in research work. and Gabriela Adámková.
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.
V nakladatelství Oxford university Press vyšlo letos - snad vůbec poprvé - dílo českých badatelů v historických vědách, a to konkrétně v oblasti orální historie. Nabídku od nakladatelství ke knižnímu zpracování náhledu na naši současnost po roce 1968 dostal Miroslav Vaněk v roce 2011 na konferenci v Denveru a jak, říká, kdyby tušil, co ho čeká, nekývl by. Naštěstí přizval kolegu Pavla Mückeho, aby spolu podnikli martyrium přípravy anglickojazyčné publikace pro zámořského nakladatele. Když anglicky psaná kniha Velvet Revolutions: An Oral History of Czech Society vyšla, dostala se ke čtenářům nejprve v elektronické verzi na Novém Zélandu., The Velvet Revolution in November 1989 brought about the collapse of the authoritarian communist regime in what was then Czechoslovakia. It also marks the beginning of the country's journey towards democracy. This book examines what the values in so-called real socialism were, as well as how citizens’ values changed after the 1989 collapse. In Velvet Revolutions (published in Oxford Oral History Series, Oxford University Press, 2016), Miroslav Vanek and Pavel Mücke of the Institute for Contemporary History of the CAS analyse and interpret 300 interviews on citizens’ experience of freedom and its absence, the value of work, family and friends, education, relations to public sphere and politics, the experience of free time, and the perception of foreigners and foreign countries. The interviewees are drawn from a wide range of professions, including manual workers, service workers, farmers, members of the armed forces, managers, and marketing personnel. All of the interviewees were at working age during the last twenty years of the communist regime and during the post-revolutionary transformation. From this rich foundation, the book builds a multi-layered view of the Czech history before 1989 and during the subsequent period of democratic transformation., and Marina Hužvárová.