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Akademie věd České republiky | |
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| Established | 1784; 241 years ago (1784)Royal Czech Society of Sciences 1953; 72 years ago (1953)Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences 1992; 33 years ago (1992) Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic |
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| President | Prof.Eva Zažímalová |
Administrative staff | 7771 |
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| Location | , 50°4′54″N14°24′51″E / 50.08167°N 14.41417°E /50.08167; 14.41417 |
| Website | www |
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TheCzech Academy of Sciences (abbr.CAS,Czech:Akademie věd České republiky, abbr.AV ČR) was established in 1992 by theCzech National Council as the Czech successor of the formerCzechoslovak Academy of Sciences and its tradition goes back to theRoyal Bohemian Society of Sciences (founded in 1784) and theEmperor Franz Joseph Czech Academy for Sciences, Literature and Arts (founded in 1890). The academy is the leading non-university public research institution in theCzech Republic. It conducts both fundamental and strategic applied research.
It has three scientific divisions, namely the Division ofMathematics,Physics, andEarth Sciences, Division ofChemical andLife Sciences, and Division ofHumanities andSocial Sciences. The academy currently manages a network of sixty research institutes and five supporting units staffed by a total of 6,400 employees, over one half of whom are university-trained researchers andPh.D. scientists.
The Head Office of the academy and forty research institutes are located inPrague, the remaining institutes being situated throughout the country.
The establishment of the academy in 1992 follows several previous organizations:
In 2010 the academy adopted anopen access policy to make its research outputs free to read and reuse.[1]
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The official structure of the CAS consists of three areas (sciences about inanimate nature, life sciences, and humanities),each with three sections. Each of these 9 sections contains between 4 and 8 institutes. An institute is divided further into departments, laboratories, or working teams, depending on the size and the topic of the institute.
