The Academy Assembly, the Academy of Science’s highest body responsible for the highest priority decisions related to the ASCR, held its XL meeting on April 19, 2012. Among invited guests were Petr Fiala, the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor; Miroslava Němcová, the Chairwoman of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic; Alena Gajdůšková, the 1st Vice-President of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic; Václav Pačes, the President of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic; Rudolf Zahradník, the Honorary President of the ASCR; Helena Illnerová, the former President of the ASCR, and others.
The main agenda item of this meeting was discussion the research methodology evaluation, which is criticized since the beginning. According to the Jiří Drahoš, the Chairman of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, the essential faults of the prevailing methodology were highlighted by the final report of the project International Audit of Research and Development in the Czech Republic, compiled and published by a consortium of renowned foreign institutions. Another item of the meeting was the brief presentation of the Strategy for the development of the ASCR 2014–2020, in which Jiří Drahoš introduced key visions and medium-term development goals of the ASCR – the leading non-university public research institution in the Czech Republic.
9 May 2012