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Annual Report on the Activity of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic ANNUAL REPORT ON THE ACTIVITY OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC 2010 ANNUAL REPORT 2010 01 02 Introduction Scientifi c Activity 03 04 Educational Practical Activity Activity THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC 05 06 International Scientifi c Special-Purpose Support Cooperation of Research and Development Projects 07 08 Popularisation Summary of the Use and Promotional of Financial Means Activity ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ASCR 2010 TABLE OF CONTENTS 01. Introduction 08 02. Scientifi c Activity 14 01. The Section of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics 16 02. The Section of Applied Physics 20 03. The Section of Earth and Space Sciences 24 04. The Section of Chemical Sciences 28 05. The Section of Biological and Medical Sciences 33 06. The Section of Biological-Ecological Sciences 36 07. The Section of Social-Economic Sciences 40 08. The Section of Historical Sciences 43 09. The Section of the Humanities and Philological Sciences 46 03. Educational Activity 50 04. Practical Activity 60 05. International Scientifi c Cooperation 66 06. Special-Purpose Support of Research and Development Projects 76 07. Popularisation and Promotional Activity 80 08. Summary of the Use of Financial Means 86 09. Appendices 01. List of Research Plans Resolved at Institutes of the ASCR as of 31 December 2010 97 02.1 Total Publication Results at the ASCR 100 02.2 Publications Results by Area of Science 100 03. Overview of the International Projects Resolved by the Institutes of the ASCR 101 04. Overview of the International Conferences Organised by Institutes of the ASCR 108 05. Overview of the Cooperation of the ASCR with Higher Education Institutions 112 06.1 Number of Employees, Salary Means and Earnings in 2010 114 06.2 Number of Institutes and Employees of the ASCR by Section 116 07.1 The Economic Management of Public Research Institutions of the ASCR in 2010 117 07.2 Investment Resources and Their Use in 2010 120 08. Signifi cant Awards for Researchers 123 09. Editorial Work at the ASCR 129 10. The Annual Report of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic for 2010 139 11. The Activities of the Council of Scientific Societies of the Czech Republic 141 12. The Annual Report of the ASCR on the Provision of Information according to Act No. 106/1999 Coll. 143 13. The Structure of the ASCR in 2010 144 14. The Regional Distribution of the Institutes of the ASCR 146 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ASCR 2010 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ASCR 2010 the current evaluation methodology introduced by the former Research and Development Council (a so-called coffee mill that put everything in one pile regardless of the quality). One of the main objectives of the evaluation taking place at the Academy of Sciences is an effort for an objective mapping of the scientifi c quality of our institutes, namely all the way to the level of individual units. The assessment process will be capped by specifi c conceptual steps within which carefully planned measures of a fi nancial and organisational character will result, so that we will be able to even more quickly and effi ciently utilise research results in practice both on the national and international scale. In the modern period, it is ever more evident that science, research and education are among the fundamental factors of the economic prosperity of society, which also signifi cantly participate in the formation of its cultural and spiritual values. The leadership of the Academy of Sciences will therefore take thorough care to ensure that the balanced relation Dear Readers, between the necessity to maintain a suffi ciently wide base of scientifi c fi elds and the need to reinforce the You have before you the Annual Report of the Academy priority directions of research will be preserved also of Sciences of the Czech Republic, in which you will in the future. I am convinced that precisely the system fi nd specifi c information on our main activities in 2010. of the institutes of the Academy of Sciences, which We are very pleased especially by the fact that despite is the most complex research institution in the Czech the dramatic events of 2009 the Academy of Sciences Republic, has the historic and contemporary most is still perceived by the wider public and the political appropriate prerequisites for it and also bears high representation as an institution that has a justifi ed responsibility for it. position in the system of science and education of the contemporary Czech society. Jiří Drahoš President of the Academy of Sciences The Year 2010 was exception for the Academy of Sciences in that all of its institutes underwent a demanding evaluative process, which should contribute to the further improvement of their research activities. I have to emphasise that the Academy of Sciences is the only institution in the Czech Republic that systematically conducts such an assessment, namely with signifi cant participation of foreign reviewers. The evaluation of the activities of the institutes of the Academy of Sciences has from the very beginning followed several objectives at the same time, by which it fundamentally differs from the simple mechanism of 7 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ASCR 2010 01 Introduction 8 INTRODUCTION As compared to previous years, the scientifi c-research, tivities but all of our science and research and gradual cre- educational and cultural activity of the Academy of Sci- ation of the conditions which would allow the Czech Re- ences of the Czech Republic (hereinafter referred to as public to assume a place among the advanced countries the ‘ASCR’) took place in 2010 in impaired external, par- of Europe and the entire world in the area. In these en- ticularly economic, conditions. Predominantly, an interna- deavours, the ASCR continues to rely on the support of the tional economic crisis was taking effect, whose result was preeminent personalities of our scientifi c, public and polit- a substantial slowing of the growth of the public support ical life, of the Czech and foreign scientifi c and higher edu- for research, development and innovation. Nevertheless, cation institutions and of the wider public. Another round the ill-conceived reform of research, development and in- of evaluations of their scientifi c activity for 2005–2009 had novation from 2008–2009 and primarily the introduction special signifi cance in the life of the institutes in 2010. of a completely mistaken methodology of the evaluation The ASCR is the only research institution in the CR, which of the results achieved in this area, which threatened not has regularly conducted such evaluations since its foun- only the institiutes of the ASCR but the quality and posi- dation. This evaluation was already the sixth since 1990 tion of Czech science and education as a whole, had an and of those the fourth that took place with the broad par- even greater negative impact on the activity of the ASCR. ticipation of foreign reviewers and according to the rules, As a consequence of these steps, the budget of the ASCR customs and methodology applied in the scientifi cally ad- for 2010 as the only institution in the area of science, re- vanced countries as dictated by the current legal regula- search and development was reduced by more than half of tion. Unlike previous rounds, it has focused on assessing a bilion (CZK), while the original proposal of the Research a total of fi ve areas of criteria, namely all the way to the and Development Council was even much more drastic level of the scientifi c units of the institute, of which there and over the following years could have led to the com- are a total of 406. For the bibliometric part of the evalu- plete liquidation of the ASCR. Although this Council, which ation, an analytical system was created by the Library, bore the main responsibility for this irregularity, was re- which allowed a detailed mapping of the results of the in- called in the middle of 2010, its composition was modifi ed stitutes on the level of the scientifi c units and the indivi- and even the fi rst results of an international audit clearly dual types of results. showed the faultiness and harmfulness of the existing ap- proach, the situation was not essentially corrected and the The overall process of the current evaluation is spread into budget of the ASCR also for 2011 was again reduced, al- three connected stages. The fi rst phase – the actual eval- beit to a lesser extent. uation by the commissions and discussion of their fi nal protocols – which took place predominantly in 2010, will This approach to ensuring the activities of the ASCR is in be formally closed at the spring session of the Academ- sharp discrepancy with the reality that the ASCR is through ic Assembly in 2011. The second phase – the interpreta- its results clearly the most effi cient component of research tion of the results of the evaluation of the relevant gremia and development in the Czech Republic: it associated only and bodies of the ASCR in cooperation with the manage- 15 % of the employees in research and development and ment of the institutes – will commence immediately after at the same time produces 37 % of its internationally rec- the completion of the summative phase. The third phase ognised results. Further to that, it is also necessary to state – the projection of this interpretation into the proposal of that the institutional fi nancing of the ASCR from the state the conceptual measures of an organisational and fi nan- budget covers only 55 % of its total costs, whereas 45 % cial character – will be the subject of the proceedings of the of the other means were acquired by the institutes of the Academic Assembly in the autumn of 2011.
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