The Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic was established in 1992 by the Czech National Council

Czech National Council

The Czech National Council was the legislative body of the Czech Republic from 1968 to 1992. It was created in 1968 to reflect the fact that Czechoslovakia became a federation. It was legally transformed into the Chamber of deputies according to the Constitution The Czech National Council was the...

 as the Czech successor of the former Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences

Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences

The Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences was established in 1953 to be the scientific center for Czechoslovakia. It was succeeded by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in 1992.-History:...

. The Academy is the leading non-university public research institution in the Czech Republic

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

. It conducts both fundamental and strategic applied research.

It has three scientific divisions, namely the Division of Mathematics

Mathematics

Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

, Physics

Physics

Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...

, and Earth Sciences

Earth science

Earth science is an all-embracing term for the sciences related to the planet Earth. It is arguably a special case in planetary science, the Earth being the only known life-bearing planet. There are both reductionist and holistic approaches to Earth sciences...

, Division of Chemical

Chemistry

Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....

 and Life Sciences, and Division of Humanities

Humanities

The humanities are academic disciplines that study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences....

 and Social Sciences

Social sciences

Social science is the field of study concerned with society. "Social science" is commonly used as an umbrella term to refer to a plurality of fields outside of the natural sciences usually exclusive of the administrative or managerial 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 and Ph.D.

Ph.D.

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 scientists.

The Head Office of the Academy and forty research institutes are located in Prague

Prague

Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...

, the remaining institutes being situated throughout the country.

See also

• Institute of Atmospheric Physics AS CR
  Institute of Atmospheric Physics AS CR
  The Institute of Atmospheric Physics AS CR, also designated as the IAP, is part of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic '. Within the IAP research institutions are combined in order to cover the whole field of science and humanities....
  
   established in 1964
• Czech Language Institute
  Czech Language Institute
  The Czech Language Institute, , abbr. ÚJČ, is the regulatory body of the Czech language.Note from Czech people: Czech language institute is not regulatory body of the Czech language. The one has no rights to control or regulate Czech language. This Institute caused several hard lapses in past...
  
   (Ústav pro jazyk český) founded in 1946
• CERGE-EI
  CERGE-EI
  CERGE-EI is an academic institution that provides an American-style PhD program in economics, a US-chartered Master of Arts program in Applied Economics , and the UPCES study abroad program. CERGE-EI also conducts research in theoretical and policy-related economics...
  
   (Center for Economic Resraech and Graduate Education – Economics Institute) founded 1991
• Institute of Information Theory and Automation (UTIA) founded in 1959
• Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals
  Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals
  Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i. is one of the six institutes belonging to the ASCR chemical sciences section and is a research centre in a variety of fields such as chemistry, biochemistry, catalysis and environment.Its research topics...
  
   founded in 1960
• Astronomical Institute of Czech Academy of Sciences
  Astronomical Institute of Czech Academy of Sciences
  The Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences was founded in 1954. Currently, it has its headquarters in Ondřejov observatory, roughly 35 km south-east from Prague and its director is Petr Heinzel....
  
  (Astronomický ústav)
• as well as many other institutes...

External links

• Official Web site (in English)