The
Academy of Sciences of
the Czech Republic ( , abbr.
AV
ČR) was established in 1992 by the
Czech National Council as a Czech
successor of the former
Czechoslovak Academy of
Sciences.
The Academy is the leading non-university
public research institution in the Czech Republic
. It conducts both fundamental and strategic
applied research.
It has three scientific divisions, namely the Division of
Mathematics,
Physics, and
Earth Sciences, Division of
Chemical and
Life
Sciences, and Division of
Humanities
and
Social 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. scientists.
The Head
Office of the Academy and forty research institutes are located in
Prague
, the remaining institutes being situated throughout
the country.
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