| Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic | |
|---|---|
| Akademie věd České republiky | |
| Established | 1784 Royal Czech Society of Sciences 1953 Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences 1992 Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic |
| Chairman | prof. Jiří Drahoš |
| Admin. staff | 7771 |
| Doctoral students | 4395 |
| Location | Prague, Czech Republic |
| Website | http://www.avcr.cz/index.html |
The Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (Czech: Akademie věd České republiky, abbr. AV ČR) was established in 1992 by the Czech National Council as the 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.