Week of Science and Technology

Week of Science and Technology is the most extensive scientific festival in the Czech Republic, organized by Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (ASCR). It takes place each year at the beginning of November and it is going to be already the 11th annual event in 2011. Students and teachers at secondary schools as well as the wider public have the opportunity to look into many research workplaces, laboratories and libraries and learn 'how science is done'.

The scientists from the research workplaces of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic prepare a wide offer of lectures, presentations, panel discussions, seminars, excursions, exhibitions and discussion evenings, in which they present their research projects, the most modern scientific apparatuses and outline for the attendees the latest trends in the areas of science in the Czech Republic and the world.

Each year of the festival has its main theme. Last year had the theme of the Diversity of the World and Life in It. Themes in the past have included What is Our World Like (2009), International Year of Planet Earth (2008), The Fascination with Light (2007), Biotechnology (2006) and World Year of Physics (2005).