Czech Academy of Sciences threatened with 50% budget cut

[Neil Bermel]

Dear SEELANGS,

The Czech Academy of Sciences has been threatened with a three-year 
series of budget cuts that would lead to a halving of basic research 
funding. Among the institutes that would suffer are the Czech Language 
Institute, the Institute of Czech Literature and many others. The 
Academy has said that these cuts threaten the existence of the entire 
CAS. Please consult the following pages for information:

In English:

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/07/czech-science-a.html#more 

http://ohrozeni.avcr.cz/en/

In Czech:

http://ohrozeni.avcr.cz/

The AVCR site has a petition, and separate letters/e-mails can be sent 
to the prime minister, Jan Fischer:

Ing. Jan Fischer, CSc.
předseda vlády České republiky
Úřad vlády ČR
nábř. Edvarda Beneše 128/4
118 00 Praha 1 - Malá Strana
Czech Republic
posta at vlada.cz

I've had contact from both the Ústav české literatury and the Ústav pro 
jazyk český, and both would be grateful for support for their efforts to 
get the government to revisit this decision.

Best regards,

-- 
Neil Bermel
Department of Russian & Slavonic Studies
University of Sheffield
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
Sheffield S3 7RA, U.K.
Tel. +44 (0)114 222 7405
Fax +44 (0)114 222 2888

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