We provide professional information services and provide educational and research activities. We support research, teaching and study of European integration issues. We are engaged in monitoring, obtaining and processing European documents, regulations and legal standards.

We are engaged in scientific research of plasma physics and its applications. We are involved in research and development of controlled thermonuclear fusion, use of electric discharges, plasma generators, interaction of plasma with other states of matter and waste disposal in plasma streams.

Conduct research in animal physiology and genetics. We focus on the study of unique characteristics of domestic, wild and laboratory animals. We maintain a laboratory in developmental biology, biochemistry and molecular biology of germ cells, DNA integrity, animal embryology, tumor biology and more.

We run an institute focusing on the theory and history of Czech literature from the earliest period to the present. We provide basic research on Czech literature in linguistic and territorial delimitation. We focus on literary history, theory of literature, research on literary culture or literary lexicography.

The institute investigates methods, algorithms and structures of theoretical computer science and their applications in information technology.

We run an institute conducting research on problems of interaction between natural processes and human activity. We work on geochemistry, engineering geology, composite and carbon materials, seismotectonics, structures and material properties. We organise training courses, talks and professional congresses.

We operate a center engaged in scientific research and teaching activities in the field of experimental geotechnics. We carry out research projects in the field of underground engineering, ecology or physical modelling of geotechnical problems. We have an accredited and underground laboratory.

Processing of knowledge of techniques and technologies for the needs of restoration and art-historical evaluation, verification of sources and applied research of techniques and technologies for restoration work.

We provide professional services for the development and implementation of national water policy focusing on hydraulics, hydrology, hydrogeology. We are engaged in promoting water protection, flood prevention and waste and packaging management, research on the status, use and changes of aquatic ecosystems and their links in the landscape.

We provide research on the composition and evolution of inanimate nature. We have a laboratory of analytical methods, environmental geology and geochemistry, geological processes, paleobiology, paleoecology and paleomagnetism.

Conducting sociological analyses of contemporary society. Participation in the development of the interdisciplinary scientific field of gender studies, feminist theory and feminist sociological methodology and in the implementation of the concept of equal opportunities for men and women in the Czech Republic.

We carry out research in elementary particle physics, condensed matter systems, solids, optics and plasma. We carry out research work in the field of elementary particles in the framework of large international collaborations. We are involved in astroparticle physics. We work on the interaction of laser radiation with matter.

The main activity of the Oriental Institute of the CAS is scientific research in the field of Oriental studies. We focus mainly on the history of the peoples of Asia and Africa, as well as on their religious and philosophical systems, culture, languages and literature from antiquity to the present.

Scientific research in the field of Paleolinguistics and Byzantine Studies, lexicography of contemporary Slavic languages and history of Slavic Studies.