The Institute of Geonics of the ASCR organized the International Workshop on Development of Coupled Models and their Validation against Experiments as a part of the project designated as Decovalex 2011, which occured in Prague October 21-23, 2009. This international research project was established as Decovalex for theoretical and experimental studies of coupled thermal, hydrological and mechanical processes in hard rocks. and Radim Blaheta.
We introduce the comments of four other directors of Academy institutes, who were asked these three questions: In which direction will they lead the development of their institutes? What are they doing to achieve excellence in science? How will they evaluate the work in accordance with the new statutes called Public Research Institution?