The continuing development and improvement of the Academy’s Strategy AV21 innovative project was one of the item at the Academy Assembly’s XLVIII Meeting. One of its task was also the Evaluation of the Research and Professional Activities of the Institutes of the CAS. The research evaluation of the Institutes of the CAS for the 2010–2014 period was focused on individual assessment units within individual Institutes; each assessment unit was evaluated by one of 13 field panels. The Academy Assembly is the foremost priority decision-making body of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Its meeting took place at the Municipal House in Vinohrady on December 15, 2015.