Recently in Kolkata, the Embassy of the Czech Republic promoted capacities and funding opportunities to support Indo-European research and innovation. Could you please throw more light on this activity that was undertaken?

Our Embassy always puts a great deal of importance to the scientific diplomacy and cooperation between scientists and institutes here in India and in the Czech Republic. That’s why we took part in the Regional tour to Kolkata organized by the Delegation of the EU to India. During this event, many topics were discussed mainly in the field of exchange of scientific capacities and cooperation of universities, such as Jadavpur University. It was a great opportunity to follow up on the signing of the Agreement of Understanding between the Academy of Sciences The Czech Republic and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research of India. The latter organisation was represented at the event by the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, which is the leading institute of such kind in India and represents an interesting partner for the Czech Republic. Czech science has a lot to offer to India and vice versa. We have to do our best to help each other, our future depends on it.