Regional Environmental Center Czech Republic
Senovazna 2
110 00 Prague 1 - Czech Republic
Prague
Czechia
- Environment/Sustainable development
Country Office Expertise:
• Hydrogeology and Civil engineering
• Water management
• Environmental protection
• Flood Risk Management
• Environmental education in nature protection
• Management of public participation programs, seminars and workshops.
WAREMA: (Water resources management capacity building on integrated water management in Bosnia and Herzegovina). The activities of the project should initiate water resources management and capacity building on integrated water management in Bosnia and Herzegovina; the important part of this project is also know-how transfer between the Czech Republic and Bosnia and Herzegovina
INTENSE: (From Estonia till Croatia: Intelligent Energy Saving Measures for Municipal housing in Central and Eastern European Countries); Intelligent Energy – Europe (IEE) Programme. The project INTENSE aims at transferring intelligent energy saving measures for municipal housing from “old” EU Member States to “new” Member States, Accession and Candidate countries in Central and Eastern Europe and it is built on a holistic approach for planning of energy optimized housing.
FLOODPROBE: PROJECT FP7: Technologies for the cost-effective Flood Protection of the Built Environment. The objectives derived from the problem description and the principal aim are:
• To improve methods for assessing the vulnerability of the urban environment related to floods, especially by extending conventional methods with the ability to assess indirect impacts of damage to networks and assets with a high value density.
• To improve the understanding of urban flood defence performance, in order to develop suitable protection measures and to increase the cost-effectiveness of future investments.
• To develop and test construction technologies and concepts to improve the performance of existing and new flood defences and for flood-proofing of the urban environment.
PANI (Solution of problems of groundwater quality and quantity in the region of Kathmandu (Nepal) on the basis of experience of Czech hydrogeologists in providing drinking water for Prague). Twinning project of the capitals of Prague and Kathmandu; within the frame of establishing expert activities, promotion and transfer of knowledge & technology in the sphere of research of groundwater and its permanent utilization.
EASY-ECO: a training and conference programme on evaluations in the specific context of sustainable development. Between 2005 and 2010, the EASY-ECO Series comprises seven conferences and ten training opportunities related to Sustainable development.