Projects

BlueAdapt - Reducing climate based health risks in blue environments: Adapting to the climate change impacts on coastal pathogens

GEOCEP, a new interdisciplinary MSCA RISE project, led by Charles University, is funded by the European Commission. The project will connect the frontiers of climate change and energy economics with state-of-the-art natural and social sciences.

Centre of environmental research: Waste management, circular economy and environmetal secutiry

The aim of the project is to build a long-term, professional, interdisciplinary, research base made up of key research organizations with experience and expertise to carry out research in the field of waste and circular management in a broader context. The Center will provide the Ministry of the Environment, other ministries, expert platforms and other entities with research results, dissemination of scientific knowledge and expert support in policy making, strategies and regulations.

Envigogika – peer reviewed scientific on-line journal

Envigogika is a specialist peer-reviewed professional open access periodical published by the Charles University (Prague). The journal publishes original academic papers and additional informative articles from the field of environmental education (EE), education for sustainable development (ESD) and also from other related areas. Journal is registered in the ERIH PLUS database, DOAJ database and has DOAJ Seal of quality.

Enviwiki – on-line knowledge base for interdisciplinary education of problems of environment and sustainable development

Enviwiki is a on-line platform - knowledge base - devoted to education oriented on problems of environment and sustainable development. Enviwiki should serve to support interdisciplinary education of environmental problems in Czech universities: it offers space for creating, publishing and sharing of specialized text and offers also methodological support. Published articles can be used both by teacher and students also in primary and secondary schools.

ESD:SuperVision - qualification and further training for consultants for the implementation of ESD in school curricula

The aim of ESD:SuperVision is on the one hand to create the conditions for the development of high quality and cross-curricular school materials for secondary education on the topic of Sustainable Development (SD) and to make them available under a creative commons license.

Updating, application, and further development of models to estimate raw material equivalents (RME models)

The project quantifies the EU's material footprint, which is then published on Eurostat's official website. We developed the method we use more than ten years ago and are still refining it and updating the results.

Frontiers in Energy Efficiency Economics and Modelling

This research aims at pushing the frontiers of research on energy economics and modelling. We examine the causes of the energy efficiency gap, focusing on adoption and substitution of energy durables by households, and investigate to what extent consumers are willing to provide some flexibility to the energy system through demand response. 

Global Excellence in Modeling Climate and Energy Policies (GEOCEP)

GEOCEP, a new interdisciplinary MSCA RISE project, led by Charles University, is funded by the European Commission. The project will connect the frontiers of climate change and energy economics with state-of-the-art natural and social sciences.

Inventory of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Czech Republic

The Center is involved in the national inventorying system, co-ordinated by the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute. It is responsible for annual inventorying of greenhouse gas emissions from the waste sector applying the IPCC methodology.

Tap Water or Bottled Water: Barriers and Motivations to Consume Drinking Water

The project aim is to identify motives and barriers to tap water consumption in the Czech Republic and ways to overcome the barriers.

Laboratory for the design and testing of methodological approaches for developing teachers‘ competences in education for a sustainable future

The project will explore the possibilities of applying competences for sustainable development in the Czech education system - it will provide evidence for considering them as educational objectives, offer possibilities for their assessment as expected outcomes. It will test and reflect innovative educational strategies and methods that contribute to their development.

LIFE-IP: N2K Revisited - Integrated LIFE project for the Natura 2000 network in the Czech Republic

The main objective of the LIFE-IP: N2K Revisited project is to establish a more effective management system for Natura 2000 network sites in the Czech Republic. The aim is to link appropriate management more effectively with corresponding planning, based on accurate assessments of status and trends of the target features, accompanied by cooperation with land users. The project will effectively utilise knowledge of the benefits provided by natural capital to society and take into account relevant costs. The project will also support regional authorities, municipalities and land users to help them mobilise their own resources, including recommendations for the EU 2027+ programming period.

Cooperation of municipalities to improve the quality of public administration using the MA21 method

The aim is to strengthen the institutional capacity of municipalities and regions in the field of STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT AND COMMUNICATION based on the MA21 quality management method. Methodological procedures and tools for USCs will be systematically developed (basis for comprehensive strategic management, professional communication with citizens, project evaluation tool, integration of quality management systems, expert evaluation of MA21 procedures and outputs, sharing of good practices). All findings and outputs will be prepared and used for training of municipalities and regions.

Model support for clean and sustainable mobility in the Czech Republic

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Prediction of emission savings in road transport achieved by application of the selected tax and fee instruments by 2030

The main goal is to design and evaluate fiscal instruments to reduce NOx emissions from transport by 5 kt by 2030 compared to the NPSE-WM scenario. 

Pathways towards Environmental Sustainability

Project aim is to determine the potential scenarios of future development in technology and consumption, which will ensure national footprints of all countries to be within the downscaled planetary boundaries.

Regional centre of expertise Czechia

RCE Czechia is currently a community of 22 partners - Czech universities, schools, non-governmental organizations, representatives of local government and small-scale entrepreneurs - who aim to build a culture of sustainability and involve citizens in democratic processes.

Rolling Waste: Environmental and behavioral research of music festivals participants' behavior

Main goal of the project is to reduce environmental footprint of open-air music festivals through change in behaviour and consumer patterns of participants.

Center for Socio-Economic Research on Environmental Policy Impact Assessment (SEEPIA)

The project Center for Socio-Economic Research on Environmental Policy Impact Assessment (SEEPIA) aims to establish an interdisciplinary research center, providing long-term expert capacity for socioeconomic environmental research.

Using the theory of costly signalling to increase social status of frugal consumers and strengthen their pro-environmental consumption patterns

The purpose of this project is to study the effects of various types of signals sent by frugal consumption on social status and social interactions. More specifically, by combining the insights from the costly signaling theory and recent findings on perception of altruism and prosociality of people who engage in pro-environmental behavior, we will explore -- through a series of experimental studies--how signaling of voluntarily frugal consumerism can be enriched by pro-social signals to improve social status of consumers and their social interactions.

VCSEwiki – on-line colaboration tool for interdisciplinary education of problems of environment and sustainable development

VCSEwiki is a on-line platform - colaboration tool for education of  problems of environment and sustainable development in English. Enviwiki should serve to support interdisciplinary education of environmental problems in English  it offers space for creating, publishing and sharing of specialized text and offers also methodological support.