Support of the railway transport enhancement of the Prague – Dresden railway-track.

The goal of the project is to encourage the cooperation on both sides of the border for the purpose of the railway transport enhancement. There is a long-term plan to build the high-speed railway corridor Prague-Dresden that needs to be supported by the regional planning documents and other preparatory actions. There is a problem of the bottle-neck on Czech-German borders that needs to be solved. The project is coordinated by the Czech state company responsible for the management of railways.

Practical economic courses for high school students and potential employees to increase the employment of youths.

The project addressed increasing requirements to youths at the labor market. The goal was to introduce the real world requirements of employees to high school students and to support them with the practical employment problem solutions. Supporting teaching materials for high school students were developed within the project. The opinion exchange among students, teachers and potential employers was encouraged.

The analysis of mutual interdependences of Czech policies, their methodology and regulatory instruments.

“The project content reacts to the present discrepancies in theoretical definitions and the practical enforcement of state policies aimed at environmental protection, regional development and regional planning. These discrepancies decrease the effectiveness of these policies, namely in relation to their ability to achieve predefined objectives. They happen even despite the fact that the “triangle” of these policies has the potential to achieve multiple effects in reference to the subject of their interest. In many cases a misunderstanding of the defined principles of particular policies and the existing mutual dependencies causes the discrepancies.
The main outputs of the project are an analysis of the theoretical approaches to this issue, a proposal for a methodology to evaluate the influence of natural resources used in regional development and regional planning and a graphic documentation of the relationship between developing a region and natural resources use.

Cooperation on the strategy formulation for the National Development Plan in the field of inovations, knowledge economy and macro-economic forcasting. 

In connection with preparing for a new programme period of European Union policy for social and economic cohesion 2007–2013, it was necessary to update the National Development Plan 2004–2006 (NDP). The National Development Plan was prepared as a key document for the National Strategic Reference Framework of the Czech Republic which was considered as a strategic document for negotiations with European Commission about the programme period 2007–2013. Priority axes and the goals of the NDP stemed from the defined strategy and then they were projected onto the structure of the prepared operational programs in the Czech Republic.

The support of multifunctional land uses in urbar areas through the knowledge sharing and exchange.

“MILUnet aimed at the network creation dedicated to the generation, collection, exchange and transfer of knowledge on the subject of Multifunctional Intensive Land Use (MILU) as a means to realise more sustainable (urban) development in Europe. The lead partner was HABIFORUM, a public organization in the Netherlands focussing on innovative multifunctional intensive land use.The main objectives of MILUnet were to:
1. identify and analyse the opportunities MILU presents for sustainable urban development,
2. identify the barriers to MILU being adopted,
3. find effective policies and instruments to realise MILU,
4. disseminate knowledge on MILU strategies.

Ex-ante evaluation of the strategic document of the Czech Ministry of Agriculture.

The project concerned with ex-ante evaluation of the Operational Programme Rural Development and Multifunctional Agriculture. The team aimed to test the functionality of this document with the use of its ex-ante evaluation. Tt provided background information for the successfull finalization of the programme.

The analysis of the Czech agricultural land management and the overview of the good practise of environmental subsidy provisions in EU member states.

The project provided the analysis of agricultural non-market functions which appear from the definition of international rules and their limits. The aim of the project was the interdisciplinary analysis of the soil treatment and monitoring of agricultural non-market functions. The project also summarized experiences of the European Union member states in the provision of environmental and other subsidies.