On October 7-11, 2013 project member Jiří Dlouhý participated in the UGAF School on Green IT, organized by the University of Oslo

The school gathered 15 professionals including: Sustainability consultants, IT managers, IT technical staff, systems and network administrators and IT postgraduate students.

Czech and German students and staff from Charles University and Leuphana University of Lueneburg presented their findings from a sustainable development summer school dedicated to understanding stakeholder dynamics in the Ore Mountains and Most region in the town of Litvinov on 7 September 2012. Members of the public and media were invited to participate in the presentation in the auditorium of the Centre for Bachelor Studies at Schola Humanitas - a secondary school specialising in environmental education.

From February to March 2014, four project regional meetings were organised in four regional European hubs that gathered partners from each region to initiate a new international project as a follow-up to the network connections made as part of the MOSUR project. This is University Educators for Sustainable Development (UE4SD), in which the Charles University Environment Center coordinates the Eastern European hub. The first such hub meeting took place in Prague on 2 & 3 February. The purpose of these meetings was to share management and administration issues as well as discuss the first phase of the project which involves each member country mapping its existing professional development opportunities for university educators. Project partners will map national and institutional initiatives, schemes and activities in this area. This data will inform four regional reports and one state of the art report which will be shared at the project annual meeting and COPERNICUS Alliance Conference which will take place from 2-3 October 2014 in Prague, Czech Republic.

You can find also some photos from the Prague meeting here: Day1 and Day 2

A final project meeting of the MOSUR partners took place in the historic administration building of Charles University on 29 April 2014. During the afternoon session of the meeting, members of the public had an opportunity to hear about the most interesting project outputs from individual partner organisations. At the conclusion of the meeting, a discussion took place on the options for continuing cooperation among academic institutions with other social actors from the non-profit and private sectors. 

Fifteen representatives of 8 partner organisations took part in the final meeting (the Charles University Environment Center, the University of South Bohemia, the Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Masaryk University, the Business Leaders Forum, Veronica Ecological Institute, the University of Finance and Administration, and Green Circle). The public session in the afternoon was introduced by Charles University Environment Center director Prof. RNDr. Bedřich Moldan, CSc. and apart from the project partners, several other interested parties from the public also participated. 

To view the outputs presented to members of the
public, go the Czech version of this article.

Photographic record of the meeting

The Charles University Environment Center organized scientific writing and editorial workshops designed specifically for Czech students interested in publishing academic articles in impact journals; one of the workshops was for academic journal editing and review staff and provided an insight into impact journal methodology. The workshops were led by Associate Professor Rodrigo Lozano from Utrecht University, who is Associate Editor for the Journal of Cleaner Production (Impact Factor for 2012 = 3.398). in mid-February 2014

In January 2014, a Pyramid workshop was organised by the Charles University Environment Center (Charles University in Prague) in collaboration with the United Nations Information Center in Prague as part of a full-day event on “The World after 2015 – Education for Sustainability” aimed at Czech professionals interested in education for sustainable development.

The Charles University Environment Center is happy to make a preliminary announcement of two editorial workshops to be staged in mid-February 2014 and designed specifically for Czech students interested in publishing academic articles in impact journals. The workshops will be led by Associate Professor Rodrigo Lozano from Utrecht University, who is Associate Editor for the Journal of Cleaner Production (Impact Factor for 2012 = 3.398).

A member of the Charles University Environment Center took the opportunity to examine the Croatian approach to incorporating sustainability into the education system during a study visit to Zagreb 14-17 October 2013 funded by the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP). Participating in the study group were representatives of Northern Ireland, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Latvia, Romania, and Macedonia representing a cross-section of the education sector from secondary school principals to university academics and higher education teachers to NGO representatives and government education officials.

A successful start has been made to establishing a Czech Regional Centre of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development.

The MOSUR-sponsored two-day international RCE workshop and conference staged at the Jan Evangelista Purkyně University (UJEP) rektorat assembly hall in Ústí nad Labem on 9 and 10 February 2012 attracted over 40 participants. Czech attendees came from as far afield as Ostrava and České Budějovice, while international guests came from the Netherlands, Germany, Austria and Israel to discuss current regional sustainable development issues in the Czech Republic, examine the options for forming the first Regional Centre for Expertise in the Czech Republic, and share experience from existing RCEs.