Category: Workshop

Mobility and UJEP, where have we gone?

The seminar of the Smart City – Smart Region – Smart Community project, which was mainly devoted to mobility, took place on Thursday, February 6, 2020 at the J. E. Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem. The seminar was attended by representatives of the SMART ITI project team from UJEP and FD CTU, representatives of the region, the city and other experts dealing with the topics of transport and transport behavior.

Presentations from the workshop are available here.

To compare the development we have seen in a year of hard work, you can look at the results of last year’s seminar:

The full text and program in Czech

Traditional Academic Writing at UJEP

How to make scientific publications, how to process an idea into an article, how to succeed in a serious journal, what to avoid and how your article will be evaluated… These questions will be answered by a seminar led by two very successful academic colleagues from UJEP Lenka Slavíková and Josef Trögl.

The seminar will take place on Tuesday, March 24, 2020 in meeting room 1. 14 MFC UJEP, Pasteurova 1, Ústí nad Labem.

Rainwater management – platform for the third time

Water does not grow on trees, but trees and other greenery need it to grow. Even so, one part of the discussion could be summarized as part of the third meeting of the Platform for Green and Blue Infrastructure held on 27 January 2020 at the Ministry of the Environment in Prague. The theme was rainwater management in the city.

The main purpose of the Platform is to bring together experts from different fields who have something to say on current topics related to climate change and greenery and water features. During the January meeting of the Platform, the topic of rainwater management was discussed jointly by garden and landscape architects, experts on smart buildings, water managers, economists, urban planners, designers, sociologists, transport engineers and representatives of state and local government.

SMART CITY – SMART REGION – SMART COMMUNITY
Project number: CZ.02.1.01 / 0.0 / 0.0 / 17_048 / 0007435

The full text of the news in Czech

Winter and summer school about energy systems in the Czech Republic and Austria

IEEP in cooperation with FEE CTU and the Technical University in Vienna is opening the 14th year of successful interdisciplinary bilateral winter and summer schools on energy systems in the Czech Republic and Austria.

Meeting dates:

Week in Prague – winter part
3 – 7 February 2020

Week in Vienna – summer part
14-19 June 2020

Link to flyer for the event

More information about the course will be given by Miss Lenka Zemkova (zemkova (at) e-academia.eu).

The full text of the news in Czech

What hampers rainwater management in cities?

Rainwater Management (RM) in the city is the topic for the third multi-disciplinary workshop of the Platform for Green and Blue Infrastructure. The meeting will take the form of a roundtable discussion, which will address the measures to support the management of rainwater in cities and will also present the upcoming methodology for cities.

The round table takes place on 27 January from 14:00 to approx. 16:00 in Prague in the premises of the Ministry of the Environment, room number 900 at Vršovická 65, Prague 10.

We wrote about previous platform meetings:

Greenery in the city not only as an aesthetic element
Platform for green and blue infrastructure

A platform for green and blue infrastructure for the second time

The Round Table is organized in cooperation with the University Center for Energy Efficient CTU Buildings and the TAČR project Water in the City: Blue and Green Infrastructure Interdisciplinary.

The full text of the news in Czech

A platform for green and blue infrastructure for the second time

Prague plans to plant a million trees in the fight against climate change, and up to ten million trees within the Czech Republic. Is it enough? It will help? What role can modern technology and the Internet play in these efforts?

We will be able to hear about the platform in the future as well

Based on this meeting of the Platform for Green and Blue Infrastructure, a common position of the Platform will be formed in the form of the so-called Policy Brief addressed to local government representatives, legislators and other stakeholders in the field.

The meeting of experts within the Platform will continue. “Another topic of the Platform will be the topic of rainwater management in cities and municipalities,” added Jan Macháč, FSE UJEP, the main organizer of the Platform.

The platform for green and blue infrastructure was established within the project of the J. E. Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem SMART CITY – SMART REGION – SMART COMMUNITY.

The full text of the news in czech

Czech-German conference and green and blue infrastructure

On Thursday, November 28, 2019, a Czech-German conference was held at UJEP dealing with the importance of green and blue infrastructure for the quality of life in cities. The aim of the conference was to present and discuss partial results of the cross-border project BIDELIN, which focuses on the evaluation of ecosystem services in the partner cities of Liberec, Děčín and Dresden.

Ecosystem services are the benefits that one obtains from nature. Especially in cities, it is important to cool the surroundings and reduce the costs of air-conditioning, water retention and flood damage, capture of harmful substances from the air, but also aesthetic function and positive impacts on the health of the population. The conference presented the evaluation of parks and other greenery in cities. The network of interconnected water and green elements in the urban environment is referred to as green-blue infrastructure.

Program of the event HERE.

Platform for green and blue infrastructure

Existing experience in planting greenery in cities and in the countryside, barriers and benefits and costs of local and national projects and the possibilities, pros and cons of using modern technologies in the area of green and blue infrastructure. These will be the main topics for the second workshop of the Platform for Green and Blue Infrastructure.

The meeting will take place on November 28, 2019, from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm in the meeting room of the Faculty of Social and Economic Studies at the UJEP Campus in Vilka (Pasteurova 1).

Two topics will be discussed during the meeting:

  1. A million, ten million trees! Is it enough? It will help?
  2. Urban greenery and the Internet of Things – opportunities for development

The workshop is realized within the project Smart City – Smart Region – Smart Community.

The full text of the news in Czech

Urban greenery in the hands of students from all over the world

The International Summer School on the Integration of the Concept of Ecosystem Services into Urban Spatial Planning took place at UJEP on 17-21 June. Students from all over the world came to us. They were acquainted with specific methods of mapping and evaluation of ecosystem services.

The Summer School was run by two faculties – the Faculty of Socio-Economic and the Faculty of Science. The aim of all-week activities was to acquaint students with selected methods of mapping and evaluation of ecosystem services and incl. their application in a specific model territory.

Czech Radio report and accompanying video

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Smart City: Options for Interdisciplinarity

What does “smart city” mean for a sociologist, geographer, economist, artist, designer? We will look for answers at a workshop that will focus on the possibilities of interdisciplinary collaboration in research on ‘smart cities’, with a primary focus on topics related to the socio-economic development of Ústí nad Labem.

The event will take place on April 25, 2019 in the FSE building in room 223 from 10 am to 1 pm and is open to all UJEP employees and students of various disciplinary orientation as well as to the public.

The full text of the news in Czech

More information at marketa.dolejsova@ujep.cz

The workshop is supported by:
CZ.02.2.69 / 0.0 / 0.0 / 16_027 / 0008492
U21 – High-quality human resources to strengthen the international environment