Provider: Interreg Central Europe
Recipient: Autonomous Province of Trento
Recipient: Technische Universität Dresden
Recipient: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Recipient: University of Padova
Recipient: Slovenian Forestry Institute
Recipient: University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences
Recipient: CENIA
Recipient: Municipality of Ajdovščina
Coordinating recipient: Saxon State Ministry for Regional Development
Keywords: Wildfire risk, climate change
Annotation of project:
Wildfire CE’s primary objective is to enable border regions, the communities and landscapes within them, to prepare, respond and adapt to the increasing wildfire risk resulting from climate change. The project will change the way we assess and manage fire risk in the border regions and the wider territories. Through cooperation across borders, sharing knowledge and experience it will lead to a more integrated, targeted and inclusive approach in dealing with this increasing threat. Until now, the management of wildfire risk has been conducted at the territorial level, with mismatched approaches to fire warning levels, land management and communication of risk. The mapping of fuels and propagation potential is seldom conducted at the territorial level, let alone across borders. WildfireCE will map these fuels, fire behaviour and propagation potential across borders, it will identify where actions are necessary, what those actions are and it will implement those actions in Pilot Regions. Total project budget: €2.25 million (80% co-financed by the Interreg CENTRAL EUROPE 2021-2027 programme ERDF)

Provider: Technologická agentura ČR
Coordinating recipient: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Another participant in the project: Amper Savings, a.s.
Keywords: modelling techniques; renewable energy; meteorology
Annotation of project:
The aim of the project proposal is to create a methodology needed to account for not registered small renewable energy plants on the Czech republic territory. In order to achieve this goal, we propose to create a software that will be able to utilize measured data from the energy sector and meteorology and process them into a reconstruction of the past energy production. An integral part of this SW shall be a database of collected input data and results. On the basis of these data, it will be possible to simulate future electricity production assuming various scenarios of installed capacity changes. This tool will be capable of performing simulations under different weather conditions. Finally, a certified methodology defining the use of these data and SW in the practice will be created.

Provider: Technologická agentura ČR
Coordinating recipient: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Another participant in the project: Amper Savings, a.s.
Keywords: weather phenomena; distribution and the transmission system; power supply outages
Annotation of project:
The main goal of the project is to establish and refine the current ERÚ methodology for assessing weather phenomena that can lead to breakdowns in distribution and the transmission system. Meteorological situations that lead to these disturbances will be determined and their intensity will also be investigated with respect to subsequent outages. In addition, meteorological parameters or data will be determined according to which it can be established that the given fault really occurred as a result of adverse weather. The project will also propose a database system that should be created for these purposes in the future, taking into account what data and quantities it should contain, both in a minimalistic version and in the maximum version with regard to financial and technical demands.

Provider: Technologická agentura ČR
Coordinating recipient: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Another participant in the project: Vysoké učení technické v Brně
Another participant in the project: Povodí Moravy s.p.
Keywords: levees; remote sensing; arial analysis; inundation and watercourses
Annotation of project:
The aim of the proposed project is to provide methodological support for the assessment of the possibilities of reconnecting the disused parts of the floodplain to the watercourse and their use for flooding, including the revitalisation measures often proposed at present. The methodology will be based on a multidisciplinary approach to the collection and evaluation of historical and current data. It will use different spatial scale, from the whole catchment to detailed local study as a basis for the design of the measures and will include the views of experts and the local community. The results of the project will support the activities of the river basin manager in improving the natural condition of the floodplains while maintaining the water management functions of the system.

Provider: Technologická agentura ČR
Coordinating recipient: Mendelova univerzita v Brně
Another participant in the project: Nadace Partnerství
Another participant in the project: Ostravská univerzita v Ostravě
Another participant in the project: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Keywords: urban greenery; green infrastructure; ecosystem services; urban biodiversity
Annotation of project:
The main goal of the project is to identify and quantify the importance of overlooked urban green spaces (OMZ) for the sustainable development of cities and to propose their appropriate use and management. The main objective will be achieved through sub-objectives: 1) Defining OMZ areas and their importance in the system of blue-green infrastructure of settlements, including socio-economic aspects 2) Delineation of OMZ areas in selected model cities of the Czech Republic and inventory of biodiversity on characteristic areas of OMZ 3) Proposal of care principles for areas overlooked by urban greenery with the aim of maintaining or supporting the provision of ecosystem services by these areas

Provider: Technologická agentura ČR
Coordinating recipient: Mendelova univerzita v Brně
Another participant in the project: Ostravská univerzita v Ostravě
Another participant in the project: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Another participant in the project: Sweco a.s.
Keywords: ecosystem services; water management planning; sustainability; adaptation measures, climate changes
Annotation of project:
The main goal of the project is to modify the concept of ecosystem services for use in the conditions of water planning in the Czech Republic. The following sub-goals are aimed at its fulfillment: C1) Create a methodology for evaluating the quality of ecosystem services within water bodies, using a combination of freely available datasets and data owned by participating institutions; C2) Through the concept of ecosystem services, support the fulfillment of the objectives of the European Water Directive and the National Action Plan for Adaptation to Climate Change; C3) Express and present the value of selected, most frequently implemented water management measures through the value of ecosystem services; C4) Determining the priorities of the main groups of stakeholders

Provider: Technologická agentura ČR
Coordinating recipient: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci
Another participant in the project: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Another participant in the project: World from Space s.r.o.
Another participant in the project: ASITIS s.r.o.
Keywords: climate change; adaptation measures; landscape vulnerability; vulnerability mapping; regional strategy
Annotation of project:
Create a regional typology of the whole Czech Republic (map & database) in terms of landscape vulnerability and urgency of adaptation measures in the landscape. The regional typology will be based on analysing a large set of input data and on the concept of environmental differentiation. The analyses will be carried out at a local scale. - Identify the most appropriate approaches to assess the urgency of adaptation measures - Identification of appropriate datasets concerning the established criteria - Development of a methodological approach for determining vulnerability for the whole country at a detailed landscape scale - Series of spatial analyses for individual vulnerability areas -Synthesis of evaluation criteria and creation of the final reg. typology of the CR

Provider: Technologická agentura ČR
Coordinating recipient: myco s.r.o.
Another participant in the project: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Keywords: mycelium;circular economy;compostable;sustainability;biomaterials;packaging;waste valorization
Annotation of project:
The goal of the project is to develop an eco-innovative generation of mycelium-based products, using systematic planned R&D of parts of the production processes of biodegradable materials and their properties. In relation to the environment, the goal is to replace plastics with myco products, which are ecologically degradable thanks to their processing from bio material - waste biomass and fungal mycelium. The project aims to achieve partial innovations in the production processes, which will bring about a comprehensive innovation of products produced from mycelium. The key parameters for R&D are to achieve sufficient reduction to complete elimination of contamination of biomass input materials by developing optimal conditions and technologies for substrate sterilization and inoculation

Provider: Technologická agentura ČR
Coordinating recipient: Mendelova univerzita v Brně
Another participant in the project: Výzkumný ústav lesního hospodářství a myslivosti, v.v.i.
Another participant in the project: Výzkumný ústav zemědělské techniky, v. v. i.
Another participant in the project: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Another participant in the project: A. Pöttinger, spol. s r.o.
Keywords: agriculture techniques; wildlife protection; protection of biodiversity; precision farming
Annotation of project:
The subject of the project is the development of techniques for precision agriculture supporting the biodiversity of agroecosystems by preventing the injury and killing of animals. Based on the analysis of the key factors of the used agricultural technology affecting the biodiversity of agro-ecosystems, a rigorous verification of the functionality of the existing prototypes and the used assistance devices (techniques) will be carried out, subsequently an innovation of the assistance system used during fodder harvesting will be carried out and the development of the technique and related technology will be carried out, which it will also be applied during the "seedbed preparation" and when applying plant protection products. The developed technique will be continuously verified.

Provider: Technologická agentura ČR
Coordinating recipient: Ostravská univerzita v Ostravě
Another participant in the project: Český hydrometeorologický ústav
Another participant in the project: Mendelova univerzita v Brně
Another participant in the project: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Another participant in the project: Výzkumný a šlechtitelský ústav ovocnářský Holovousy s. r. o.
Another participant in the project: INESAN s. r. o.
Keywords: climate change; weather extreme, resilience, public health, heat island, urbanism
Annotation of project:
The objectives of the project are to broaden and stabilise the knowledge base on weather extremes, in urban agglomerations, and their impacts on quality of life, health and the environment, including scenarios for urban climate developments in the context of climate change. Furthermore, to bring new tools for holistic solutions to the mitigation of these threats and adaptation to climate change in an urban environment using both nature-based measures (e.g. vegetation) and supporting the resilience of cities (residents and institutions) in both areas of prevention and mitigation of the crisis impact. The solutions will respect the Sendai framework, the SDGs, the Climate Change Adaptation Strategy, the Concept of Environmental Security and the principles of sustainability.