Project | engela - energy landscapes

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Energy landscapes: innovation, development and internationalization of research

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Supported Activities

1. Assistance in formation of excellent research teams and their further improvement; especially the development of initializing and starting working positions;
2. Preparation of involving individuals and teams into international networks and research projects;
3. Additional education of scientific workers in the fields of research management, popularization and communication of research and science results, dissemination of research results into a general practice, transfer of technologies and experiences, and developing the knowledge of environmental protection issues.

Project´s Objective

The project’s objective is to form an inter-institutional and multi-disciplinary research and development platform capable of international linkage and competitiveness in research of energy industry development and its impacts on landscape; to integrate foreign experiences and elaborate them into a knowledge portfolio and a theoretical-methodological apparatus which will be utilizable for both the further development and improvement of team expert competencies and a general practice. The means of achieving the objective will include the internationalization of project team (i.e. an involvement of foreign experts), a transfer of gained experiences by holding common field research activities, an organization of few thematic workshops and conferences, presentations of gained results on conferences, and a preparation of common publications. The educational intention of project is provided by the concept of „education by practical field research“, a fundamental positive of the project is the participation of an experienced foreign expert in the research team. Other activities include a variety of specialized trainings for professionals and managers, tutoring of students, and participation of the partner universities´ students on project research activities.

Key Activities

1. Assistance in formation of excellent research teams - development and internalization of a team (i.e. an involvement of foreign experts and transfer of gained experiences by holding common field research activities);
2. Organization of thematic international workshops (preparation of involving individuals and teams into international networks and research projects);
3. Organization of thematic international conferences (preparation of involving individuals and teams into international research networks and projects);
4. Active participation in domestic and international thematic workshops, seminars and conferences;
5. Additional managerial education of scientific workers and office staff in science and research;
6. Active participation of students of cooperating universities in research activities;
7. Interships and expert consultations of scientific workers;
8. Additional education and special trainings of scientific workers;
9. Research tours of scientific workers;
10. Facilities and equipment for upgrading and development of the research team;

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Partners     

- Palacký University in Olomouc, Faculty of Science, Department of Geography

- University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences