Regional Self-Assessment

Content

● Strategies of South Moravian Region

● Challenges and tasks of RIS3

● The duration of region’s activities in this field

● Past / Active supported projects

● Education actively involved

● ERDF / Interreg Europe contribution

● Industry / cluster / sectors involved

● Stakeholders Helix

South Moravian Region

● Size: 7187,8 km2 (31.12.2016)

● Population: 1 178 815 inhabitants (31.3.2017)

● Number of Municipalities: 673, Towns and cities: 49, Districts: 7

● Statutory city: Brno (cca. 380 000 inhabitants)

Research and Innovation Strategy

for Smart Specialisation

● Strategic document - to create a basis and implementation resources to increase the

competitiveness of the economy, especially the development of the knowledge

economy

● An integrated program for local economic transformation, the program strengthens

economic transformation through the use of new research and technological

developments

● It comes out from the targets of the Europe 2020 Strategy

● It is based on 4Cs+C — Competitive advantage, Choices, Critical mass of resources

and talent, Collaborative Leadership and Common sense

vs. Development Strategy 2020

● Excellence in research

● Competitive and innovative companies

● First-class European secondary schools

● First-class European higher education

● Attractive region

vs. Development Strategy 2020

1. Advanced manufacturing and engineering technologies

2. Precision devices

3. Software and hardware development

4. Medicines, medical care and diagnostics

5. Technology for the aerospace industry

Challenges and tasks of The Strategy

● Ecological sustainability, social cohesion, in the narrow sense, for example, a low-carbon

economy and technologies, and the search for ways to address them → direct economic effects and

indirect effects

● Quality and the functioning of institutions is an important condition for the trust of companies →

● Business and innovation (motivation, weak vs. strong, ambitions)

● Research pre-orientation of public research institutions, education system and critical talent

● The aim is to make use of available resources, not only financial, but also human and material, in

the most promising areas of research and entrepreneurship and to strengthen the competitiveness

of the economy in the long term

● The effective interconnection of the academic and business sectors

● to increase the involvement of advanced companies, to ensure the interconnection of RIS with

university strategies, to extend the interventions and the application of the results of the research

also outside the Brno agglomeration

Challenges and tasks in Water Sector

● Drought — erosion — climate change — exteriors

● Water treatment

● Treatment of Sludge from WTP

● Green infrastructure

● Floods and countermeasures

● Technology innovation

The history of region’s activities in this field

● 1850 – Technical University ○ - Hydraulic laboratory

○ - Mechanical (water energy)

● First Kaplan Turbine

● RIS3 (since 2001)

● JMK Strategy 2020

Supported projects I● Programs selection:

○ Development Strategy of the South Moravian Region 2020

○ According to the Development Program JMK 2018-2021 - primary programs in the field of drought and

frost - and their impacts on crops

○ Reduction of emissions from local heating of households in the South Moravian Region

○ Rural Development Program 2018 (support for green areas in public spaces

○ Anti-flood plans

● Projects such as:● In 2015 and 2016 - one-year projects using the grant program of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech

Republic supporting regional cooperation of the AV ČR institutes with the regions. The result was

specialized seminars and cooperation in the development of the information server www.intersucho.cz

● AdMaS

● MENDELU

● CzechGlobe - System for monitoring and predicting impacts of agricultural drought the conclusion of the

Memorandum of Cooperation on issues related to the occurrence and impacts of agricultural drought with

the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Supported projects II

● Past projects:○ ENSEMBLE-based predictions of climate change and its impacts (ENSEMBLES) (GOCE-

CT- 2003-505539) European Commission, 2003 – 2009

○ CECILIA Central and Eastern Europe Climate Change Impact and VulnerabiLIty

Assesment (EU FP 6 037005) European Commission, 2005 – 2009

○ Clarification of previous estimates of impacts of climate change in the water sector

agriculture, agriculture and forestry, and proposals for adaptation measures MŽP, 2006 – 2011

○ Extreme rainfall scenarios for risk analysis of economically feasible assessment and

ecological design of sewer networks (GA106 / 07/0676) Grantová agentura ČR (GAČR), 2006 – 2010

○ Multi-level analysis of urban and suburban climate on the example of medium-sized cities

(205/09/1297) Grantová agentura ČR (GAČR), 2008 – 2012

Supported projects III

● CHMI is currently implementing○ System for Monitoring and Prediction of Agricultural Drought Impacts

○ Methods of correction of vegetation needs of crops taking into account the scenarios of

climate change

○ Development of an automated tool to optimize the monitoring of agricultural soil erosion using

distance methods

○ Prevention of security risks caused by extreme meteorological phenomena – their

specification and innovation of forecasting and warning systems with respect to climate

change

○ Measurement and analysis of air pollution with emphasis on evaluating the share of each

resource group Technological Agency of the Czech Republic

Education actively involved

● Vida Park

● Ecological education programs for schools – Lipka

● Center for Environmental Education Pálava

● EkoCentrum Brno

● Since 2013 biological camps for talented high-school students

● Since 2017 region has been involved as a partner in the "Climate Green"

● Drought Risk in the Danube Region (DriDanube)

ERDF / Interreg Europe / H2020 contribution

● South Moravian Region■ The Regional Authority – Committee of Interregional Relations

– Department of Environment

– Department of Regional Development

■ JIC – South-Moravian Innovation Center

● Central Government Agencies■ Ministry of Agriculture

■ Morava River Basin

■ Ministry of Industry and Trade

■ Ministry of Environment

■ Ministry of Education

Government

● Brno - Statutory City■ Brněnské vodárny a kanalizace, a.s. - Water and Severage

■ Modřice wastewater treatment plant

● Association of Municipalities and Towns■ Local Water Companies

Municipalities

● Universities■ Brno Technical University – Faculty of Civil Engineering

– Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

– Faculty of Chemistry

– AdMaS

■ Masaryk University

– CEITEC

■ Mendel University

● Research Instituts■ VÚV TGM

■ Academy of Science

■ Czech Hydro-Meteorological Institut

■ CzechGlobe

Research + Education

● Strong Industries■ Design, Engineering, R&D

■ Manufacturing

■ Special Services

○ CREA Hydro&Energy■ Hydropower

■ WT + WWT Technology

■ Dam safety

■ Diving – Underwater Works

Companies - SME‘s

Industry / clusters / sectors involved

● Industry○ CREA Hydro&Energy

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