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The aim of the Study Tour was to acquaint the Study
Tour participants primarily with the following topics:
- policy framework in sustainable development especially national
strategy for sustainable development (including the process of
preparation, modules, outcomes, its link with other processes, e.g.
EU accession, etc.,
- institutional framework of sustainable development,
- local sustainable development activities especially Local Agenda
21
and to deliver them information and experience from
the area of sustainable development and Local Agenda 21 and their
implementation in the Czech Republic combining different views
(government, NGOs, academia).
The Study Tour programme included lectures and
discussions on the following subjects:
- Sustainable Development Strategy in Czech Republic;
- Reform of Public Administration;
- Sustainable Development in Czech Republic – creation of
conditions;
- Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control;
- Healthy Cities Project (National Network of Healthy Cities of the
Czech Republic);
- Presentation of work of environmental NGOs using as an example
work of NGO ”Green Circle”;
- Complex programme of sustainable development in a region
implemented on LA 21 principles (”Koniklec Agency”).
As a part of Study Tour programme the following
visits were organized:
- visit to the Czech Environmental Institute, Environmental
education and public participation department where the participants
were informed about the institute activities in the field of Local
Agenda 21 and sustainable development,
- visit to Kladno town with the aim to acquire information a
experience from the development of this town which went through a
difficult period during the transformation process and where the
Local Agenda 21 activities are successfully implemented. Therefore
such a visit was included into the programme and the participants
met the representatives of Municipal Authorities of Kladno town, the
Labor Office and AVE Training Center.
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