CZECH BROWNFIELDS PARTNERSHIP

Project coordinator: Barbara Vojvodíková

The goal was to create network of people who are in any sense involved in brownfields and who would like to be informed about ongoing activities on various brownfields

ProjectProject

Project

Project Organization

expert Organization

expert

How to attract people to the platform and how to stimulate information exchange and keep it going

practical placements

seminars

workshops

partnership

STUDENTS

Partners (5)

Cooperating organizations

(42)

Project structure

PartnersVŠB- Technical university of Ostrava – coordinatorMunicipality of OstravaMunicipality of Ústí nad Labem IURS - Institute for sustainable development on

settlement o.s. IREAS, Institute for structural policy, o.p.s

Cooperation organisation

Practical placement - 5 days

Cooperated organization ask

for students

Partners ask for students

Student from VŠB TU Ostrava are interesting in

practical placement

Students from other Czech universities are interesting in

practical placement

Practical placemetn database

Practical information

Presentation of results

Students by universities -108 students

56%

16%

11%

1%

4%4

%

4%2% 4%

VŠB -TUO

Ostravská univerzita

UJEP- Ústí nad Labem

TU Liberec

VUT - Brno

Masarykova U. Brno

Mendelova U. Brno

UP Olomouc

JAMU- BrnoSituation 1/2014

Students' practical placements

NGOs

Private firm;

Municipality or regional office

Firm owned by state

municipality or regions;

University, research, centers

LESSONS LEARNED …..

Positives:• System of offering practical placement without

additional stimuli has proven good as students apply for placement only if they are really interested.

• It turned out to be an important idea of providing practical placements also for other Czech universities – organization asked for students with various skills and fields of study.

LESSONS LEARNED …..

Negatives:• Other universities' staff did not pass information

about practical placements to studentsNeutral:• Students usually lost interest in practical placement,

if appropriate placement could not been found in three months period from enlistment of a student in the database,

Practical placement

Positives:• 12 students find job in organizations• 15 students find part time job during summer holiday • Students got a lot of useful information and present it on

seminarsNegatives:• 2 supervisors don't care about the students• 2 students was not able to finish practical placement• .

INTERACTIVE THEMATIC SEMINARS

• Seminars should serve as a imaginary link between organizations and students on the level of presentations as well as on personal level.

LESSONS LEARNED

Positives: • Representatives from participating organization

have good opportunity to meet together• Lectures were of good quality and not only

students got to know many new and interesting viewpoints and facts.

LESSONS LEARNED

Negatives:• There is very good linkage between practical

placements and seminars. On the other hand much worse linkage is between seminars and workshops.

• This caused problems as many workshop attendees lacked understanding of concepts presented at the seminar.

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Topics and dates of seminars• Methods and strategies of brownfields regeneration,

mitigation measures, sustainable development of areas – 6. - 7. 10. 2011

• ReDevelopment – PPP, management, financing, legislative framework of brownfields regeneration – 1. - 2. 3. 2012

• Urban and architectural quality and sustainability of brownfields regeneration projects – 11. - 12. 10. 2012

• Environmental and technical aspects of brownfields regeneration – 7. - 8. 3. 2013

• Financial aspects and management in brownfields regeneration – management, financing – 10. -11. 10. 2013

• Sociological issues of brownfields regenerations – 6. - 7. 3. 2014

Seminars

Positives:• About 300 student attended seminars• About 50 experts have a presentation on our seminars• More 3O person from cooperation organization per

seminar

Negatives:• one presentation no longer than 45 minuets• Excursion more interesting for organization than students

Workshops

Workshop “Alexander Mine – cultural and technical heritage open to its surroundings and the region” -

10. - 12. listopadu 2011

Workshop “ Where is the lost glory of Předlice?”–

11. – 13. 4. 2012 v Ústí nad Labem

Workshops

Workshop “What should be done to bring back life to Hrušov?” - Ostrava Czech republic

15. - 17. 11. 2012

Workshop “Brownfields in Trnava – how to make use of them”– Trnava, Slovakia 23. – 26. 4. 2013

LESSONS LEARNED

Positives: • Students from different universities and different of

fields of study were brought to work together on common problem.

Negatives: • Students who did not attend seminar preceding the

workshop lacked knowledge of some concepts presented at seminar so they tended to "reinvent the wheel".

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Workshops

Positives:• About 150 student attended workshops• Students from 6 universities• Students cooperation

CONCLUSIONS• This project demonstrates that students are willing to do more than

what is obligatory • Project have now 38 cooperation organization which represent

more than 90 person in Platform register• Practical placement - - 11 organisation will offer activity to

students• More then 15 person are redy to make a presentation on seminar• Workshops – we have a special small grant for one workshop in

October

•Network - platform

FUTURE?

• Practical placement - - 11 organisation will offer activity to students

• More then 15 person are redy to make a presentation on seminar

• Workshops – we have a special small grant for one workshop in October

•Network??????

http://brownfields.vsb.cz

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION