From 10 to 14 November 2025, I took part in the Regional Youth Workshop on IPBES for Europe and Central Asia at the International Academy for Nature Conservation on the Isle of Vilm, Germany. Hosted by the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN), the workshop brought together early-career participants working on biodiversity, ecosystem services... Continue Reading →
From 29 September to 1 October 2025, the interdisciplinary research community engaged in archetype analysis convened for the 8th International Workshop on Archetype Analysis in Sustainability Research. Hosted at the Thünen Institute of Biodiversity in Braunschweig, Germany, the event brought together around 40 researchers, providing a dynamic forum for exchanging and advancing ideas at the... Continue Reading →
The recent collaborative workshop held in Oslo on 15–16 April brought together a diverse and interdisciplinary community of 32 scholars and practitioners from across 18 countries, including David Stella and Simeon Vaňo from the Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, united by a shared interest in exploring prefigurative politics on transformations.... Continue Reading →
Projekt ENABLElocal sdružuje partnerské instituce z Česka (CzechGlobe), Německa (ISOE) a Švédska (Lund University) a zaměřuje se na výzkum využívání dat o biodiverzitě v praxi ochrany přírody a využívání území. Naším cílem je podpořit tok dat mezi aktéry v oblasti ochrany přírody, systémy monitorování biodiverzity a národními, evropskými a globálními datovými infrastrukturami. Výzkum realizujeme v... Continue Reading →
On 21 January 2025, a research workshop was held to explore possible pathways to transform the energy sector and food systems in the Czech Republic towards sustainability. The workshop was organized by the Department of Socio-Ecological Analysis of the Global Change Research Institute CAS (CzechGlobe). Apart from the research team, a group of ten stakeholders from various transformative initiatives, networks, and social...
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V úterý 21. ledna 2025 proběhl výzkumný workshop, který hledal možné cesty k transformaci sektoru energetiky a potravinových systémů v Česku směrem k udržitelnosti. Setkání proběhlo v režii Oddělení sociálně-ekologické analýzy Ústavu výzkumu globální změny AV ČR (CzechGlobe) a kromě výzkumného týmu se jej zúčastnila i desítka stakeholderů z transformativních iniciativ, networků a sociálních...
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The PLANET4B 3rd Consortium Meeting took place from October 8th to 10th, 2024, in Budapest. It was an insightful gathering aimed at advancing the project's objectives. Held at the centrally located Impact Hub Budapest, the meeting brought together all project partners to review progress, share findings, and strategize the next steps. Over three days, project... Continue Reading →
The Beskydy Workshop 2024, held from September 24–26 at Hotel Horal in Velké Karlovice, focused on the theme of "Nature-Based Governance: Coevolutionary and Transformative Perspectives on the Biodiversity and Climate Crises." This scientific gathering brought together researchers and practitioners to explore nature-based governance (NBG) from a coevolutionary and co-creative perspective by responding to people's and... Continue Reading →
V červnu 2024 proběhl již druhý výzkumný workshop na téma resilienčního myšlení vedený týmem vědců a vědkyň z Národního Institutu SYRI působících také na Ústavu výzkumu globální změny AV ČR. Na workshopu se s výzkumným týmem setkali opět také aktéři a aktérky snižování rizik katastrof v Česku. Jedním z cílů setkání bylo představit dosavadní výsledky... Continue Reading →
Ve čtvrtek 23. května 2024 se v Praze uskutečnil výzkumný workshop mapující mechanismy transformativní změny směrem k udržitelnosti v sektorech energetiky, potravin a zemědělství v Česku. Organizovalo jej Oddělení sociálně-ekologické analýzy (SE Lab) Ústavu výzkumu globální změny AV ČR (ÚVGZ). Šlo už o druhé setkání výzkumnic a výzkumníků našeho oddělení se stakeholdery, kteří se v... Continue Reading →
Sustainable land use strategies in both urban and rural areas in Europe must be planned to meet biodiversity, climate and human wellbeing in a changing world. The PLUS Change project aims to help achieve this through a series of research activities and participatory workshops in 12 case studies from 11 EU countries. One of these... Continue Reading →
In April 2024, a two-day workshop on Mobility Communities was held in Porto, Portugal, as part of series of workshops organised under the Knowledge Brokerage Programme within the project SSH Centre. CzechGlobe, a partner of the project consortium, was represented by Tereza Prášilová, who attended the workshop as an active observer. First day of the... Continue Reading →
A workshop on the sustainability aspect of the solidarity economy was held at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) on April 22, 2024, in Budapest. The Culture Club @ ELTE TáTK organized the workshop to increase awareness and understanding of sustainability among college, master's, and PhD students. CzechGlobe's Elif Tugba Simsek... Continue Reading →
We have concluded our regular meetings with local actors in the One Nature project case studies with the fourth round of our workshops. The aim of these case studies in the three selected protected areas in Czechia is to identify and evaluate significant nature’s contributions to people and their relationships using the socio-cultural assessment method.... Continue Reading →
The PLUS Change project aims to develop strategies and decision-making processes for land use that effectively address challenges related to climate change, biodiversity, and human well-being. The project involves interventions across diverse political, economic, societal, material, and cultural contexts, involving actors at multiple decision-making levels including the individual, land management, planning, and policy levels. This... Continue Reading →
In January 2024 a workshop on Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EA) was held at the Czech Statistical Office as part of the Czech Presidency of the Visegrad Group (V4). The workshop was attended not only by representatives from the V4 countries, but also from Germany and Estonia. At the workshop, country representatives exchanged information on the... Continue Reading →
In January 2024, the Department of Human Dimensions at CzechGlobe participated in the Project Review meeting and Consortium meeting of the Horizon-funded project, SSH Centre (Social Science and Humanities for Climate, Energy and Transport Research Excellence), held in Brussels. The Department of Human Dimensions at CzechGlobe is a partner institution in the SSH Centre project, which is... Continue Reading →
V lednu 2024 se v prostorách Akademického konferenčního centra AV uskutečnil workshop na téma scénářů budoucnosti, organizovaný Oddělením sociálně ekologické analýzy. Šlo o jedno z pravidelných setkání pracovní skupiny Společenské odolnosti, jež funguje pod Národním institutem SYRI. Tato setkání slouží mimo jiné jako místo, kde jednotlivé týmy představují jak svá teoretická východiska a znalosti k tématu společenské... Continue Reading →
The FoSTA Health team conducted the first round of cross-country stakeholder consultation workshops for the project across Zambia, Tanzania, South Africa, and Malawi between October 11 and 12, 2023. The workshops aimed to glean diverse perspectives on food system transformations, focusing on One Health outcomes. These engagements are the first step toward exploring how human,... Continue Reading →
Vědkyně a vědci z Národního Institutu SYRI uspořádali v listopadu 2023 workshop resilienčního myšlení pro aktéry snižování rizik katastrof v Česku. Tento navazoval na předchozí spolupráci a představoval úvodní část výzkumného projektu zaměřeného na adaptaci na změny klimatu a řešení krizových situací. Hlavním cílem byla prezentace výzkumných výsledků z oblasti sociálně-ekologické resilience a představení konceptu... Continue Reading →
In the week of 23-27 October 2023, the Department of Human Dimensions of Global Change was represented at two events in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, as part of the ongoing activities of the PLANET4B project. The 2023 Radboud conference on Earth System Governance brought together different scientific disciplines and stakeholders from different sectors to connect science... Continue Reading →
If we look at nature through the lens of ecosystem services, sooner or later the question comes to mind as to whether some services compete with each other, and if so, how much? Moreover, which services compete with each other in the eyes of e.g. farmers, officials or nature conservationists? In this post we present... Continue Reading →
At the beginning of October, Pavlína Schultzová, Lenka Suchá, and Zuzana Harmáčková from the Department of Social-Ecological Analysis participated in a workshop dedicated to Climate Science Communication organized by People in Need as part of the European Climate Foundation (ECF) project. This workshop brought together both scientists and journalists who specialize in communicating and popularizing... Continue Reading →
V termínu 2. - 5. 10. 2023 jsme se zúčastnili druhého tematického workshopu projektu SELINA s podtitulem „Advancing solutions“ (for mapping, assessment and accounting of ecosystems and their services). Workshop pořádala partnerská instituce Universidad Rey Juan Carlos ve španělském Madridu. Projekt SELINA (akronym pro Science for Evidence-based and sustainabLe decisIons about NAatural capital) je podpořen... Continue Reading →
Zajímavou součástí vědecké práce Oddělení sociálně-ekologické analýzy byl červencový participativní workshop na mezinárodní Letní škole v Josefově. Studentky divadelních oborů z Česka, Slovenska a Polska si na něm osvojily stěžejní poznatky výzkumu sociálně-ekologické resilience a získaly příležitost je ihned aplikovat při tvůrčí kooperativní imaginaci resilientních budoucností. Anna Bromová a Lenka Suchá tak při workshopu s názvem „Connective energy, collective... Continue Reading →
In May and June this year, as part of the IP LIFE One Nature project, the third series of participatory seminars was held in selected Natura 2000 locations (Třeboňsko, Křivoklátsko, Slavkovský les). One of the objectives of this series of workshops was to find out how different groups of actors (mayors, officials, agricultural and forestry... Continue Reading →
Ve dnech 31. 8.-1. 9.2023 v Litomyšli proběhl závěrečný workshop projektu Coop4Wellbeing, který dlouhodobě usiluje o propojování české rozvojové spolupráce (ZRS ČR) a sociálně-ekologického výzkumu v Západní provincii Zambie. Cílem závěrečného workshopu bylo: Představit realizátorům ZRS ČR klíčová zjištění terénního výzkumu v Zambii Společně diskutovat tyto výsledky a jejich praktické využití při designu a implementaci rozvojových... Continue Reading →
In the Horizon Europe-funded project BIONEXT, European changemakers are exploring new visions for nature-centered Europe for 2050. In the first out of three BIONEXT workshops, in May 2023 in Greece, changemakers from different backgrounds created visions of what a nature-centred Europe can look like in the year 2050. Who are the changemakers participating in BIONEXT... Continue Reading →
In the second half of May and at the turn of June, the third series of our participatory workshops took place in three geographical areas of interest (in Třeboň on 16 May, in Bečov nad Teplou on 30 May and in Křivoklát on 1 June). The focus of this series was conflicting interests in the... Continue Reading →
What are the possible solutions that would help remove barriers to landscape change and transition towards sustainable land management from the perspective of local stakeholders? In February 2023, we held the last round of Just Scapes participatory workshops. For the past two years, we have been doing research focused on possible landscape and land management... Continue Reading →
In November, the second series of our participatory workshops (continuing from the first series as part of the One Nature project) took place in the Slavkov Forest, Třeboň and Křivoklát regions. Once again, we invited representatives from a wide range of disciplines that have impact on the shaping of local nature and landscape. The content... Continue Reading →
Authors: Kateřina Mácová, Jitka Kozubková We introduced the topic of ecosystem services to almost sixty people working in nature conservation at two seminars held in Prague and Brno in May (as part of the One Nature project). This was a step forward to greater availability of the concept of assessment of nature’s services and contributions... Continue Reading →
In the second half of April and at the beginning of May, participatory workshops were held in Slavkovský les, Křivoklát and Třeboň for invited stakeholders who have the potential to influence the local landscape and nature through their activities in the regions. Representatives of the forestry, fishing, mining and agricultural industries, representatives of...
Kladská nature trail in PLA Slavkovský les In January 2022 we visited three case study sites where we met with representatives of the Nature Conservation Agency of the Czech Republic (NCA CR) and thus established key cooperation leading to the smooth running of future activities of the One Nature project in the areas (more broadly... Continue Reading →
Projekt Jedna příroda se intenzivně věnuje využití konceptu ekosystémových služeb v praxi. Naše oddělení a partneři z Centra pro otázky životního prostředí Univerzity Karlovy (COŽP UK) uspořádali pro odborníky z různých institucí v loňském a letošním roce celkem šest participativních seminářů o ekosystémových službách neboli přínosech přírody lidem, které se kvůli vyhlášeným protiepidemickým opatřením všechny... Continue Reading →
As part of one of the project actions focused on the evaluation of socio-economic benefits of the Natura 2000 network, we are currently preparing case studies that will show the usability of the analysis of ecosystem services and of the values of natural capital for individual stakeholder groups...
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