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Research Centre for Toxic Compounds in the Environment
Centre is an independent department at Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, with its own research and development, educational programmes and expert activities within the field of environmental contamination. Centre focuses on persistent organic pollutants (POPs), polar organic compounds, toxic metals and their species and natural toxins - cyanotoxins.
Centre is formed by research divisions, service laboratories and technology-transfer centres:
- Environmental chemistry and modelling
- Ecotoxicology and risk assessment
- Trace laboratory
- Laboratory of data analyses
Joint Centres
- National POPs Centre (joint with the Czech ministry of environment)
- Regional POPs Centre for Central and Eastern Europe (joint Centre with the Stockholm convention / UNEP - nominated by the Czech ministry of environment)
- National laboratory for cyanotoxins (joint laboratory with the Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences)
The GENASIS project focused on building the environmental database was selected to be published in the SYNERGIES SUCCESS STORIES of the Stockholm, Rotterdam and Basel Conventions.
The project of the Czech National Centre for Persistent Organic Pollutants as an example of the best learning practice supporting sustainable development in the regions was selected for publication in Multi-Actor Learning for Regional Sustainable Development in Europe: A Handbook of Best Practice.
Multi-Actor Learning for Regional Sustainable Development in Europe: A Handbook of Best Practice
The New York Times has published a special report about South Moravia, focused on the city of Brno, the Czech Republic, which is one of Central Europe’s fastest-growing regions.
South Moravia Expands as Information Hot Spot
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