Czech Republic

The Competence Platform for Resource Efficiency in Central Europe offers fast access to information on how to improve resource efficiency at company level, including publications, good practices and related events.

This simple tool calculates water and financial savings that can be achieved by installing waterless urinals in an organisation. The calcluation is made based on answering three simple questions: How many people use the urinal? How many times a day does each person use it? How many days per week is...

The goal of Innovation Vouchers Programme is to support communication, and sharing knowledge and know-how between the business and research spheres, which leads to intensification of own innovation activities of SMEs. They can use innovation vouchers to purchase advisory, expert and innovation...

CYRKL is an on-line platform – secondary raw materials exchange – that aims to help recover materials, which have already fulfilled their primary function, but are still utilizable and suitable for further processing. The exchange enables companies and municipalities to offer or demand secondary...

The Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade offers an annual Turning Waste into Resources award to inspiring projects that search for a novel use of secondary raw materials with the aim of saving resources and the environment. The award is open to manufacturing and construction companies, schools as...

Recycle Buildings! is a web portal providing information about recycling and the use of secondary materials in construction. It is made up of two main sections: Catalogue of secondary raw materials – arising from the recycling of waste materials during construction, demolition or reconstruction of a...

The Catalogue of Saving Measures is a web-based overview of building-related energy-saving measures in the form of a publicly accessible database created by the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Association of Energy Specialists. It is intended for users who prepare and implement energy-saving...

The Expansion Programme offers Czech small and medium-sized enterprises outside of Prague interest-free investment loans up to 45 % of eligible costs, ranging from CZK 1 to 45 million. They can be used to purchase machines, equipment and technology, including ones for increasing resource efficiency...

The Energy Savings programme offers SMEs and large businesses interest-free loans to finance their energy-saving projects anywhere in the Czech Republic outside of the capital city of Prague. The projects have to bring at least 10 % energy savings, and can include building insulation, changing...

This tool aims to make it easier for company managers to include corporate social responsibility (CSR) in strategic planning. CSR is monitored in five areas: economic, employment, environmental, social and organisational management. The questionnaire from which the CSR report is generated comprises...

The aim of the guide is to provide SMEs with an orientation in approaches to maximize positive and reduce the negative impacts of business - i.e. to achieve eco-efficiency. The guide provides simple procedures to identify where the company has a potential for the greatest savings and other...

Users of this calculator can determine the percentage of window surface shading and the length of shade from an awning or balcony situated above the window. The calculation can be performed for any day of the year taking into account position of the sun, and it applies to the orientation of the...