Environmental Partnership Foundation 2018 Annual Report by Nadace Partnerství

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Czech Environmental Partnership Foundation title

Annual Report 2018

00 In a few years’ time, when we think back to the nation’s 2018 anniversary, our first thoughts will take us back to November 17th and to the foot of Říp Mountain. That day we shared a deep sense of satisfaction from the good work carried out by our foundation and the several hundred other participants in planting the trees to create the Alley of Freedom. We dedicated the whole year to bringing people together from all over the country and abroad to find and plant the Trees of Liberty. We talked to hundreds of different people and everyone was happy to contribute to what I believe was a marvelous celebration of the hundred-year anniversary of the foundation of democracy in Czechoslovakia. The actual experience of planting these symbols of democracy and freedom is impossible to properly communicate, despite the attempt made in the very positive media coverage or in the simple storytelling of actual participants. Miroslav Kundrata Director of Environmental Partnership

Jiří francek Chairman of the Management Board, Environmental Partnership

Originally, the Alley of Freedom under Říp was not even included in our plan, but due to the enthusiasm of colleagues, company partners and locals from the Mnetěš municipality and employees of the company Arboeko, we managed to make the happening work — all in a very short time. On the day we celebrated our newly gained democracy, we met people under the legendary mountain with whom we were connected through similar values and an urge and will to plant a lime memorial to mark the anniversary. Thanks to these people, not far from the legendary mountain is now growing the morethan-a-kilometer long lime tree alley. When walking along it, try to remember all the good and bad times our country has had to face throughout this hundred years. The past is gone, the future awaits. Today we are facing the challenges brought by climate change and our task is to prepare the Czech countryside and its rural communities for another hundred years. We, too, want to participate in this task.

part 00

Introduction

part 01

Climate change: a challenge for the future

01.01 Climate change in numbers

01.02 Board of Directors and the

Supervisory Board 01.03 Leadership of the Foundation 01.04 Our people 01.05 Selection of supported projects

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part 02

2018 — a year to honour liberty

02.01 Adapterra

02.02 A healthy and beautiful landscape

02.03 Through the countryside — on foot

or by bicycle

02.04 Trees of Liberty 1918—2018

02.05 Open Gardens

02.06 Safe cities for people

02.07 The Josef Vavroušek Award

02.08 mff ekofilm 2018

part 03

It would not be possible without you

03.01 Said about us

03.02 How can you support us?

03.03 Important donors and partners

part 04

Financial report

04.01 List of supported organisations

04.02 Overview of awarded grants

04.03 Information on the Foundation’s

management

organization

Czech Environmental Partnership Foundation title

Annual Report 2018

Climate change: a challenge for the future 1 062 l

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The Open Gardens rainwater runoff period

January — December 2018

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01 The climate change conference in the Polish city of Katowice lasted two whole weeks. Delegates from close to two hundred nations from all around the world participated in the conference in December. What did they agree on? Simply put, they agreed on rules that should direct the temperature rise towards 1.5 degrees compared to pre-industrial temperatures. We have had to deal with the fact that average temperatures are rising. According to the World Wide Fund for Nature, a one and a half degree increase means, for instance, ocean water levels will rise by 48 centimeters, and 6 percent of world insects, 8 percent of vegetation and 4 percent of vertebrates will be affected. The average ocean water level has risen by nineteen centimeters in the last hundred years. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the period since 1983 was most probably the warmest in the last fourteen hundred years. So what should we humans do? Not only do we have to find a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but also to find a way to adapt to these changes. Buildings with low energy consumption, economical transport, green roofs, facades, water collecting surfaces, trees, and a green urban environment — these are the tools we can use to prepare our cities and municipalities for the changes that are inevitably coming.

Climate change in numbers

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+ 12 summer days per year in the last 20 years 7

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More than 80 percent of natural disasters are connected to climate change 4

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+ 6 tropical days per year in the last 20 years 3

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140 % production of CO2 compared to the pre-industrial era 6

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February 2017 was one of the worst in terms of the water table; the 7th week was one of the driest periods of the year 5

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+ 1 °C average temperature compared to 1880 2

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3 × faster melting of Antarctic compared to 2018 1

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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction. United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Geneva, Switzerland. www.unisdr.org/we/inform/publications/3301

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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Board of Directors and the Supervisory Board

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We always search for strong personalities to sit on our management and supervisory boards — professionals in their respective fields. They watch our activities from above and are capable of giving valuable advice and moving us forward. They include artists, politicians, entrepreneurs, journalists and ecologists. statutory body

Eva Vacíková

Board of Directors

senior business advisor a coach

Kateřina Kočí Jiří Francek

Chairwoman, Actaea — nature and landscape preservation association

Chair of the Board of Directors, Executive Director of NaturaServis, s. r. o.

Pavel Dočekal

statutory body

Vice Chair of the Board of Directors, Financial Manager, IBM Global Services Delivery Center, Czech Republic, s. r. o.

Supervisory board

Petr Hlobil

Jiří Hartmann

Director of International Activities, CEE Bankwatch Network

Chair of the Supervisory Board, Lawyer

Vladimír Kořen

Jaroslav Kratochvíl

Television presenter and Mayor of Říčany

Economic Assistant, NCO NZO

Ladislav Miko

Lucie Wadurová

Head of EC Representation to Slovakia, European Commission

Senior Tax Manager, Deloitte

Čestmír Klos Environmental journalist

Andreas Beckmann Director of the WWF Danube–Carpathian Programme in Vienna

Zdeněk Hotař Development Manager

Jan Dungel Graphic Designer, Illustrator

Jitka Klinkerová Lecturer and Project Manager

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Supervisory board 9

Leadership of the Foundation

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Our foundation is built on a powerful mission and strong values. The people moving it forward have always had a clear vision and idea of Environmental Partnership’s role in the Czech Republic. This task applies not only to management, but to all the key persons inside the organisation.

Miroslav Kundrata

Markéta Janíčková

Director

Financial Director

Petr Kazda

Martin Gillár

Commercial Director, Director of Partnership, community interest society

Communications Director

Our people

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For dozens of employees of the Foundation, their work is also a mission. They care about where they live. With their daily work, they make a significant contribution to making the Partnership Foundation a stable and credible institution.

Hana Alexová, Financial Assistant (maternity leave)

Radim Cenek, Grant Manager

Martin Ander, Climate Change Adaptation Expert, LIFE Tree Check project

Ivana Cenková, IT

Dominika Bäuchelová, Event Manager Dominika Belovičová, Financial Manager František Brückner, Grant Manager Ivana Bruchterová, Grant Manager Monika Cabicarová, Sales Manager (until December 2018)

Emilie Dosoudilová, Children´s Group Teacher Martin Fiala, Moravian Wine Trails Manager Juraj Flamik, Head of the Greenways Team Miroslava Floriánová, Project Manager Veronika Floumová, Head Gardener (since July 2018) Veronika Golianová, Graphic Design 11

Juraj Háder, Event Manager (since January 2019) Josef Jarý, Brussels Representative (since September 2018)

Alice Pachtová, Head of Logistics

Martina Joachim, PR Manager (since April 2018)

Jitka Pátková, Financial Manager

Luboš Kala, Cyclist and Pedestrians Monitoring Manager

Radek Patrný, Elbe Trail and Greenways Projects Coordinator

Eva Kloudová, Assistent and Receptionist

Helena Peřinová, Project Manager and Lecturer

Veronika Kmetíková, Payroll Clerk (maternity leave)

Anna Petříková, Public Relations and Marketing Manager

David Kopecký, Public Relations Manager (since February 2018) Michala Kovačičová, PR and Communication Markéta Kozlová, Financial Manager Ján Krajčovič, Handymen (until August 2018) Andrea Krůpová, Tree of the Year Contest Manager Helena Křečková, Receptionist (since January 2019) Tereza Kučerová, Head of the Open Gardens Team (until February 2018) Barbora Kunová, Project Manager (maternity leave) Eva Kvapilová, Head of the Open Gardens Team (since March 2018) Magdalena Maceková, Climate Change Urban Adaptation Expert (since February 2019) Veronika Mikulová, Financial Manager

Zdeňka Prokopová, Public Relations Manager (maternity leave) Vlastimil Rieger, Green Building Consultant Adéla Sojková, Public Relations (since February 2019) Zuzana Stáňová, Receptionist Simona Surmařová, Project Manager Tomáš Šácha, IT Zuzana Šeptunová, Head of Trees and Water team Gabriela Ševčíková, Children´s Group Teacher Michal Šindelář, Head of Sustainable Mobility Team Simona Škarabelová, Fundraising Manager Petr Šmíd, Project Manager (until September 2018) Dita Tesařová, LIFE Tree Check project manager

Magdaléna Milostná, Public Relations Manager (since April 2018)

Václav Vacík, Facility Manager (since August 2018)

Věra Miňovská, Cyclists Welcome Regional Coordinator

Markéta Venyšová, Event Manager

Zuzana Vašíčková, HR (since January 2019)

Daniel Mourek, Elbe Trail and International Project Coordinator

Michal Veselý, Strategic Projects Consultant

Adéla Mráčková, Public Relations Manager (maternity leave)

Petra Weberová, Financial Assistent

Kamila Vlčková, Public Relations Manager

Vojtěch Mrlík, Animal Care (until October 2018)

Ilona Zelinková, Open Gardens Keeper Assistant (until November 2018)

Miroslava Murguová, Project Manager (until May 2018)

Hana Zuchnická, Garden Architect and Lecturer

Jakub Nehera, Gardener (until March 2018) Ondřej Nejedlý, Cyclist and Pedestrians Monitoring Hana Novotná, Children´s Group Teacher Mirek Novotný, Handyman of the Open Gardens

Lucie Olišarová, Project Assistant (since September 2018)

Selection of supported projects

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Tree Alley of Freedom

KLEN begins to grow

Tree of Liberty in every school

project

Planting trees — Jilešovská

Fruity Želetice

The Garden of Agnes of Bohemia

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School garden on the wheels

Garden among blocks of flats

Move it!

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Classroom in nature of Hliníky

Natural garden by the river

Sensual garden

2018 — a year to honour liberty 13 kWh

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The Open Gardens solar thermal production period

January — December 2018

02 Last year we celebrated 100 years since the foundation of Czechoslovakia. Our foundation contributed to the anniversary in a significant way — the Trees of Liberty campaign was historically the most successful ever campaign of Environmental Partnership. Thanks to participation by dozens of partners, celebrities, thousands of volunteers, friends and family members, we were able to create a unique Trees of Liberty database, find almost four and a half thousand trees planted by our ancestors to celebrate freedom, and to plant over two and a half thousand new Trees of Liberty. It was a powerful and dignified celebration of democracy — not only in our homeland, but abroad as well. And it is our responsibility to use the harvested energy for yet another formidable task — to prepare the countryside and communities for a future affected by climate change.

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To this end, throughout the whole of 2018 we were preparing a program focused on adapting to climate change. Beginning in 2019, we want to introduce to the public the best examples of adaptation solutions as they emerge from the Adapterra Awards competition. In our Open Gardens we continue the ongoing measurement of the efficiency of green roofs and trees used for water collection and city cooling; we continue monitoring the benefits and returns on smart technologies. This was another reason for creating Adapterra — preparing the land for new challenges, for the new climate. What else happened in 2018? We started certifying companies who support their employees commuting to work by bicycle as Cycle-Friendly Employers and handed over the very first certificate; we welcomed 27 thousand visitors to the Open Gardens; we organised two festivals of Open Wine Cellars and four events on wine trails; we picked two laureates for the Josef Vavroušek Award for 2018, and helped prepare the next EKOFILM international film festival.

Adapterra

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We live in an age when the impacts of climate change can be seen with our own eyes. We suffer from long droughts and torrential rainfall. Cities, rivers and agricultural land are drying out, and ever more precious water drains away from our cities and countryside. Our task is to help the Czech landscape and cities prepare for changes that are — whether like it or not — coming. We are trying to test different types of adaptation and mitigating solutions in our Open Garden area. This was yet another reason Environmental Partnership set up Adapterra in 2018. So, what is going on in our “land of adaptation”?

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LIFE TreeCheck We are the main coordinator of a unique international project called LIFE Tree Check. It is focused on solving the problems of Central European cities acting as thermal islands. We want to change the investment policy of municipalities so that all street reconstruction will lead to more vegetation, every suitable new roof or facade will be greener, and parking lots and other paved surfaces will be able to absorb and retain water. As part of our project, we are developing an app, for instance, able to determine from a simple picture what kind of vegetation it “sees”, how much carbon dioxide it is able to absorb and what cooling effect it provides. www.lifetreecheck.eu photo

Thermal islands can be prevented by green facades, like this one created by the company Liko-S from Slavkov

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project

Adapterra Awards

For Water project

description

We are looking for the most interesting implemented projects helping our landscape adapt to climate change. In cooperation with experts from the company Integra, we launched the first year of a new competition that succeeds the earlier Adaptation Solution of the Year competition. Municipalities, companies and other organisations can sign up their projects during the spring of 2019. Judges will then pick the best twenty-five projects. From this group will be picked the winners of four categories, followed up by a large-scale adaptation conference in the autumn.

To mark World Water Day, together with NestlĂŠ we honoured the young authors of the best projects in the 2018 For Water competition, focused on responsible water management. The winner, Martin Skala, developed a way to avoid fluctuation in the amounts of arsenic in the drinking water of two municipalities. This was the sixth year of the competition, and it was realised as a part of a project supported by the State Environmental Fund of the Czech Republic. Besides the competition itself, we also therefore had an opportunity to publish tips on green construction and update our booklet about the use of technology in the Open Garden in Brno.

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The Open Gardens won the very first Adaptation Solutions of the Year competition, now succeeded by Adapterra Awards

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The For Water competition searches for young, talented people with ideas on water conservation 17

A healthy and beautiful landscape A landscape full of trees is inherently a part of our history and our lives. Trees purify the air, cool their surroundings, and offer shade. And it is our task to provide them with the care they deserve. Therefore, we are helping active people plant and take care of trees. We distribute grants and organise the Tree of the Year poll — we even run for trees. Are you with us?

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Tree of the Year description

We are looking for trees with the best story! This is the motto of our state-wide poll called Tree of the Year. 2018 was the seventeenth year of this competition and it was a unique one, because we decided to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of Czechoslovakia by searching for the Tree of the Year only among Trees of Liberty. Fifty-six hundred-year-old symbols of democracy took part in this competition, among which — with over 26 thousand votes — the Zádvorská lepa won the most acclaim. It also represents the Czech Republic in the European round in 2019. www.stromroku.cz photo

The winner, Zádvorská lepa, was supported by the whole town of Velké Opatovice

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We provide grants

We take care of trees

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Through different grants, we were able to donate 3.5 million CZK in 2018. 2.4 million crowns went towards planting trees and their subsequent care. 37,980 volunteers participated in the planting last year, together planting 1886 trees and bushes in 315 places. Dotted around the country, 18 new green oases began their lives, soaking up 1.4 million CZK of our grant money. There were 970 runners who took part in sponsored RunCzech series. Together they raised over 150 thousand CZK for trees.

It is important to plant trees. However, in our foundation we know that the art of caring for them is equally important. For that very reason we organise seminars at which, together with certified arborists, we teach how to properly cut and prune trees, why dendrological research of aging trees is so important, and the social value of old trees. In 2018, over hundred participants took part in our seminars.

www.zeleneoazy.cz

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Seminars on trees were arranged in co-operation with professionals from the Arborists academy

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Pupils at the elementary school in Pecka (JiÄ?Ăn District) designed their school garden themselves

Through the countryside How best to appreciate the beauty of the Czech countryside with due respect and consideration? Cycling or walking! We have been helping improve cycling trails for over twenty years now. These days, the Prague-Vienna Greenway, the Elbe Trail or Moravian Wine Trails are among the pillars of Czech tourism. Additionally, the Open Wine Cellars festival has helped boost interest in Moravia as the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wine region. This year, too, we invested a lot of energy in these projects. Our efforts are rewarded by thousands of happy visitors following our trails and enjoying the events. 20

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Fixing the signs on the Moravian wine trails description

The network of Moravian Wine Trails was brought to life almost twenty years ago. All twelve hundred kilometers annually serve thousands of wine and cycling lovers. Both for them and for locals in the wine-making municipalities, we initiated the fixing and repair of trail signs and markings. In cooperation with municipalities and with the support of the South Moravian Region, in 2018 we finished the fourth stage of the renovation, meaning more than two hundred kilometers of Moravian wine trails are as good as new. www.vinarske.stezky.cz photo

For lovers of cycling and south Moravia, we organise cycling trips throughout the wine region

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Expanding crossborder tourism

Cyclists welcome even in the Green Belt

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Since 2017, we have been working on the concept of expanding cross-border cycling along the Czech-Polish border. We want to unify methodologies for long-distance and terrain cycling as well as in-line skating. We are focused on future trail solutions, developing unified approaches and linking together long-distance cycling trails. In 2018, for example, we were able to help organise a conference of almost thirty experts. They debated a proposed long-distance trail along the Polish-Czech border.

Our foundation is the official coordinator of the Czech segments of the international network of EuroVelo cycle routes. This is yet another reason why we care about providing better services to cyclists along these routes. Their quality is guaranteed by the Cyclists Welcome certification. As part of the project Culture and Nature in the Green Belt, in 2018 we had a chance — thanks to support from the Interreg Europe programme — to arrange a seminar for service providers at which they were introduced to the advantages conferred by the certificate.

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Part of the meeting involved a cycle trip with a preview of existing and in-construction sections of the planned long-distance cycle trail

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At the seminar we introduced service providers to the advantages of Cyclists Welcome certification

Trees of Liberty 1918—2018 One hundred years since the foundation of Czechoslovakia. One hundred years since the foundation of Czechoslovak democracy. One hundred years during which we lived through times both better and worse. If we want to live in a democratic and self-confident country in the future, it is necessary to remember historical moments that can teach us some important lessons. Our foundation decided to join in the celebration through a symbol of democracy and nature — the tree. At important historical moments of our country, our ancestors planted limes and other types of tree as symbolic silent witnesses. Though silent, they talk to us through the destinies of the people who planted or took care of them. During our year-long campaign, we rediscovered almost four and a half thousand Trees of Liberty, treated almost thirty of them, and planted over two and a half thousand new Trees of Liberty. All thanks to enthusiastic people, celebrities, partners, colleagues, and friends — those who actually care about the future of our country.

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100 Trees of Liberty under Říp Mountain description

Thanks to the effort of hundreds of people, since the 17th of November 2018, a one-hundredlime-tree alley has marked the approach to Říp Mountain. On a strip of land over a kilometer long, close to the nearby village of Mnetěš, an alley of trees was planted by Scouts, legionaries, elementary school pupils and locals from the surrounding communities, ministry employees, patrons and representatives of our partners. With tools in hand they helped us create this alley which, from now on, will remind anyone who walks the path up to the national mystic mountain of the hundred-year anniversary of the very foundation of our democracy. www.stromysvobody.cz/alejpodripem photo

Scouts also have their Tree of Liberty 22

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patron of the campaign

patrons of the campaign

Aneta Langerová

Dan Bárta

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Carlo Capalbo

Every tree is a witness of its age, of everything that is and has been happening around it for many years. When trees connect together, they form a memory, be it in a family garden, village, city, nation or the whole world. I believe that the newly planted tree will be surrounded by people living in a free and open-minded society. I wish we could all develop freely in anything that makes us happy, and that trees could guide us throughout our lives as devoted friends.

Stephen B. King

Vojtěch Dyk

Vladimír Kořen Gábina a Petr Koukalovi Marta Kubišová Aneta Langerová Hana Librová Peter Lipa Daniel Orálek Miroslav Paleček John Palka Martin Rajniš

what we have achieved

Petr Sís

4,449 Trees of Liberty found 28 Trees of Liberty treated 2,677 Trees of Liberty planted

Spirituál kvintet

www.stromysvobody.cz

Zrní Holden

Marek Orko Vácha Tatiana Vilhelmová

Open Gardens The Open Gardens environmental centre is based in the very heart of Brno, below Špilberk Castle. The garden is an ideal spot for taking a rest, studying or having fun. Here we have built an educational garden containing the four elements, and the former Borromeo monastery garden. Thanks to passive buildings, smart technology, use of renewable resources and clever adaptive solutions, this site is a unique, visionary example of what a carbonneutral operation looks like. Thanks to our dedication to live by the principles of our mission, we have gained rare operational experience by running this ecological site. Now we can share this experience. 24

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We are here for the public description

We love to share what we are good at. We organise public educational workshops (pruning fruit trees, herb workshops, beekeeping courses) and thematic festivities for kids and adults alike. The most popular is the Pumpkin Festival, with more than 1,500 visitors every year. We operate as the base for the international film festival with a natural environment in Europe theme — EKOFILM; lately, we have also lent our premises to the international human rights documentary film festival, One World. www.otevrenazahrada.cz photo

The best pumpkin competition is a highly appreciated activity for kids during the Pumpkin Festival

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project

Educational events for schools

Green roofs

description

Almost two and a half thousand student visitors visited our garden in 2018. We organise many different educational events for them every year. These explain how the natural world works or how best to manage resources whilst looking after the environment. One of these events this year was a special programme called Trees and Climate Change. The project was dreamt up in cooperation with Mendel University and drew upon unique data obtained from operating the garden. These were obtained owing to the unique system of measurement that has been in progress in the garden since 2015. www.otevrenazahrada.cz/Pro-skoly

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With a green roof we give a built-up area back to nature. The soil on the roof works as thermal insulation and waterproofing: in the summer preventing buildings from overheating while perfectly retaining rainwater all year round. Green roofs are our passion. Proof lies in the 2nd place awarded to us in the Public Green Roof category in 2016, and 2nd place in the Green Roof on a Detached Family Home category in 2018. www.otevrenazahrada.cz/energie photo

We try out new things — one of them is the green roof on the outdoor kitchen located in the garden

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We teach students the positive effects green vegetation have on the city and countryside 25

Safe cities for people We want to help cities be more pleasant places to live. To provide better safety and sustainable ways of transport, to find ways to support cyclists, pedestrians and car-sharing. Safe transportation significantly affects the quality of life in cities. Therefore, we support environmentally friendly and, at the same time, safe mobility. We organise educational campaigns, develop apps, organise competitions, negotiate with civil servants and urbanists — all of this to create cities for people.

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Cycle-Friendly Employers description

Every day, most of us have to make at least two essential journeys — to and from work. Unfortunately, a big number of us reach for the car keys instead of a bike helmet. And that is exactly the reason why the streets of Czech cities are bursting at the seams. Who can change it? Employers can. If employees had the option to shower, were given a safe space for their bikes and perhaps other benefits, they could be motivated to cycle to work. Employers providing all of these benefits fully deserve our CycleFriendly Employer certificate. www.cyklozamestnavatel.cz photo

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project

Bike to Work

MoveCit

description

In the city of Brno and around the rest of the country, the 8th year of the Bike to Work campaign attracted record numbers of participants. In May, two and a half thousand cyclists rode through the streets of the Moravian metropolis to work. Could you imagine a better or more environmentally friendly way to commute to work? In April, we organised for all participants the Great Spring Superhero Ride, a special T-shirt offer and a closing ceremony in the Open Garden.

Through the educational activities of the international MoveCit project, we aimed to redirect the city of Litoměřice towards a more sustainable way of transport. In 2018, we carried out a second survey to discover whether our efforts had been successful. Compared to 2017, the number of employees commuting to work on their own by car decreased by five percent, the number of those opting for shared vehicles similarly increased by five percent. A small step for humankind, but hopefully a big one for Litoměřice.

www.dopracenakole.cz

www.interreg-central.eu/Content.Node/ MOVECIT.html

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Cyclist-superheroes and superheroines arrived at the ceremony to pick up their prizes

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Employees from a range of Litoměřice public institutions familiarise themselves with a carpooling app, allowing them to find a partner for car-sharing 27

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The Josef Vavroušek Award Josef Vavroušek was an exceptional figure whose breadth of interests far exceeded the boundaries of environmentalism. His ideas are alive today and continue to inspire us. This is only one of the reasons why we honour his memory with this annual award. In 2018, the twenty-second award ceremony was held, and it was the first time Vladimír Kořen chaired the commission. The award for lifelong contribution went to Ludvík Kunc and the award for achievement of the year was won by Robin Böhnish. 28

josef vavroušek lifelong contribution award

Ludvík Kunc description

The spiritual father of wolf and lynx patrols, Ludvík Kunc has participated in returning dozens of lynx to the wild. He has devoted his artistic life to these creatures, and his paintings are proof of his love for wildlife.

josef vavroušek achievement of the year award

Robin Böhnisch description

Robin Böhnish crowned his fourteen-year long political career with two important environmental laws. He helped strengthen the legislation protecting our national parks and proposed and carried through an important law outlawing fur farms in the Czech Republic.

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MFF EKOFILM 2018 The world’s oldest film festival focused on environmental topics once again confirmed its increasing popularity. With our help, it was possible to attract more than five and a half thousand friends of nature to Brno’s cinema Scala and other festival venues. During three days in October, we presented in competition twenty-five movies from across the world, and introduced festival goers to Czech and foreign experts, photographers of nature and their work; we also arranged a programme for schools.

date and place

October 10 — 13, 2018, Brno number of visitors

5,608 visitors

number of movies in the competition

number of members of the international jury

6 winning films of the mff ekofilm 2018 film festival

Minister of the Environment’s award: Thank You for the Rain The Festival President’s Award: Ark of Lights and Shadows Beauty of Nature: Kamchatka Bears. Life Begins Central-European films: White Wolves, Ghosts of the Arctic Short films: Every Drop Counts… www.ekofilm.cz

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Water consumption in the C Building of the Open Gardens period

January — December 2018

03 Helping dozens of organisations is no easy task. It requires many enlightened minds occupying the right positions in our partner companies who both help and support our endeavours. Therefore huge thanks go to the following companies — Nestlé, Makro, Českomoravský cement, TetraPak, ELO, MOL Česká republika, NanoEnergies, Lesy ČR, MORAVIA, IVT, Inisoft, Inviros, C&A, GLS, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Morosystems, runners from the RunCzech series, volunteers at the IBM Delivery Centre Brno, Asekol, Czech Academy of Science, EKO-KOM, SAKO, SEDUM TOP, Badger Meter, RETEX and to many others who are the engine of innovation leading to a better environment. We are also very grateful for public resources — our projects are supported by the European Union, US Embassy, Ministry of the Environment, State Environmental Fund of the Czech Republic, Ministry of Regional Development, the city of Brno and the South Moravian Region.

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Every one of them cares for the environment, which is why they support our activities. It is a real pleasure to cooperate with our partners.

Said about us

03.01

Richard Austen CEO, MOL Česká republika

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This was the fourth year of cooperation with Environmental Partnership on a unique, grant-funded program called Green Oases. As usual, the results were fantastic. Altogether, 86 organisations applied for the grant and this year 1.4 million Czech crowns were distributed to the selected projects. As a result, another nineteen Green Oases will be created. These will help bring back water to cities and villages. We would like to thank our colleagues from Environmental Partnership for their professional cooperation.

Khatuna Kazarashvili Project Manager of C&A Foundation

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Environmental Partnership was chosen as one of 45 charitable organisations that the C&A company, through its C&A Foundation, supported during its worldwide campaign for employee engagement — Inspiring World 2019. We are delighted to be connected with this charity in the Czech Republic and, in this way, to become a part of the Tree of Liberty project.

David Mareček Inisoft

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For more than 15 years we have supported the Josef Vavroušek Award, organised by Environmental Partnership. We do it because we are convinced that it’s necessary to support and promote those who show by personal example how we all can live and work in consideration of our surroundings, so we might live happily on our planet Earth for many years to come.

How can you support us?

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Do you find our activities sympathetic? Do you want to help us improve the environment? Do you want to take concrete steps to fight climate change? Do you want to take part in our successful projects and/or support the projects of other organisations? You can contribute in many ways, choose the one you like the best.

for companies

for individuals

Become a partner of one or more of our projects!

You can make a donation to some of our long standing collections!

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At the national level you could get involved in our autumn planting grants, Tree of the Year, Josef Vavroušek Award or the Adapterra Awards; at the multinational level, you might want your company’s name connected with the European Tree of the Year project, or with the EKOFILM film festival; locally, you could become a sponsor of the Open Garden or the Moravian Wine Trails. If you have a brand new idea for a grant-funded programme coherent with our own activities, it would be our pleasure to implement it for you. You would be the main partner and we would take care of the whole administration — because that is where our professional strengths come to the fore.

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Any amount is gratefully received and will help us in our work. For instance, you could support the Open Garden, the autumn planting grants or the Tree of the Year poll. Another way to help is to leave a legacy and so continue doing the good deeds that you were doing your whole life.

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Simona Škarabelová E-mail: simona.skarabelova@nap.cz T +420 777 556 857 www.nadacepartnerstvi.cz/darujte

Important Donors and Partners

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We would like to thank all the individual donors, namely Kateřina Janků, Radek Urban, Tomáš Laštovka, Helena Vagnerová, Ivo Schött, Jiří Francek, Mr. and Mrs. Halík, Mr. and Mrs. Nevrklý, arborists for their free services and other donors, whose support we highly appreciate. 35

Financial report

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The Open Gardens electricity production period

January — December 2018

04 There is no easy life in the world today for non-profit organisations. And yet, their work is absolutely irreplaceable. Our goal is to pave the way for such groups to create a good environment and set up conditions in which they can work. And this all depends on our financial situation. We have chosen the path of financial independence and sustainability. Hence, we cooperate with different commercial companies and provide them with our professional services, i.e. in the field of transport planning and green construction, or by organising public wine events that help us develop environmentally friendly tourism projects. A wide spectrum of grant-funding options and our own activities help us keep our feet firmly on the ground. We are very proud of our long-term financially sound footing and our forward thinking. This is yet another reason why, for more than a quarter of a century, we have been able to help more than three and a half thousand projects.

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List of supported organisations

1st Kindergarten of Karlovy Vary, Komenského street 7, Benediktus registered association, Czech Union of Beekeepers, registered association, grass root organisation Horní Cerekev, Bumblebee — The Society of Friends of Nature, Dominik Tomáš Petr, Iris — Leisure Center Břeclav, charitable trust, Hlízov unique society, Friends of the Earth Czech Republic, HO Satalice registered association, Chaloupky PBO, school facilities for leisure and further education, Ing. Zbyněk Smetana, Jakub Sochor, Jaroslav Špác, KLEN, registered association, Koinonia Giovanni Battista — Koinonia Jan Křtitel, Beautiful neighborhooding, registered association, Ludvík Kunc, Lužňáci, registered association, Martin Skala, Kindergarten and Primary school Klíček, Kindergartens of Kopřivnice, charitable trust, City of Nový Jičín, City of Strakonice, City of Uničov, District 10 of Prague, MOMENT Czech Republic, PBO, Municipality of Blatnička, Municipality of Číchov, Municipality of Čilá, Municipality of Dasnice, Municipality of Háj in Silesia, Municipality of Hodslavice, Municipality of Josefov, Municipality of Kadov, Municipality of Kuklík, Municipality of Kvasice, Municipality of Mnetěš, Municipality of Mokrá — Horákov, Municipality of Oudoleň, Municipality of Pavlice, Municipality of Pěčín, Municipality of Pláně, Municipality of Přepychy, Municipalityof Seninka, Municipality of Snovídky, Municipality of Trstěnice, Municipality of Tuklaty, Municipality of Vilémovice, Municipality of Želetice, Beautifying Association Tvrdonice, Beautifying Association in Lezník, Pravý Hradec, registered association, Paradise of consciousness — forest camp 333, registered association, RHYME registered association, Robin Böhnisch, Planting trees, registered institute, 38

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Landscape Association, Neighborhood Association Merboltice, Association for the building Okružní street 1110, Hradec Králové, Boleboř Society, Orasín, Svahová, Podprůhon Society, The Krkonoše Mountains National Park, Statutory city of Ústí nad Labem, Tyrš Primary school, Brno, Kuldova street 38, Vimperk lives!, registered association, Primary school and the Children and Youth Centre Krasohled Zábřeh, Primary school and Kindergarten, Pecka, Primary school Konstantinovy Lázně, district of Tachov, charitable trust, Primary schoool Mánesova Otrokovice, charitable trust, Primary school Opava, Šrámkova street 4, charitable trust, Czech Union for Nature Conservation Local Chapter Environmental service organization, Czech Union for Nature Conservation Local Chapter Vlašim, Earthworm on the terrace

Overview of awarded grants

CZK 3,359,968 Total grants awarded

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programme

Green Oases grant programme CZK 1,626,000

20 projects

programme

Planting trees and the For Water competition CZK 1,167,000

49 projects

programme

Basic grant programme CZK 487,000

6 projects

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The Josef VavrouĹĄek Award CZK 80,000

2 projects

Information on the Foundationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s management

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Structure of revenues and costs (in CZK thousands) Assets

As of 1. 1. 2018

As of 31. 12. 2018

Long term assets Intangible assets

2,202

2,329

Tangible assets

171,171

171,670

Financial assets

8,268

2,600

Long term assets adjustment Total long term assets

-25,756

-28,511

155,885

148,088

Short term assets Supplies

324

297

Claims

2,221

3,115

Financial assets (bank, treasury)

17,312

25,665

Other short terms assets

4,365

5,503

Total short term assets

24,222

34,580

180,107

182,668

163,227

162,504

13,609

12,312

Estimation differences of property overestimation

211

198

Net income

553

711

177,600

175,725

Short term liabilities

1,451

2,056

Other liabilities (future incomes, expenses of the legal entity, exchange rate differences)

1,056

4,887

Total foreign resources

2,507

6,943

180,107

182,668

Total assets liabilities Own resources Estate (foundation + other) Funds of contributions for activities of the organization

Total own resources Foreign resources

Total liabilities 40

Economic profit in 2018 (in CZK thousands) Programme costs Material costs

2,398

Services

6,656

Personal costs

11,594

Other costs deductibles thereof Overhead costs

3,198 2,766 5,211

Total costs

29,057

Sales of products, goods and services

15,133

Donations

2,220

Subsidies

10,044

Other income funds coverage thereof financial income thereof Total income Economic result

2,371 2,033 192 29,768 711

Foundation contributions Funds received for foundation contributions

3,861

Foundation contributions

3,360

Nadace Partnerství Czech Environmental Partnership Foundation contact

Údolní 33, 602 00 Brno T +420 515 903 111 E–mail: partnerstvi@nap.cz www.nadacepartnerstvi.cz editor

Martin Gillár photo

Photo archives of Environmental Partnership and the ekofilm festival, Lenka Mitrenga, Marek Olbrzymek, Ivana Hrubešová, Pavel Samuel and Jakub Kriš, Photo archives of liko-s, Olga Špátová graphic design

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