Partnering offer
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(*) Description of the expertise offered/requested (up to 1000 characters)
This is joint offer on behalf of the provisional Slovak consortium for a specific topic, which may be
contacted as a whole, or by its individual members.
Offered:
Institute of Geography SAS
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research capacities based on processing of economic, social and environmental spatial data within
the context of various strategies;
geographic information system development and analyses;
measurement and evaluation of fragmentation, dynamics changes in land cover;
identification and evaluation of landscape changes through remote mapping.
Plant Production Research Center Piešťany
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The Center has the expertise to carry out research in the following fields:
sustainable production of biomass for energy purposes;
improvement and optimization of energy crop production systems and technologies,
impact of climate change on the stability of crop production,
land use and land management in mountain and upland regions,
environmentally sustainable systems of breeding of animals especially ruminants,
making and utilisation of grass energy pellets,
utilisation of digestate from biogas plants,
monitoring of the soil, geographical, climatic, economic and ecological characteristics of the sites
in different parts and regions of the Slovak Republic and consultancy in the use of land for
growing of energy.
Institute of Landscape Ecology SAS
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biodiversity and production ecology of forest, bioenergy, grassland and mountain ecosystems,
mainly in stress conditions caused by pollution, climatic changes and tourism
ecological and biodiversity problems of agricultural landscape, territorial system of ecological
stability, preservation of biodiversity and geoecodiversity
influence of anthropogenous factors on landscape biodiversity, ecological optimization and
landscape utilization and methodology of ecological carrying capacity
management of protected areas endangered by negative interference.
Institute of Landscape Ecology has elaborated typisation of the Slovak landscape, with the
complex database about properties of the individual landscape types of the Slovakia
its methodology “LANDEP” is recommended as one of the methodologies for integrated
protection of the natural resources in the AGENDA 21 from Rio Summit.
AEN
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distribution of energy based on renewable energy sources (RES)
investments into RES and related technologies
pricing and delivery models
cooperation with local self-governments and regions
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Keywords describing the expertise offered/requested (up to 10 words)
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Biomass, biomass deliveries, sustainable deliveries, Slovakia, regional schemes
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(*) Relevant topic in work programme
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Energy call – Part 1 / ENERGY.2013.3.7.1: Developing regional and pan-European schemes for
the sustainable delivery of non-food biomass feedstock in a pan-European integrated market
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Further remarks
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This provisional consortium is capable to cover whole Slovakian territory within the frame and
context of the above topic for sustainable biomass deliveries.
There is also a regional self-government on the level of NUTS2 prepared to join consortium once
it will proceed into project preparation stage.
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Organisation information
Organisation and country:
Institute of Geography SAS – research entity / Slovakia
Plant Production Research Center Piešťany – research entity / Slovakia
Institute of Landscape Ecology- research entity / Slovakia
AEN – energy distributor / Slovakia
Type of organisation:
× Enterprise □ SME □ Academic ×Research institute □ Public Body □ Other:
Former participation in FP European projects?
× Yes □ No (all except AEN)
Web addresses:
Institute of Geography SAS - http://www.geography.sav.sk/en1/
Plant Production Research Center Piešťany - http://www.cvrv.sk/en/introduction
Institute of Landscape Ecology- http://www.uke.sav.sk/index.php?lang=en
AEN - http://www.a-en.sk/o-nas-02.html
Description of the organisation:
IG SAS - The Institute of Geography is the scientific organization of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
which pursues research/scientific activities in a number of geographical sciences in the scope fixed by the
establishing documents No. 514/G/12/2008 issued 8th of August 2008 by the resolution of the Presidium
SAS No. 1130 from 22 July 2008. The mission of the Institute is the basic research of spatial structures
and the bonds between the natural and socio-economic systems with a special regard for the territory of
Slovakia.
PPRC - The Plant Production Research Center Piešťany was established in 2008 as the successor to the
Slovak Agricultural Research Centre Nitra. The Plant Production Research Center comprises the Plant
Production Research Institute Piešťany (founded in 1951), the Grassland and Mountain Agriculture
Research Institute Banská Bystrica (founded in 1962), the Research Institute of Viticulture and Enology
Bratislava (founded in 1924) and the Agroecology Research Institute Michalovce (founded in 1965). The
PPRC is involved in research and development, in gathering, assessment and utilisation of knowledge in
the field of general and specialised plant production and the related subjects of agricultural and natural
sciences, with a view to the development and sustainability of agriculture; competitiveness of agriculture
and landscape formation; principles of land management; optimisation of growing the crops and of
utilisation of the outputs of plant production; collection, conservation and utilisation of plant gene pool;
characteristics and production of new types of plants with improved traits for the use in the plant
production and knowledge transfer from the research and development to the practical users.
ILE SAS - is an interdisciplinary scientific institute for both the basic and applied research as well as for
coordination and elaboration of ecological plans and projects. The main research topics are the analyses,
syntheses and interpretations of the abiotical, biotic and socio - economical elements of landscape for
landscape ecological planning, optimal space organization and utilization of the landscape, ecological
problems of territory, the impact of anthropogenic factors on the landscape, ecological optimisation and
utilization of landscape and methodic E.I.A, ecological problems of agricultural landscapes, territorial
system of ecological stability, maintenance of biodiversity and geoecodiversity.
AEN - A.En. Slovakia is a 100% subsidiary of its parent company A.En. Invent AG. The company was
established for the purpose of trading on Slovak energy market. Within its operations, the company is
holding on electricity market through continuous searching for new trading opportunities; securing
electricity and gas deliveries for end costumers; building sources to produce electricity and heat, building
sources to produce electricity from biomass; searching for participation opportunities on energy projects
and implementing risk management tools.
(*) Contact details
Contact person
name /
Telephone /
E-mail / Country
Individual entities:
IG SAS – Konštantín Rosina / + 421 2 5751 0228 / konstantin.rosina@savba.sk SK
PPRC – Miriam Kizeková / +421 903 563 372 / kizekova@vutphp.sk / SK
ILE SAS – Zita Izakovičová / + 421 2 2092 0334/ zita.izakovicova@savba.sk / SK
AEN - Ján Holec / + 421 905 962 119 / jan.holec@stmpower.eu / SK
For the consortium as a whole:
Stengl Consulting - Kamil Smetana / + 421 918 865 403 / kamil.smetana@stengl.sk
(*) –Mandatory