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Newsletter
Healthy Cities of the Czech Republic

I/2013 (EN)

Dear Colleagues,

please let me introduce you the new issue of the Czech Healthy Cities Newsletter
which brings you short news and highligts, this time covering mainly
the month of February 2012. You will find here interesting info from Czech Healthy
Cities and their association.

(NOTE: Some of the website links are available only in Czech, in that case
you can use the Google Translate toolbar, which can be found on the left side
of the HCCZ web page.)

I believe that this new HCCZ Newsletter will be for you an interesting and useful
source of information and inspiration from Czech Healthy Cities, Municipalities and Regions.

Petr Svec
HCCZ Director and National Healthy City Project Coordinator


Information and updates

The Healthy Cities and Regions will dedicate to the topic of volunteering and public service

Volunteering has been developing in the recent years not only in the non-profit or corporate sphere, but also in the municipalities and regions, where it presents a major opportunity for development of a number of activities. In a way similar to public (community) services that currently, unfortunately, undergo significant changes and bring a number of complications both to the very applicants for employment, who are interested in public community services, as well as to municipalities and regions that organize this activity. Despite these difficulties, both public service and volunteering present a great challenge to deal with a number of issues in the municipalities. For this reason, the Healthy Cities together with the partners HESTIA o.s. - national volunteering centre and foreign partners C.A.R.D.O. from Slovakia and association of Healthy Cities of the Baltic Region have prepared the project of "Volunteering and Community Service (performed by unemployed) in Municipalities". In the following two years, the project will gather best practice examples dedicated to the issue of volunteering from the Czech Republic and abroad.

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Prague's city districts discussed balanced development, support of physical activities and other topics

On Thursday of March 7, 2013, Ujezd nad Lesy in Prague 21 hosted the Meeting of Prague's City Districts, organised by the CD of Prague 21 in collaboration with Healthy Cities of the Czech Republic and Palacky University in Olomouc. The meeting was dedicated to realisation Local Agenda 21 on the level of city districts, strategic development or support of physical activities. The representative of the recreology department at Palacky University in Olomouc, Mr Zdenek Hamrik, had an appearance on the support of physical activities. The experience and best practice examples dedicated to the issue of planning with the public and preparation of the strategic plan have been for instance introduced by the representatives of city districts of Prague 12 or Prague 10. The programme also included other topics, such as preparation of nature trails or community field work for prevention of sociopathic phenomena.

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Czech Healthy Cities won a number of awards for quality procedures in public administration

The awards of successful municipalities form a traditional part of the programme of National Conference on Quality in Public Administration. Within the awarding of Ministry of Interior Prizes for Quality and Innovation, the implementation of Local Agenda 21 (LA21) method, i.e. practical application of sustainable development principles was acknowledged again. HCCZ members had strong representation among the awarded for 2012, as they dominated the category of innovations with four out of six awarded prizes this year.

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The Czech Healthy Regions shared their experience in Pilsen

On Tuesday of February 12, 2013, the regular Meeting of Healthy Regions took place at the Regional Office of Pilsen Region. The aim of this event was to share the approved procedures and inspiration in the development of international programme of Healthy Region on the regional level. The topics of this year's meeting among others included the support of volunteering and transfer of experience from the practice. Approved procedures were presented by the representatives of Pilsen Region, South-Moravian Region, Liberec Region and the Region of Vysočina.

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