PROGRAM ONLINE

Wednesday 9 September 2020

Opening ceremony

Wednesday 9 September 2020, 10:00 – 12:15

• Speech given by Mrs. Ivana Straska, Governor of the South Bohemian Region
• Discussion of the region’s representatives
• Political scientist’s discussion

Seminar No. 1: Turning Covid into an opportunity

Wednesday 9 September 2020, 12:30 – 14:00

• Domestic tourism
• How gastronomy has changed - e.g. food delivery
• Have we learned to shop online more?
• Production of personal protective equipment
• Optimization of working hours – home office
• Video conferencing and video meetings instead of face-to-face meetings
• Attitudes of young people in the time of Covid

Speakers

• DI (FH) Werner Pamminger, MBA, Executive Director of Business Upper Austria
• David Borovka, CEO & technical guarantor, founder, company Borovka Event s.r.o.
• Tomáš Pešek, coach and lecturer specializing in experiential pedagogy

Seminar No. 2: Changes in the whole tourism market

Wednesday 9 September 2020, 14:15 – 15:45

• Is the further development of tourism predictable?
• To what extent will the change in the aviation industry affect tourism?
• How have destination clients changed?
• This year’s summer vacation differently? 

Speakers

• David Koppitz, Deputy Minister of Regional Development, Regional Development Section
• Andreas Winkelhofer, Managing Director of Upper Austria Tourism
• Jaromír Polášek, Director, Tourism Authority of South Bohemia
• Jiří Dužár, photography/marketing/strategy

Thursday 10 September 2020

Thursday 10 September 2020, 9:00 – 9:15

• Opening speech
• Summary of the first day program

Seminar No. 3: Regional cooperation

Thursday 10 September 2020, 9:15 – 10:45

• The European region Danube - Vltava (ERDV)
• Short distance and long-distance cooperation
• Crossing the border at the time of Covid
• Best examples of European projects and cross border cooperation

Speakers

• Romana Sadravetz, Head of the Danube-Vltava European Region Office

Seminar No. 4: Wealth in health 

Thursday 10 September 2020, 11:00 – 12:30

• Healthy food, healthy body, healthy mind 
• Health without borders
• Spa

Speakers

• Ulrike Salzbacher, BSc MSc, Social and Health Department of Upper Austria
• Elke Ledl, Head of Initiative Healthacross, Lower Austria
• MUDr. Petr PETR, Ph.D., Head of Clinical Pharmacology Ward, The Hospital of Ceske Budejovice

Seminar No. Conference seminar: Bark beetle calamity and the role of forests in climate and water cycle

Thursday 10 September 2020, 13:00 – 17:00

• Forestry of the Czech Republic
• Biology of the global water cycle
• The consequences of deforestation and land drainage for rainfall and water cycle
• Bark beetle calamity in the Czech Republic
• Bark beetle - biology of the bark beetle and new findings in its research
• How to fight drought in practice

 Speakers

• Anastassia M. Makarieva, Ph. D., Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Division of Theoretical Physics
• Nadir Erbilgin, University of Alberta, Edmonton
• Petr Doležal, Ph.D., Biological Center of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, University of South Bohemia
• Douglas Sheil, DPhil, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
• RNDr. Jan Pokorný, CSc., Director, Company ENKI o.p.s.
• Michal Kravčík, CSc., hydrologist and environmentalist, winner of the 1999 Goldman Prize

17:30 Official closing ceremony and summary of the Forum of Partner Regions of the South Bohemian Region 2020

The schedule may change without any prior notice - please, keep updated on http://fpr-sb.eu/en