Czech Republic: Environment Expertise Fund

Local news, 21.04.2011

A project agreement on environment was signed between Switzerland and the Czech Republic on 4 April 2011. Switzerland contributes one million Swiss francs to support activities in the field of environmental protection and sustainable development.

Pravčická brána, Bohemian Switzerland
The Environment Expertise Fund supports small projects in the field of nature conservations and landscape protection, environment protection, climate and air protection, economic and environmental policy. © Czech Tourism

The Environment Expertise Fund aims at fostering specific and relevant approaches to promote environmental protection and sustainable development. The Fund supports small projects (size: CHF 30'000 to CHF 200'000) related to planning capacities in public administration and facilitating knowledge transfer in the field of nature conservations and landscape protection, environment protection, climate and air protection, economical and environmental policy. The direct beneficiaries will be the selected small project applicants (NGOs, research institutions, regions, municipalities).