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State Programme of Environmental Education and Awareness in the Czech Republic

The State Programme of Environmental Education and Awareness in the Czech Republic (SP EE&A) is a fundamental document ensuring the long-term goal of the development of EE&A in the Czech Republic. It defines competencies, goals and tasks facilitating development in this area.

The main objective of SP EE&A is to increase people’s awareness and knowledge about the environment. EE&A is part of the general education, which we obtain through education in both our families and schools, through lifetime self-culture, our own experience and feelings.

SP EE&A creates conditions for a functioning system within the Czech Republic. It forms a platform for open and broad cooperation between state administration, self-government, public institutions, for-profit and non-profit sectors, when interconnecting the activities of individual departments in order to achieve the objectives in the given area. It is based on the belief that achieving a the state of harmony, in which people protect the environment, respect all forms of life and actively apply the principles and objectives of sustainable development, will lead to the preservation of Earth’s biodiversity, improvement in the environment, continuation of the cultural and architectonic heritage and assurance of healthy development of the human population.

In autumn 2000, the Government of the Czech Republic adopted its Resolution No. 1048/2000 and thereby approved the SP EE&A as a strategic document intended to ensure the development of environmental education from a long-term perspective. At the same time, the Action Plan P EE&A for the period 2001 – 2003 was adopted in the Annex to the Resolution.

Action Plan of the State Programme of Environmental Education and Awareness in the Czech Republic for the period 2001-2003
SP EE&A and its Annex Action Plan for the period 2001 - 2003 were adopted with respect to the accession of the Czech Republic to the European Union and as a part of the implementation of Directive No. 90/313/EEC on The Freedom of Access to Information on the Environment.

Action Plan of the State Programme of Environmental Education and Awareness in the Czech Republic for the period 2004-2006
Another Action Plan SP EE&A for the period 2004 - 2006 was adopted in autumn 2003. The Action Plan was built on the outcomes of the previous Action Plan for the period 2001 - 2003 and was more distinctly oriented towards sustainable development and public relations activities.

Action Plan of the State Programme of Environmental Education and Awareness in the Czech Republic for the period 2007-2009
In the autumn of 2006, the new Action Plan SP EE&A for the period 2007 – 2009 was adopted.

Framework programme for primary education

Approved by the Minister of Education, Youth and Sports on 29 August 2005, the document also contains the chapter The Principles for Preparation of a School Educational Programme. One of the cross-sectional topics, which are an obligatory part of primary education, is environmental education.

Programme Health 21

By means of the Resolution of the Government of the Czech Republic No. 1046, the Long-term Programme for the Improvement of Health of the Population of the Czech Republic - Health for All in the 21st Century, was adopted in October 2003 (in short HEALTH 21).
The goals of this programme include a Healthy and Safe Environment (goal 10). The programme HEALTH 21 is a wide-ranging set of activities focusing on a continuous and gradual improvement in all indicators of health of the population. The basic responsibility for the fulfilment of the programme rests with the Government and its Council for Health and the Environment, within which a committee for this programme was set up. These issues will be addressed on a regular basis by both the Council and its Committee HEALTH 21. The control centre of the programme is the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic.