iWATERMAP Regional Assessment: South Moravian Region Interreg Europe project iWATERMAP Version: 0.1 EN This is version 1, made in semester 3 of the iWATERMAP project Date: 27 November 2018 Strategy of South Moravian Region 2020 Target sectors of the document: • Advanced manufacturing and engineering technologies • Precision devices • Software and hardware development • Medicines, medical care and diagnostics • Aerospace technology Document Challenges: • Ecological sustainability, social cohesion, in a narrower sense, such as a low- carbon economy and technology, and finding ways to address them → direct and indirect economic effects • Quality and functioning of institutions is an important condition for company trust → Entrepreneurship and innovation (motivation, weaK vs. strong, ambition) • Preliminary orientation of research to public research institutions, education system and critical talent • The aim is to use available resources, not only financial but also human and material, in the most promising areas of research and entrepreneurship and to strengthen the competitiveness of the economy in the long term. • Effective interconnection of academic and business sectors • increase the involvement of advanced companies, ensure the interconnection of RIS with university strategies, extend interventions and application of research results outside the Brno agglomeration The phenomenon of the wider region of Moravia The South Moravian Region is historically and geographically and geographically a part of the wider region of Moravia. Almost 100% of this region belongs to the Morava River basin and also in terms of technologies for water management the individual parts of this region complement each other. The wider Moravia region thus includes, in addition to the two largest centers of Brno (South Moravian Region) and Olomouc (Olomouc Region), the Zlín Region and parts of the Vysočina Region, the Pardubice Region and the Moravian-Silesian Region, including the regional cities of Zlín, Jihlava and Ostrava. Main characteristics of the wider Moravia region: • Most of the water resources of the South Moravian Region lie in the wider region (from the source of the Morava River Basin ) - Vysočina, Olomouc Region, Zlín Region, Moravian-Silesian Region, Pardubice Region, • Water treatment and purification technology, pumping equipment of the Olomouc and Pardubice regions , • Schools - Tomas Bata University, PalacKý University in Olomouc, Technical University of Ostrava, Secondary Technical School Lipník, Vysoké Mýto, • Technology of Water Management in RIS3 Olomouc Region - pumping and irrigation technology. What are the regional challenges in this area? (Objectives, challenges) The aim of the RIS3 strategy is to effectively target European, national, regional and private funds into priority innovation areas so that the knowledge potential of our country is fully exploited . Of ařazujeme here categories to increase the involvement of developed societies, ensuring the unification of the RIS with university strategies, expansion of interventions outside the Brno agglomeration, proposing solutions for secondary education, providing that the relevant operational programs at the national level were well designed to enable them to effectively use resources in the region. Among the various challenges in the South Moravian region we include particular stimuli IKan and innovation (motivation, weaK vs. strong , ambitious.) Next, researchers in the field of public institutions re-orientation to other areas , inadequate educational system and the critical mass of talent. In the area of water management responds RIS 3 problems with drought - changes in climate, wastewater treatment and n akládání with sludge . In business and innovation , RIS 3 responds to research - global vs. global. minimum number of local companies able to push technological boundaries to his business, the current lacK of mutual trust , compared with the traditional marKet í mi economies with relatively weak endogenous m business m sector , but there are also a few exceptions - energy, cyber security, and mechatronics ( combination of electrics and mechanical engineering) . The RIS3 strategy was developed by the RDA. It does not directly involve water management, although the region has a critical mass in the field (apparently there was a 'big profit' because multinationals were better connected) - the question is how to update the strategy who initiates this change ('change agent')? The following change agents are identified for the South Moravian Region: to introduce the representative office of the South Moravian Region, the representative of the environmental sector and the representative of the Regional Development Agency of South Moravia. Concerns were shared, but they have not yet been respected. CREA (cluster organization) has been excluded from the RIS3 adjustment strategy. The National Cluster Association could prove helpful in improving clusters of strategic positions of organizations. In the meantime, it was decided to use an alternative: the JMK 2020 strategy developed by the regional government, which also included water technologies.In the field of water not been completed WWTP insufficient cleaning, removal of phosphorus is not, some areas are threatened called flooding. Flash flooding and loss ou retention capability - i.e. the ability to hold or delay sufficient water. The main topics for solutions : drought and the effects of climate change, protection of turnips h resources , excessive wind and water erosion of soil, the threat of flooding and implementation of flood control measures . Program: • Supporting the fight against drought and water retention in the landscape in the South Moravian Region in 2018 • Reduction of emissions from local household heating in the South Moravian Region Source: Drought and yield of main crops for the Czech Republic and South Moravia The proposed action from South Moravian region is strongly linked with phenomenon of the wider region. In Water Smart Territories platform, the Olomoucký kraj is represented by our company (CREA Hydro&Energy). Additionally,and as a second action, we are using the priorities of South Moravian region for the proposition of new common research (or project). In pilot PoVE Water, which is a transnational project that draws on existing and emerging needs for professional competences, skills in the water sector and translates them into excellent professional quality. This ensures upward convergence of VET with knowledge triangles (EU) and strong involvement in regional economic and social ecosystems. The aim of the project is to create the infrastructure necessary for the integration of professional excellence into the water sector in Europe, thereby laying the foundations for the development of professional curricula and consequently the development of student competencies. Therefore, in South Moravian region aims to create a Centre of Vocational excellence with involvement elementary schools and life-long learning education.. .