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REFRESH accelerates applied sciences at the University of Ostrava

The REFRESH project has enabled the creation of a new research group URSA (Urban and Regional Studies & Applications), which consists mainly of PhD students in addition to academic staff. The young scientists are learning to effectively translate scientific knowledge into practice in the field of urban and regional development.

Mining is a thing of the past in our region. Researchers are now collecting stories of former miners

Mining, metallurgy and all associated heavy industry have shaped the identity of our region since the nineteenth century. Now, with the major decline in coal mining across the region, part of that identity is disappearing. In the REFRESH project, researchers from the University of Ostrava want not only to record the memories of miners and metallurgists, but also to trace how they themselves have coped or are coping with this change.

How do social inequalities relate to the health of our children?

There has never been such extensive research

Scientists will focus on the life chances of residents of excluded localities

REFRESH project will enable the most extensive research to date in excluded localities.

Balance of results and quick exchange of information. This was the REFRESH workshop

The first joint workshop of research programme leaders from VŠB-TUO and the University of Ostrava, as well as other members of the research team or representatives of the partner Moravian-Silesian Innovation Centre, was organised by the REFRESH project on Tuesday. Apart from the need to acquaint researchers with the project's track record, which became the content of the recently sent first implementation report, the aim of the meeting was also to exchange information across live laboratories and research programmes.