Life & Environment Research Center Ostrava (LERCO)

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LERCO

Importance for the region

LERCO is a newly built science and research hub, which is one of the tools enabling the transformation of the Moravian-Silesian Region (MSK) from a “coal” to a “healthier and smarter” region. The project’s state-of-the-art facilities and 9 excellent research teams will enable the implementation of activities in a broad and unique interdisciplinary focus in biomedical, natural and behavioural fields, from basic research through experimental development to applied research, across R&D institutions (OU, FNO, VŠB-TUO) and other cooperating R&D and commercial entities in the Czech Republic/abroad.

The aim of the project is to comprehensively support the development of the innovative R&D potential of the MSK region in non-technical fields with impact on: the health of the population, the development of R&D cooperation with the commercial sphere (support for the creation of spin-off companies), support for employment in the region, increase the attractiveness of the region in R&D, education and municipality by providing innovative tools.

The project is not based on commercial activities or their support, it only prepares a suitable background for further possible (and desirable) cooperation between the R&D sphere and the application sphere in MSK, which has not been sufficient regionally so far.

The University of Ostrava and its partners have high professional potential with the ambition to become an excellent workplace in selected medical, natural science, biomedical and behavioural fields as one of the foundations of the scientific research pillar supporting the transformation of the region. However, further development is already encountering limits related to insufficient infrastructural facilities, expansion of the team with excellent national and international staff who will play a key role in the education of their own future scientists continuing R&D activities at the OU and in the region. The only option is a specific grant programme that will financially cover the complexity and interconnectedness of R&D development issues in relation to the needs of the region.

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Principal Investigator

University of Ostrava

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Place of realization

Ostrava, Moravskoslezský kraj

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