Towards a safe and just operating
space for EU agriculture

Technologicke Centrum Praha (Tc Praha)

Location: Praha, Czech Republic
Role in the project:

WP8 lead partner. Expertise in agriculture, food systems and food loss and waste reduction.  Use of the own developed horizon scanning tool on data mining and literature review. TC Prague also contributes to project communication, results dissemination and exploitation in WP11.

Description:

Technology Centre Prague (TC Prague) is a non-profit association of legal entities established in 1994 with around 70 employees. TC Prague, particularly the Department of Strategic Studies is experienced in the use of various methods of ex-post analyses and evaluation of development policies and future-oriented studies, such as econometric and statistical microdata and macrodata analyses, scientometric analyses, field research and surveys, participatory multi-actor studies involving experts, stakeholders and citizens, horizon scanning of emerging technologies, Delphi-techniques or scenario building. Science and technology in the society is the primary thematic area of the TC Prague, beside that it provides analyses in thematic areas as urban and rural development (smart cities), innovation process in SMEs, innovation trends in agriculture, design and evaluation of R&I and agricultural and rural policies, and sustainable consumption. 

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Members

400-500Tomas_Ratinger
Assoc. Prof., PhD Tomas Ratinger
Position: senior researcher – impacts of rural and agricultural policies, research and innovation policies, quantitative methods
Role in the project:
WP8 leader, innovation trends in agriculture, consumption trends and associated institutional conditions, and their transcriptions in model parameters, scenario building.
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400-500Ondrej_Pokorny
Ondrej Pokorny, MSc
Position: senior researcher – social scientist
Role in the project:
horizon scanning methods and tools, future-oriented methods, scenario building
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400-500Iva_Vancurova
Iva Vancurova, MSc in economics
Position: manager assistant, economist
Role in the project:
project COMDISS responsible at TC Prague, organisation of stakeholders´ events, economic analyses, supporting agenda and reporting
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Ing. Samuel Ahado
Ph.D.
Role in the project:
Analyst of the Brightspace project, focus areas - agricultural economics and economic modelling
Background:

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