Ratiboř

The unfavourable climatic conditions are most pronounced in this place, especially in the hot season, which is aggravated by the high intensity of car traffic.

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6. 8. 2024

BE READY = Resilience, Preparedness and Mitigation Strategy for Urban Heat Islands

A total of 12 cities from all states in the Danube region will be involved in the pilot testing. In the Czech Republic, this will be the municipality of Ratiboř. The main outputs of the project include jointly developed and implemented methodologies and toolkits for urban heat island risk assessment, data analysis and modelling at city level.

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In the framework of the project we are working not only with Czech partners

JINAG
plays a key role in supporting the definition of pilot projects and the development of toolkits for cities and municipalities. The agency is actively involved in formulating policy recommendations and disseminating them to its regional partners, thereby supporting projects focused on environmental protection and climate change adaptation. Through cooperation with national and EU authorities, JINAG ensures comprehensive support and coherence with broader policy frameworks.
www.jinag.eu

DEX Innovation Centre
As the EIT Health HUB for the Czech Republic, the Be Ready project focuses on the impacts of environmental change on human health. This includes mapping best practices in the regions and, last but not least, providing support to the Czech project partner Municipality of Ratiboř in the implementation of the project, which is one of the key roles of the DEX IC within this project.
www.dex-ic.com

Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
is the scientific partner of the project Be Ready. STUBA is involved in the preparation of a methodology for the identification of heat islands in municipalities and is working with the municipality of Ratiboř to produce a document on heat islands. It is also implementing local measurement and recording of climate data that will help the municipality to process, interpret and use in the heat island document. As a scientific partner of the project, it is helping to organise and implement a local thematic workshop.
www.stuba.sk

This project is supported by the Interreg Danube Region programme co-funded by the European Union.

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22. 4. 2024

On the occasion of International Earth Day, we present an EU-funded project to support partner cities to increase resilience to the negative impacts of heat islands...

12 cities in total from all countries in the Danube region.

Within this framework, effective measures will be developed, tested and implemented to help tackle heat islands. Within our municipality, specific solutions for an area of over 6,000 m² will be tested in a pilot project right in the centre of our municipality.

These solutions will focus on green measures based on vegetation and blue measures focusing on new uses of water resources. The main outputs of the project include jointly developed and implemented methodologies and toolkits for urban heat island risk assessment, data analysis and modelling at city level.

What does this mean for people?

Urban heat islands have a negative impact on the people who live in them. Higher temperatures affect not only the physical and mental well-being of city residents, but also the quality of the environment, not to mention the higher costs of air conditioning buildings. The expected benefit of the proposed solutions is to reduce the temperature in towns and cities by up to 1 degree Celsius and thus mitigate the negative impacts mentioned above.

Project start date: 1 January 2024
Interreg DANUBE (2021–2027)
Project coordinator: Sofia Development Association
Implementation period: 01/2024–06/2026

THE AIM OF THE PROJECT IS:

• Provide cities with assessment and operational tools to better understand the causes and effects of UHI.
• Share methodologies for vulnerability and environmental assessment.
• Co-develop, test and validate jointly developed solutions to mitigate the effects of UHI through 12 pilot projects in cities.
• Based on traditional Chinese practice that uses small but effective strategies to address the problem, use three types of solutions (green=green, white=surface and blue=water).
• Improve city resilience, preparedness and adaptation to UHI through action plans and strategies.

You can get involved and support actions to fight climate change also in the municipality of Ratibor and make the world more sustainable for all. More information about the project can be found on our social media pages on Facebook and LinkedIn and also on the project website: www.interreg-danube.eu/projects/be-ready.