Press Release
Most, 24 June 2010 - The Czech Coal Group has evaluated the Chytré hlavy pro Sever [Clever Heads for the North] grant scheme, which focuses on support for education in the region and was launched for secondary and tertiary education institutions in the Most area in March 2010.
Twenty-five schools in the Most area have entered some 30 projects, valued a total of CZK 20 million. The Czech Coal Group’s representatives short-listed 15 projects for the semi-finals. Public voting helped to select one of the projects to be supported. Thanks to the largest number of votes out of a total of 2,585 votes, this support will be given to the “Instruction is Fun in Modern Classrooms” project entered by Vyšší odborná škola, Obchodní akademie, SPgŠ and SZŠ in Most [a higher education college plus business, teaching and health care secondary schools, all under a single umbrella of a semi-autonomous organisation]. The project is intended to help modernise two classrooms for nursing, first aid laboratory and somatology.
Further, the Czech Coal Group has decided to support, through Vršanská uhelná a.s., the project of Podkrušnohorské gymnázium in Most [a grammar school] titled “Modernisation of the Chemical Laboratory Area” and the Most facility of VŠB – Technical University of Ostrava with its “Creation of Multimedia” project.
The Czech Coal Group is convinced that support for educational projects is needed because of the low level of education in the Ústecký Region. Last year its sponsorship focused more strongly on this area as part of Program Spolužití [the Coexistence Programme], to which the Chytré hlavy pro Sever scheme is linked.
The Czech Coal Group includes Czech Coal a.s., a trader in energy commodities, mainly brown coal, electrical energy and greenhouse gas emissions allowances, and Litvínovská uhelná a.s., which manages the largest coal deposit in the Czech Republic, Vršanská uhelná a.s., whose coal reserves within the mining limits will last until 2058, Czech Coal Services, a.s., which provides shared services to the extraction companies, and a number of other service companies. REN Power CZ, a.s., a major investor in renewable energy sources, and FitCraft Production a.s., a prominent Czech manufacturer of photovoltaic systems, also form a part of the Group.
Contact:
Gabriela Benešová
Spokesperson
Czech Coal Group
Tel.: +420 476 203 141
GSM: +420 725 327 758
g.benesova@czechcoal.cz
www.czechcoal.cz
Czech Coal Group
E-mail: ccg@czechcoal.cz
Czech Coal a.s.
Evropská 2690/17, 160 00 Prague 6
Tel.: +420 222 183 111
E-mail: info@czechcoal.cz
Residence:
V. Řezáče 315, 434 67 Most
