Czech Climate Week



From June 1st–7th, 2026, UJEP will participate in Czech Climate Week with the following events:

🎬 Tuesday June 2nd, 3:00–4:30 p.m. Film screening followed by a discussion, UJEP Scientific Library, computer study room

Screening of the Czech documentary Incendios (2021) about forest fires in Bolivia and the efforts of local volunteer firefighters to keep them under control. The film will be followed by a discussion on the connections between forest fires, climate change, and nature restoration with expert Mgr. Jana Müllerová, Ph.D. from the UJEP Faculty of the Environment.

🥗 Thursday June 4, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM Lunch with the UJEP Sustainability Manager, CPTO Cafeteria Lounge

An informal lunch meeting with UJEP’s Sustainability Manager – Dana Kapitulčinová, Ph.D. The main topic of discussion will be UJEP’s climate resilience, but you are welcome to bring up other topics related to sustainability at UJEP. Please bring your own lunch—either from the cafeteria menu or your own supplies. Of course, you’re welcome to stop by even without lunch, perhaps just with a cup of coffee 😊

📚 Throughout the month of June, Climate Shelf, UJEP Scientific Library, near the lending desk

A special selection of books on climate change and other related topics available to browse or borrow throughout the month of June

Join us and get inspired! Students, staff, and external visitors interested in the topic are all welcome. Admission to all events is free.

We look forward to seeing you!

UJEP will join the Czech Climate Week in the week of 2-8 June 2025 with the following events:

  • 3rd June at 17:30 Screening of the film “2040” in the Amphitheatre in the UJEP Campus (in English with Czech subtitles, in case of bad weather in the Purple Auditorium of the MFC Building), from 19:00 Discussion of the film with Climate Ambassador doc. Trögl and Sustainability Manager Dr. Kapitulčinová (expected in Czech language, but English speakers are also welcome!)
  • Climate shelf. Offer of books on climate change and other related topics for loan at the UJEP Research Library
  • What do books say about climate? Exhibition of climate-related books in the glass vitrines of the UJEP Research Library

Events held as part of the Science Fair PVA EXPO PRAGUE, Beranových 667, Prague 9 – Letňany, 5-7 June 2025 (physically and online):

Thursday 5.6. 15:00
Future Energy: Sustainability or Blackout?
Guest: doc. Ing. Jaroslav Šípal, Ph.D., FŽP UJEP
Discussion on the transformation of the European energy sector. Are renewable energy sources to blame for the Spanish blackout? How will the electricity grids of the future be regulated? Will Lex RES 3, electricity sharing, flexibility aggregation or a massive switch to spot tariffs? Will the Czech Republic build 4 nuclear units (or at least one)? And will we live to see it? Will we manage mass electromobility?

Friday 6.6. 10:30
Soil carbon and climate: doom or salvation?
Ing. Jiří Volánek, Ph.D., Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University
Discussion on the role of soil carbon, soil organic matter and soil organisms
in the global carbon cycle. Does soil have the potential for greater carbon sequestration or does it contribute to greenhouse gas emissions? What processes are involved occur and can be influenced? Is organic farming a salvation or a marginal path? Will new EU legislation help soil protection or will it just new bureaucracy?

We contribute to climate-related events across Czechia. Join us and get inspired!