Stockholm Convention Regional Centre for Capacity Building and the Transfer of Technology in the Czech Republic is a body supporting sound chemicals management in the Central and Eastern European region and worldwide.

Stockholm Convention Regional Centre

Following its official designation in Decision SC-4/23 of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants in May 2009, the Czech Republic hosts the Regional Centre for Capacity Building and Technology Transfer of the Stockholm Convention. The Regional Centre provides long-term support to 23 countries in Central and Eastern Europe and serves as a strategic scientific partner for more than 30 countries in Africa and Asia. It is a project partner of UNEP, UNIDO and UNDP in capacity building projects in developing countries, and organizes conferences, seminars and summer schools. The Regional Centre receives support for its activities from a cooperation agreement with the Ministry of the Environment for the provision of the Regional Centre's functions, as well as from its scientific and capacity-building projects that the Regional Centre prepares for partner countries and institutions.

The SCRC is headed by Kateřina Šebková, with Nina Pavliuk and Lukáš Pokorný the other members of the core team. The whole multitude of SCRC activities is however made possible thanks to the whole RECETOX Research Infrastructure (RI) team. 

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