Training of experts

Regional Centre provides specialized short term and long-term training and education courses to a range of stakeholders - from experts and researchers to decision makers. The trainings provide both theoretical and practical training in POPs/emerging chemicals analyses including operation of laboratory instrumentation, their identification, information on properties, behaviour, effects, risk assessment and generation and management of data including their interpretation. There are 5-20 trainings or workshops per year. A full overview of past training activities is provided in Activity reports available here.

The flagship training activity is the International Summer School that started in 2005 as a week-long residential course in person at RECETOX, building theoretical and practical capacities in identification, analysis and monitoring of toxic chemicals. Over the years over 1000 participants from 80 countries participated in past years. The topic of the Summer School changes every year to mirror current challenges in the environment and health nexus. The overview of Summer Schools is available here (in Czech, leflets in English).

International Summer School at RECETOX

• 17th Summer School on Toxic Compounds in the Environment 202121 - 25 June 2021 (online)
  Special Focus: environmental and social epidemiology
• 16th Summer School on Toxic Compounds in the Environment 2020
  15-19 June 2020
  Special focus: smart Cities, urban Air Quality, smart sensors, urban exposome, indoor air quality
• 15th Summer School on Toxic Compounds in the Environment 2019
  17-21 June 2019
  Special focus: human biomonitoring and risk assessment,  adverse outcome pathways, mechanistic toxicology, fate and transport of toxic chemicals, human exposure and epidemiological surveys
• 14th Summer School on Toxic Compounds in the Environment 2018
  18-22 June 2018
  Special focus: sources, levels, transformations and long-range transport, sampling and analytical techniques, toxic and ecotoxic effects on biota, biotests and biomonitoring, risk assessment, data analysis and modelling including GIS
• 13th Summer School on Toxic Compounds in the Environment 2017
  26-30 June 2017
  Special focus: passive sampling of toxic pollutants in the aquatic environment
• 12th Summer School on Toxic Compounds in the Environment 2016
  13-17 June 2016
  Special focus: toxic compounds in the indoor environment
• 11th Summer School on Toxic Compounds in the Environment 2015
  15-20 June 2015
  Special focus: cyanobacterial blooms and their toxins in water reservoirs and training in data management and analyses in support to the Global Monitoring Plan under the Stockholm Convention
• 10th Summer School on Toxic Compounds in the Environment 2014
  23-28 June 2014
  Special focus: analysis of toxic substances in the environment using isotopes and environmental monitoring data mining in support to the Global Monitoring Plan under the Stockholm Convention
• 9th Summer School on Toxic Compounds in the Environment 2013
  June 24–29, 2013
  Special focus: human exposure and risk assessment

• 8th Summer School of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology 2012
  June 25–30, 2012
  Special focus: passive sampling of pollutants in the aquatic environment

• 7th Summer School of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology 2011
  June 27 - July 2, 2011
  Special focus: climate change impacts on the presence of organic pollutants in the Arctic and their effects on human health

• 6th Summer School of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology 2010
  June 28 - July 3, 2010
  Special focus: bioavailability, fate and behavior of contaminants and also on the passive sampling techniques for pollutants in the air, water, sediment and soil

• 5th Summer School of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology 2009
  July 6-12, 2009
  Special focus: field experimental methods in environmental chemistry, ecotoxicology, ecological risk assessment, environmental monitoring, the study of exchange processes between environmental compartments, sampling procedures, collection of data for environmental modelling, field study of ecological stressor

• 4th Summer School of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology 2008
  July 7-13, 2008
  Special focus: field experimental methods in environmental chemistry, ecotoxicology, ecological risk assessment, environmental monitoring, the study of exchange processes between environmental compartments, sampling procedures, collection of data for environmental modelling, field study of ecological stressors

• 3rd Summer School of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology 2007
  July 9-15, 2007
  Special focus: field experimental methods in environmental chemistry, ecotoxicology, ecological risk assessment, environmental monitoring, the study of exchange processes between environmental compartments, sampling procedures, collection of data for environmental modelling, field study of ecological stressors

• 2nd Summer School of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology 2006
  July 9-15, 2006
  Special focus: field experimental methods in environmental chemistry, ecotoxicology, ecological risk assessment, environmental monitoring, the study of exchange processes between environmental compartments, sampling procedures, collection of data for environmental modelling, field study of ecological stressors

• 1st Summer School of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology 2005
  July 10-16, 2005
  Special focus: field experimental methods in environmental chemistry, ecotoxicology, ecological risk assessment, environmental monitoring, the study of exchange processes between environmental compartments, sampling procedures, collection of data for environmental modelling, field study of ecological stressors