WACRA 2005

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WACRA 2005

• Brno, Czech Republic

July 3 - 6, 2005
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Capital
Conference site
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Where we are
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Czech Republic - history

• rich, complicated, and ancient
• 4th century B.C. Celts
• End of the 5th and beginning of the 6th century -
  arrival of Slavs
  
• First unified state - 7th century Frankish
  merchant Samo (Greater Moravian Empire)
  
• 1346-1378 - the peak in the prestige and power of
  the kingdom of Bohemia during the reign of
  Charles IV

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Czech Republic - history

• Beginning of the 15th century crisis of state,
  Hussite movement
  
• 1526 - the Habsburg dynasty formation of a
  multi-national empire
  
• 1620 defeat of Bohemian Estates (Battle of
  White Mountain), continued centralization
  
• 28th October, 1918 foundation of an independent
  state of Czechs and Slovaks
  
• March 1939 May 1945 German occupation
• February 1948 Communist takeover

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Czech Republic - history

• August 1968 Soviet-led invasion by Warsaw Pact
  countries brings an end to the "Prague Spring"
  and an attempt to build "Socialism with a human
  face"

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Czech Republic - history

• November 1989 - fall of the Communist regime
• 1.1. 1993 Czech Republic founded after the split
  of Czechoslovakia

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Czech Republic - geography

• landlocked strategically located astride some of
  oldest and most significant land routes in
  Europe (traditional military corridor between
  the North European Plain and the Danube)
• Area - 78,866 sq km (slightly smaller than South
  Carolina)
  
• Elevation extremes
• lowest point Elbe River 115 m highest point
  Snezka 1,602 m (5 254 ft)
  
• Land use
• arable land 40 permanent crops 3.04 other
  56.96 (1998 est.)

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Czech Republic - climate

• Weather continental influences marked by large
  fluctuations in both temperature and
  precipitation,
  
• The mean annual temperature 45º F (7º C) to 48º F
  (9º C).
  
• High temperatures (July) can reach 91º F (33ºC),
• Low temperatures (February) may drop to 1º F
  (-17º C).
  

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Czech Republic - people

• Population 10,249,216
• Median age 38.4 years
• Life expectancy 75.18 years
• Population growth rate -0.08
• Ethnic groups Czech (Bohemian) 81.2, Moravian
  13.2

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Bohemians
Moravians
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Czech Republic - government

• Capital Prague
• Government type parliamentary democracy
• Suffrage 18 years of age, universal
• chief of state President Vaclav KLAUS (since
  March 2003) note the Czech Republic's first
  president Vaclav HAVEL stepped down from office
  in February 2003 having served 10 yearscabinet
  coalition of Social democrats, Cristian democrats
  and Liberty union

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Czech Republic - economy

• GDP per capita 15,500
• agriculture 3.8industry 41services 55.2
• Inflation rate 0.6
• Unemployment 10
• Currency CZK (Czech koruna)
• Exchange rate USD 1.00 CZK 26.00

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Famous Czechs sportsmen

• Ice-hockey

Jaromir Jagr
Dominik Hasek
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Famous Czechs sportsmen

• Tennis

Martina Navratilova
Ivan Lendl
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Famous Czechs sportsmen

• Athletics

Emil Zatopek
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Famous Czechs sportsmen

• Gymnastics

Vera Caslavska
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Famous Czechs Nobel Prize

• Jaroslav Seifert poet (literature)

• Jaroslav Heyrovsky polarography (chemistry)

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Famous Czechs writers

• Milan Kundera (Unbearable lightness of being, The
  joke)

• Fanz Kafka (The Trial, The Castle)

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Famous Czechs composers

• Bedrich Smetana (My fatherland)

• Antonin Dvorak (Slavonic dances, From the New
  World)

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Brno

• 400,000 inhabitants
• 6 universities, almost 40,000 students
• Two dominants
• Gothic castle from the 13th century - Spilberk
• St. Peter and Pauls Cathedral built in the 14th
  century (Petrov Hill)

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Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul
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Spilberk Castle
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Mendel Universiy

• founded in 1919
• Faculties
• Agriculture (1950)
• Forestry and Wood Technology (1950)
• Horticulture (1985)
• Business and Economics (1959).
• Faculty of Business and Economics
• Currently 88 teachers and 2150 students
• Three-level education (Bc., MSc., PhD)
• 3 study programmes Management and Economics,
  Economic policy and public administration, System
  engineering and informatics.

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Conference places
Lednice
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Conference places
Olomouc
Austerlitz
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Tour
Moravian karst (caves)
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UNESCO heritage sites
Namest nad Oslavou
Telc
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Hluboka
Karlstejn
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PRAGUE
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Brno ideal site for WACRA