EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

INTRODUCTION
The EU FP funded ERA ENV Specific Support Action has spawned a vital cooperation among researchers from the Technical University Zvolen
as the ERA ENV Project Partner, and other research organizations in the Slovak Republic as its clients. During the project implementation,
a number of project pre-proposals for specific FP 6 calls had been drafted. Despite an immense time pressure conditioned by the SSA timing,
this activity has continued with an eye on the presumed EU FP 7 call lines. Presented materials were drafted during several dedicated expert
meetings that took place from November 2005 till July 2006 at Skuratka, Chmelovska, as well as in Warsaw on the occasion of Integration4Water
(EU FP6 SSA) workshop. They were conceived of either as self-contained preliminary project proposals, or modules offered for
project compilation a la cárte.
Because of the value of the individual and collective inputs by contributing researchers and teams, as well as the subsequent synthesis by
the editors, a decision was made to publish them as a Compendium of Pre-Proposals and Call-Lines. Its primary aim is to present them as
solid components, from which future projects can be further developed, and, last but not least, in order to demonstrate the fruitfulness of the
thematic networking, as promoted by the ERA ENV project. Topical expert groups are committed to a further elaboration of the presented preproposals,
which, along with future contributions, are also available at www.virginforests.sk.
Credits shall be given to all contributing authors, who shared their ideas on the frontiers of environmental research.
About ERA ENV Project
ERA ENV (Extending European Research Area through Environmental Approaches) is a Specific Support Action under EU’s Sixth Framework Programme, aiming at assisting the participation of
organisations from New Member States and Candidate Countries in FP6 projects. More information and free registration: www.eraenv.com
Editors