CCSS is an association of high tech SMEs, the public administration and research organisations. It is an independent, non-profit and non-governmental organisation. .It is a type of virtual centre of excellence with the focus on the implementation of new communication and navigation technologies which have potential for sustainable development.

The CCSS co-operates with a wide range of institutions and individuals, home and foreign ones. International activities in the field of international projects, utilisation of modernist technologies, co-operation networks of the small and medium business within the framework of regional economies comprise intensive contacts, particularly in Europe, Africa and South America

By way of acquisition, analyses and proliferation of highly qualified and concentrated knowledge of the state-of-the-art world techniques, which are made operatively accessible to the widest circles of potential interested subjects, to maximum extent, to contribute to the growth of productivity not only in industrial enterprises but in the branch of small and medium business as well - in the production, trade and services both in industrial agglomerations and in rural, predominantly agricultural regions.

Czech Environmental Information Agency

was established by Decision of the Minister of the Environment of the Czech Republic on 1 April 2005. It is a state allowance organisation of the Ministry of the Environment (MoE).

CENIA provides expertise in following areas:

• Implementation and enforcement of the Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision_making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters, and Council Regulation (EEC) No 1210/90 on the Establishment of the European Environment Agency and the European Environment Information and Observation Network in the role of National Focal Point.
• Establishment of a national Environmental (Information) Agency supported by development and implementation of integrated environmental information system including primary data validation and information syntheses.
• Development and provision of map services including map servers (geoportals).
• Elaboration and analysis of aerial and satellite multispectral/hyperspectral images; spatial data (DEM, DTM) and multisensor data, and their processing and implementation into GIS applications as a supportive tool for policy implementation.
• Development of applications for spatial multitemporal analysis.
• Development of geodata visualisation applications and modelling of possible impact of any environmental situation, e.g. as the supportive tool for decision support systems.
• Implementation of INSPIRE in form of INSPIRE based geoportal.
• Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC) and related topics (Best Available Techniques (BAT), BAT Reference Documents (BREF), etc.) - subsequent development and implementation of national system of IPPC; support to state and regional authorities.
• Integrated Pollutant Register (IPR) - implementation of EC Decision 2000/479/EC on Pollutant Emission Register and subsequent development and establishment of national register including IPR network with regional authorities and connecting databases on IPPC facilities, water discharges, air pollution sources and waste management.
• Implementation of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)/ Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA).
• Development and implementation of Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS)/Environmental Management System (EMS) - EC regulations 1836/93 and 761/2001; and ecolabelling - Environmentally Friendly Products and The Flower.
• Development and implementation of methodologies for cross-media and cross-sectoral interpretations of environmental information, in the context of social and economic data and sustainable development.
• Development and implementation of environmental publication and education systems for the state and public administration, experts and public.
• Development and validation of methods of environmental risk identification and assessment.

in Czech "ÚHÚL", is a government organization established by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic.

• Forest inventory in the Czech Republic (FI) Forest inventory is the independent survey of forest lands and their development. By means of the forest inventory information collected, the organization's focus is especially on growing stock and the forest's functionality as an important renewable natural resource and crucial part of the environment. The most modern terrain equipment is used for the data collection.
• The compilation and administration of Regional Plans of Forest Development (RPFD) data including the execution of uniform forest typologic system in the Czech Republic Regional Plans of Forest Development (RPFD) are the defining principles of forest management according to the natural forest areas in the Czech Republic. They stem from the concept of sustainable forest management and hope to minimize conflict between societal interests and those of particular forest owners. These principles serve as information resources for executing forest management plans, forest management outlines, as well as the support for government administration decision making.
• Information and Data Centre (IDC) for forest and game management sector of the Czech Republic The Information and Data Centre executes the administration of the central database and archives on forests and game management in the Czech Republic which includes monitoring data and other related information. The most important function is the regular administration and entry of forest and forest management data collected in the Czech Republic and the accessibility of this data to the bodies of forest administration in the government and to the interested public.
• Providing information services within forest certification of the Czech Republic Forest certification is the process of an independent organization issuing a certificate confirming that forest management fulfills the predefined criteria of sustainable forest management. The National Certification Centre is a department of the FMI. The National Certification Centre provides information service and support for the implementation of forest certification in the Czech Republic. In addition to the above mentioned activities, every year the FMI contributes to the "Forest and Forest Management Report of the Czech Republic", elaboration of other analysis, methodologies, layouts and prognosis. The FMI is also involved in domestic and international research projects as well as working in the area of consultation, methodological and edification activities.

Basic and applied research in geodesy, surveying and cartography, development and testing of new techniques and software in following items:

• geodesy and geodynamics,
• engineering survey,
• state cadastre of real estate,
• map compilation and editing,
• research and development of Information System of Surveying, Mapping and Cadastre as a source information reGISter for the State Information System of the Czech Republic,
• production of specialized measuring devices for geodesy and cartography,
• activities in state standardization and metrology in the sphere of geodesy and cartography.
• State metrology center.
• Branch information center and Branch Library.

The name of the Vysocina Region derives from the name of the Ceskomoravska vrchovina (Bohemian-Moravian Highlands), a hilly, undulating countryside situated between the two historical lands of the Czech Republic. Vysocina reaches over 800 meters in altitude, in the two distinct mountain ranges of Zdarske vrchy in the north of the region and Jihlavske vrchy in the south-west. The main European water divide, echoing the former frontier between Bohemia and Moravia, divides the region into two parts almost equal in area. Bordering the South-Moravian Region to the east, the South-Bohemian and Middle Bohemian Regions to the west, and sharing a border with the Pardubice Region to the north-east, the region is situated in the very heart of the Czech Republic. The economy of the region's eastern part is influenced by the neighbouring urban centre of Brno, while the north-eastern part is within the sphere of influence of the capital of Prague.

The VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava is a technical and economic institution of higher education, the principal task of which is the provision of higher education based on free and internationally oriented research. It is an integral part of the higher education structure in the Czech Republic providing for the highest education in the province of its specialisation. The VŠB-TUO has the right of conferring academic and scientific degrees, and doctor honorary degrees. The scientific and teaching staffs collaborate with research and academic institutions and specialists on national and international levels.

Institute of Geography at Faculty of Science, Masaryk University in Brno belongs to the largest university geographical institutions in the Czech Republic.

Research activities of the Institute have a long tradition in the physical and human geography going back to the period shortly after foundation of Masaryk University. Geographical cartography and geoinformatics were established later. Individual disciplines have been interrelated especially in recent years. From this standpoint geography significantly contributes to multidisciplinary approach. Members of the Institute are involved in a number of grants and research projects and the Institute cooperates with numerous domestic and foreign institutions.

Institute of Geography provides within its teaching activities education in bachelor and master study programmes in geography and cartography and in multidisciplinary studies aimed at teacher-training. These programmes cover all basic geographical disciplines. Master studies graduates can extend their scientific qualification in Ph.D. study programme.

HSRS is a SME company that works for more then 12 years in the Czech market and offers wide variety of services dealing with the creation of geoinformation systems. HSRS is one of two Czech members of Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).

HSRS has large experiences with SDI for Urban Planning, it is responsible for management of system and in some cases also for Web hosting for 20 municipalities HSRS is responsible for Czech national metadata and catalogue system, it cooperate on definition of Czech national INSPIRE profile and also on profile for Urban Planning. It is now responsible also for Urban Planning scenario in Humboldt project. As organization working on Czech CLC (2000, 2006), it has also large expertise in this area

International organization for normalization (ISO) defines geomatics as “scientific and technical interdisciplinary branch focused on collecting, distributing, storing, analyzing, processing and presenting of geographical data or geographical information”. It consists of many branches which may be combined to produce detailed, but understandable image of physical world and our role on it. Those branches are: surveying (geodesy and cartography), remote sensing (together with photogrammetry), global positioning systems and GIS.

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia (UWB) is a research institute comprising of two parts: Mathematics section and Geomatics section. Both sections have deep research knowledge in various projects. Department has more then 90 scientists that have rich experiences not only from educational point of view but also from practical based on many years cooperation with authorities on local, regional, national and European level, cadastral offices, mapping agencies and other companies. Department of Mathematics obtained Research Plan MSM 4977751301 from 2005 till 2011. The aim of this Research Plan is to contribute to the development of knowledge of discrete mathematical structures, finding new mathematical methods and development of effective algorithms using these methods.

Geomatics section is focused on geodesy and GIS, cadastre and civil law and cartography. Research activities and coordination of the project Plan4all will be supported by experiences from projects successfully fulfilled or still running (e.g. EU project Humboldt that contributes to the implementation of a European Spatial Data Infrastructure (ESDI), GPS station - network of permanent GPS stations within Czech Republic, Precise models of geoid and quazigeoid in central Europe, Georeferencing and cartographic analyse of historical mapping of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia, Land data models, Progressive collection of geospatial data and its processing).