Links

1) European Union

Official EU web pages

On 1 May 2005, the information centre EUROPE DIRECT was established in Knihovna Jiřího Mahena v Brně (Jiří Mahen Library in Brno) which draws on the activities of the Regional European Information Centre (REIS).

Information sources for agriculture:

• Representation of the European Commission in the Czech Republic
• These web pages provide basic information about the EU, the member states, EU institutions, EU policies, currency, enlargement of the EU, funds and projects supported by the EU (for agriculture e.g. SAPARD, PHARE, etc.), EU documents, events and seminars on the EU held in the CR, etc.
• Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic => Supports from EU and national subsidies
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic => Foreign affairs => The Czech Republic and the EU
• Institute of Agricultural and Food Information  => Agronavigator => EU
• Czech Statistical Office => International data, EU

Other sources of information:

• Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic => EU and foreign countries
• EkoList Online
• EkoList  Online => Evropská unie a životní prostředí (European Union and environment) These web pages provide, among others, basic information on the EU, the EU member states, EU institutions, EU policies, EU legislation, etc.
• Euro Info Centre
• Server of the Ministry of Interior of the Czech Republic -- European Union and the Ministry
• Information services EURODESK
  EURODESK is part of the European network presenting information about EU programs as well as national and regional programs, especially in the fields of education, training and youth activities, and informs about the possibilities to profit from their grants.
• Librarian portal => Civic information
  You can find more interesting web pages about EU here
• Large encyclopedia about EU
• Young Europeans Club
• Europe Union Funds

2) Czech libraries

• Moravian library (Moravská zemská knihovna)
• Institute for agricultural economy and information (Ústav zemědělské ekonomiky a informací - ÚZEI)
• National Technical Library (Národní technická knihovna)
• National Library of the Czech Republic - Union catalogues of the Czech Republic
  (This database contains both foreign and Czech periodicals stored in the funds of Czech libraries and information institutions. Information on purchase and storage of Czech periodicals will be continuously updated.)
• Academy of Sciences Library
• Czech University of Agriculture in Prague
• Library of the Agricultural Faculty of South-Czech University
• Central library VŠB-TU Ostrava
• Library of Palacky University in Olomouc
• Czech Technical University in Prague

3) Bus and train timetables

• Bus and train connections
• Brno City Public Transport Office

4) Encyclopedias and dictionaries

• English - Czech/ Czech - English Dictionary of Mathematical Terminology
• Praktický slovník medicíny (Practical Medical Dictionary) by M. Vokurka and J. Hugo
• Laboratorní encyklopedie (Laboratory Encyclopedia) - encyclopedia of science, engineering and laboratory terminology
• Multilingual online dictionary
• Mathematical dictionary
  (Czech - English dictionary of mathematical words and expressions)
• English - Czech dictionary
  (Online translation dictionary)

5) Other interesting web pages

• Free Medical Journals
  (Online access to full-text articles in the selected medical journals)
• FAOSTAT
  (Statistical information on agricultural production in the world)
• Agrarian www portal
• Agricultural Research Institute Kroměříž, Ltd.
• DERS, s. r. o.
  (data Development of database applications and customary software, statistical processing, seminars and IT consultations.)
• Ministry of Justice of the Czech Republic - Companies register
• Official server of Czech judicial system
  (Among others, the server contains links to companies register, Ministry of Justice, courts, Prosecutor's offices, etc.)
• Czech Standards Institute
• Collections of laws of the Czech Republic
• Czech Information System
  (Lists, search engines, portals, address books, databases, downloads, domains, web page registrations, information, information centers, associations)
• Official web pages of the city of Brno
  
• Czech Post
• Information on drugs and illnesses