News from our region

Starting next year, young overseers, U/G mechanics and preparation mechanics for OKD mines will be preparing for their jobs at the Secondary School of Technology and Services (SŠTaS) at Karviná. ... more

OSTRAVA – The Association for the Development of the Moravskoslezský region elected a new board at its last meeting. The Chairman is Pavel Bartoš and Ján Fabián, the OKD Director for Strategic Development was elected Vice-chairman.... more

OSTRAVA– Last year reclamation works were performed under the leadership of OKD in a total area of 860 hectares. OKD expended CZK 265 million for such works... more

OSTRAVA – On 17 February 2011, the Confederation of Industry and Transport of the Czech Republic organized a roundtable meeting in cooperation with PricewaterhouseCoopers in the Mining University in Ostrava in order for representatives of significant Czech companies... more

OSTRAVA – Last year the St. Barbara Civil Association donated almost CZK 3.2 million to help the children who had lost their fathers due to work injuries. In compliance with the organization’s policy, most funds aimed at supporting the education.... more

REGION – The black coal mining, though taking place hundreds of meters under the ground, significantly impacts the landscape above ground. Ironically, the landscape relief is even more created by subsequent reclamation the aim of which is to obliterate the footprints of mining activities.... more

OSTRAVA – An audience of fifteen thousand people, celebrating the twelfth birthday of Radio Čas in the ČEZ Arena on the Day of St. Barbara, the miners’ patroness, consisted of all generations.... more

FRÝDEK-MÍSTEK – Petr Filipec, a Staříč Mine bottom cager, repeated his last year’s success, and having reached the finish line with the time of 33 minutes and 58 seconds, he became the winner of the jubilee 25th edition of the Miners’s Ten running races in the OKD category.... more

KARVINÁ – On Thursday, September 30 already before 9:00 a.m., Milan Kupka’s band welcomed the visitors to the Doors Open Day, organized on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Secondary School of Technologies and Services existence in Karviná.... more

OSTRAVA – The election of Marta Szamaránská for the Committee member, mothers’ possibility to be engaged in the Association’s activities, increase of the help for children and of the contributions to cover the study costs by one half to CZK 1.1 million, computers or notebooks to be provided already from the seventh class of the elementary school, contributions to cover the Internet costs, positive business balance. These were the key events in the St. Barbara Civil Association.... more