Centrum Veronica Hostětín Hostetin Centre for Sustainable Rural Development

The Hostetin Centre for Sustainable Rural Development is located in Hostetin village, Zlin province, in the White Carpathian Mountains, southeast Czech Republic. The centre is managed by the NGO the Ecological Institute Veronica (EIV), a branch of the Czech Association of Nature Conservation. It is intended as an educational centre, showing that an environmental attitude and using local resources and traditions can economically stabilize the countryside and create job opportunities, even in very distant areas. Unlike the traditional educational centres, the village and its surroundings serve as an ideal ”laboratory” for practical ecological education. It follows up on a number of pilot projects realized in Hostětín and the region of Bílé Karpaty over the last two decades.