The Team

Scientists, experts, and institutions from 10 countries already joined the team.

Thanks to the diversity of expertise we strive to deliver a full package: the question of effective regeneration - observation - research - scientific hypothesis - tests - data analysis and applied scientific approach in a scaled up solution.

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Core team

Vlado ZAUJEC
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & CO-FOUNDER

Ing. Vladimír Zaujec, PMP, MSP studied at the University of Economics, Bratislava, Slovakia specializing in information technologies. Worked as a project and program manager mainly within the IT industry. Co-founder of several novelty start-ups and ecology-based NGOs, including GreenGang and the Restore Climate movement.

Eva BERDISOVÁ
PROGRAM MANAGER

Mrg. Eva Berdisová, completed studies at Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Management, and Faculty of Natural Science specializing in Environmental Geochemistry. She worked as Environmental Officer for private and government organizations. She worked as a Project and Programme manager for EU development projects, in the Education sector and in the IT industry. She is volunteering for and supporting local environmental and sustainability initiatives.

Jan POKORNÝ
CO-AUTHOR OF 'WATER FOR RECOVERY OF THE CLIMATE'

Doc. Ing. Jan Pokorný, CSC. completed his studies at the Natural Sciences Faculty at Charles University in Prague. He is the director of beneficial society ENKI, a scientific staffer at the Institute for System Biology and Ecology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, the co-author of a number of patents, a university lecturer, a member of the international scientific panel of the natural Resources Commision for the Australian government and a member of the scientific technology panel of the Ramsar Convention on Westlands for Central and Eastern Europe.

Martin KOVÁČ
CO-AUTHOR OF 'WATER FOR RECOVERY OF THE CLIMATE'

Ing. Martin Kováč studied at the University of Economics, Bratislava, Slovakia specializing in information technologies. Worked as a project and program manager mainly within IT industry. Co-founder of several novelty start-ups and ecology-based NGOs, including Rain for Climate.

Michal PAAL
IT ARCHITECT AND DRONE SPECIALIST

Ivan MATUŠEK
SENSOR DEVELOPMENT AND DATA PROCESSING

RNDr. Ivan MATUŠEK studied nuclear chemistry at the Comenius University in Bratislava. Is a certified project manager IPMA B. He was a researcher focused on the impacts of nuclear infrastructure decommissioning.
In the field of ecology, he is currently focused on lysimetric research, studying the impacts of global climate change on the environment and the impacts of contaminated soil on the quality of the food chain and groundwater sources.

Peter BUJŇÁK
CONSULTANT

Mgr. Peter Bujňák studied political economy at York University in Toronto, Canada before making his way to Europe. He first came across the role of water in climate change during his masters studies at Linkoping University in Sweden where he wrote his thesis on the political economy of water scarcity in the 21st century. After completing his studies, he came to his home country of Slovakia where he participated in the integrated water management program of the Slovak government. He coauthored several EU and Norway Grants financed projects.

Martin KALMÁR
FOREIGN LANGUAGES TRANSLATION

Ing. Martin Kalmár completed his studies at the Matej Bel University, Faculty of economics. Works in finance and is active as a translator in his spare time. He is in charge of the localization to English and Spanish languages.

Scientific advisory board and subject matter experts

prof. Mooyoung HAN

Prof. Mooyoung HAN is a professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at SNU and the director of Rainwater Research Center at SNU. He received the AEESP outstanding paper award with his coagulation theory on water treatment. He is a fellow member of International Water Association (IWA) and a chairman of Rainwater Harvesting and Management specialist group in IWA. He has made several “Rainwater for Drinking” projects in developing countries, authored many papers on rainwater management and resource-oriented sanitation.

prof. Marco Schmidt

prof. Marco Schmidt studied Landscape Architecture/ Environmental Planning at the Technische Universität Berlin. He worked on various urban ecological demonstration projects; the main focus is the evaluation of buildings especially energy efficiency strategies, the urban heat island effect, and climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies which focus on evaporative cooling. Since 1992 he does research activities at the Technical University of Berlin on developing best practice in ecological, energy efficient construction, urban ecology, applied hydrology and stormwater management. Since 2016 is he also employed at the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs, and Spatial Development.

Assoc. prof. Eva Pauditšová

RNDr. Jaroslav Rožnovský

RNDr. Jaroslav Rožnovský, CSc.

is studies at the Matej Bel University, Faculty of economics. Works in finance and is active as a translator in his spare time. He is in charge of the localization to English and Spanish languages.

Anastassia Makarieva, PhD.

Peter Andrews, OAM. is founding father of Natural Sequence Farming (NSF) methodology in Australia. In 2013 Peter was awarded the Order of Australia for his contribution to the environment and sustainable farming. Author of ‘Back from the Brink’ and ‘Beyond the Brink’, describing the unique management processes, components and efficiencies of Australia’s water and fertility. Peter Andrew is a farmer and horse breeder, an ecological observer, self-taught naturalist with geospatial intelligence, a complex, open systems scientist.

Peter ANDREWS, OEM.

Dip. Sust. Mngt. Duane NORRIS

B. Sc. Agr., Dip. Sust. Mgmt. Duane Norris, N.C.H., SCCH. graduated from University of Sydney, Faculty of Agriculture. Studied rainforest ecology, sustainability and landscape design. Member of the International Reference Panel on NSF. Currently, running and delivering training courses based on heuristic learning to farmers about NSF. Co-author of ‘Re-coupling the carbon and water cycles by Natural Sequence Farming’ in International Journal of Water 2010.

Dr. Ibo ZIMMERMAN

Dr. Ibo Zimmermann teaches Agroecology, Rangeland Management, and Dryland Permaculture Design at the Namibia University of Science and Technology. Much of the learning takes place in the field, involving students in the planning, implementation, and monitoring of land rehydration to support diversified production.

Brock DOLMAN, BA

Brock Dolman, BA. is a wildlife biologist and internationally recognized as an innovative watershed restoration ecologist and permaculture designer. Since 1995 he has co-instructed over 60 Permaculture Design Courses in the USA and internationally, including two International Permaculture Convergence PDC’s: IPC8 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and IPC11 in Pinar del Rio, Cuba. Over the past two decades, he has worked as a permaculture designer and watershed restoration consultant internationally in Mexico, Costa Rica, Ecuador, U.S. Virgin Islands, Spain, Brazil, China/Tibet, Canada, Zimbabwe, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cuba, Haiti, Malaysia, Nicaragua and widely in the U.S.A. He has been featured in the award-winning films.

Minni JAIN

Minni Jain Is the co-founder of The Flow Partnership which works in partnership with a rich and diverse global network of communities, people, and projects using holistic approaches to water management for real, demonstrable improvements in their communities and landscapes. Minni focuses on bringing unlikely combinations of people together, connecting and supporting them and facilitating the needed action for a change in the system. She is also a Trustee of the Agroforestry Research Trust, an Editor of the Holistic Science Journal and a Board member of the Berkana Institute/USA.

Philip FRANCES

Philip Frances is Senior Lecturer on the Masters in Holistic Science at Schumacher College, UK. Philip studied mathematics at New College, Oxford, UK. He came to Schumacher College and had worked to develop the field of Holistic Science alongside with Brian Goodwin, Henri Bortoft amongst others. He is the author of Time, Light and the Dice of Creation: Through Paradox in Physics to a New Order and also the founding editor of the Holistic Science Journal.

Bernd WALTER MüLLER

Bernd W. Mueller is an international consultant for ecosystem restoration and regenerative water managment, director of the Global Ecology Institute in Tamera, Portugal. He managed an organic farm in Spain. There he studied natural processes through intense observation. He discovered a new, more subtle possibility of cooperation between man and nature. From 2006, he has lived in Tamera, Portugal working in the landscape design and building Water Retention Landscapes. Today he transfers the insights from this process of self-education into the practical development of ecological models for landscape healing and the restoration of the Earth.

Landscape Climate Impact Point of Excellence

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Technical University Berlin, Germany

Institute for Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning

Seoul National University,
Korea

Rainwater Research Center at the Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea

Barani Design Technologies, USA

Barani Design Technologies manufactures innovative weather stations and professional meteorological sensors.

ENKI o.p.s.,
Czech Republic

Privately held public service company acts among others also as landscape management research entity.

National Agricultural and Food Centre - RIPP, Slovakia

Reserch center focusing on actors that condition and influence the quantity and quality of yields, including alternative forms.

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Global partner network

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Natural Sequence Farming

Natural Sequence Farming (NSF) is a rural landscape management technique aimed at restoring natural water cycles that allow the land to flourish despite drought conditions. NSF offers a low-cost, widely applicable method of reducing drought severity and boosting productivity on Australia’s farms and landscapes. The technique is based on ecological principles, low input requirements and natural cycling of water and nutrients to make the land more resilient.

Tarwyn Park Training

Tarwyn Park Training developed the internationally recognised Natural Sequence Farming, a technique of regenerative farming and land care. A system of farming, which focuses on implementing natural landscape function back into degraded landscapes. Tarwyn Park Training began as a way for landholders throughout Australia to learn about Natural Sequence Farming and how it is implemented into farming systems, as we know them. The implementation of Natural Sequence Farming is important for the future stability and productivity of degrading farmland, to ensure that it becomes an aggrading system for generations to come.

Mulloon Consulting, Contracting and Certifying

is a specialist natural resource consultancy delivering innovative landscape rehydration projects to Australian landholders. Our approach to re-establishing the natural function, fertility and resilience of agricultural landscapes incorporates the work of various ground-breaking regenerative farmers including Peter Andrews OAM. Key benefits of a rehydrated landscape is one that is able to harvest more water as it’s cooler with more green surface area, can hold more water due to increased soil carbon, and uses the available water more effectively resulting in increased primary production.

Community Action in the Climate Emergency

CACE’s campaign is focused on getting councils to declare a Climate Emergency and implement a council based Climate Emergency response. The Climate Emergency Declaration Campaign is ultimately focused on getting all levels of government to Declare a Climate Emergency and implement a Climate Emergency response. Through council leadership, community education and positive action, state and federal governments will be forced to follow suit to meet growing community demand for real action to reverse global warming.

Community Action in the Climate Emergency

Occidental Arts and Ecology Center

is an 80-acre research, demonstration, education, advocacy and community-organizing center in West Sonoma County, California that develops strategies for regional-scale community resilience and the restoration of biological and cultural diversity. The WATER Institute develops innovative science-based solutions for communities and the environment to address the legacy of hydrologically destructive land-use practices and policies on California’s watersheds, and the urgent need to address the impacts of climate change on the water cycle.

Global Ecology Institute

Currently a community of around 200, working towards autonomous decentralized models for a post-capitalist world, with those who share our vision of Terra Nova.

Kiss the Ground

is a 501 charity based in Venice, California, USA.

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