Czech firms do investigation for the European Parliament

STOA is an official organ of the European Parliament, responsible for technology assessment. Oldřich Vlasák, European Parliament Vice-President responsible for STOA is from the Czech Republic. An increasing number of Czech firms are doing investigation for the EP, he said. STOA’s carries out expert, independent assessments of the impact of new technologies and identifies long-term, strategic policy options useful to the Parliament's committees in their policy-making role. STOA works in partnership with external experts, such as research institutes, universities, laboratories, consultancies or individual researchers contracted to help prepare specific projects. Its focus is on round table expert discussions, conferences and workshops with associated or consequent studies. Members of Parliament and invited experts from EU institutions, international institutions, universities, specialist institutes, academies and other sources of expertise worldwide jointly participate in the analysis of current issues at these events.