The innovation journey

Toulcůvdvůris a multifunctional company. It focuses on ecological education for schools and teachers, besides including an organic shop. It organizes professional events, family-focused activities and interest groups. It has a pet farm designed to save the gene pool (Noah’s Ark Project). It is also the training centre of the Czech Hiporehabilitation Society. It employs disabled people, who are responsible for the management and maintenance of its premises, a healthy dining room, a ceramic workshop and gardening. The campus has been leased from the Capital City of Prague for 50 years.

The president of the association is M.Sc. Lenka Skoupá since 2009. She is 52 and comes from the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands. She studied zootechnics at the Czech University of Life Sciences. She is divorced and has two children. She has always been interested in small animals (rabbits, poultry, pigeons), to which she devotes her publishing and lecturing activities. So far, she has published three popular scientific books among others. The centre consists of a complex of heritage-protected buildings and a 10-hectare natural area, including an orchard, fields, meadows, a floodplain forest and a wetland. The activities are provided by the non-profit organization SRAZ, Botič, social enterprise ENVIRA (which meets the condition of substitute performance), and the ecological Kindergarten Semínko.