The project is intended to enable the Research Centre of the Institute of Environmental Technologies (IET) to achieve competitive quality of research on an international scale. The IET Centre, which is the university institute of VŠB-Technical University Ostrava, was established with the support of OP R & DPI in 2011-13. The project builds on IET’s research activities by developing research activities in the field of environmental technologies – technologies for material and energy use of waste and technologies for reducing pollutants in the living environment. a.