Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health (www.segh.net)
State Geological Institute of Dionýz Štúr, Bratislava, Slovakia (www.geology.sk/new/en) – the local organizing institution of the 31st International Conference of the Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health in 2015 – was established in 1940 and performs the tasks of the State Geological Survey of the Slovak Republic. As a state contributory organization it is supervised by the Ministry of Environment of the Slovak Republic. Its activities focus mainly on solutions of geological research and exploration projects, creation and application of the information system in geology, registration, collection, evidence and making the results of geological works carried out at the territory of the Slovak Republic available to the public. SGIDS provides independent expertise, lecturing, consulting and advisory activities and compiles the input documents for the state administration. Our organization successfully organized the SEGH conference as early as in 2006 and has also long-term experience in organizing a number of international meetings and workshops.
The conference is organized under the auspices of Ministry of Environment of the Slovak Republic.
project GEOHEALTH (www.geology.sk/geohealth/?lang=en) financed under the programme LIFE+ (ec.europa.eu/environment/life/funding/lifeplus.htm) and co-finaced by Ministry of the Environment of the Slovak Republic (www.minzp.sk/en/)