The National Heritage Institute, in all of its activities, naturally cooperates with a number of various organisations and individuals.
One of its main activities is the preparation of written materials for decision-making organs of state administration in the field of heritage management, as per the heritage law. This requires direct cooperation with authorities (i.e. with municipalities with extended competence, with regional authorities or with the Ministry of Culture, according to the nature of the case to be resolved). Furthermore, NPU experts meet with officers of these authorities during local investigations, ongoing monitoring of renovation projects, negotiations of documentation, and during consultations with owners or designers. Mutual cooperation in specialist events - methodological days, seminars or conferences - is also beneficial.
Cooperation is also essential for negotiating long-term projects for towns and municipalities in preparing planning permission, especially for sites on whose territory National Monuments or several conservation areas are found, i.e. heritage reservations or heritage zones, but it is also just as important for all the other municipalities, on whose territory cultural heritage or heritage buffer zones are found.
Cooperation with Regions
The cooperation with regions corresponds to the regional structure of the NPU. A department of the NPU (UOP NPU) operates in each region of the Czech Republic, in most cases directly in the town that is the seat of the region. In several cases, where it was expedient, the seat of the regional department lies in another town; in each case a town with a significant heritage reservation was chosen instead, so that the owners of the buildings in the reservation would have more accessible consultation opportunities (for example in the Karlovy Vary region, where the headquarters is in Loket, or the Hradec Kralove region, where it is in Josefov, or the Vysočina, where it is in Telč, or the Zlin Region, where it is in Kroměřiž).
The level of cooperation with the regions - which generally means with their regional authority - varies depending on the region's priorities. As a rule it is cooperation in the area of the distribution of financial resources for the renovation of cultural heritage, whether in the form of consultation, or the participation of NPU's experts in regional committees. The NPU is involved in many regional events, either directly or through the involvement of some of their staff in preparing programs or related materials.
NPU - UOP executives are often invited to meetings that regional authorities organise for officials executing state heritage management in municipalities with extended competence, so they can jointly discuss several current topics.
Cooperation with Universities
The National Heritage Institute cooperates regularly with universities. Most often it is through direct participation of experts in university courses and educational programmes dealing with heritage care; similarly, many leading professors at universities lecture either at educational heritage care courses organised by the NPU, or participate in special events that the NPU organises. The joint organisation of these events is a matter of course.