Czech Centres

The Ceske Centrum ( Czech Center ) is a Czech Cultural Institute, whose aim is to promote the Czech language and culture abroad.

Tasks and objectives

The cultural institutions are under the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs and are part of foreign cultural policy. Your missions are to promote cultural and economic contacts with foreign countries as well as the presentation of a positive image of the Czech Republic as a modern and dynamic nation. In addition to a cultural program, the centers offer tourist and economic information on the country, leading Czech courses and have libraries. The headquarters of the Czech Centres is located in Prague. Director General of the Czech Centres is Jaroslav Kantůrek.

The Czech Centres went in 1993 after the split of Czechoslovakia from existing in some states of the Warsaw Pact since the 1950s, cultural and information centers out. Since then, Czech centers in several Western European countries and the U.S., Japan and Argentina were opened.

The Institute in Berlin is a founding member of the Association of European Cultural Institutes in Berlin, which has risen in the EUNIC (Association of National Cultural Institutions in the European Union) in 2007.

Locations

There are a total of 22 centers in 20 states. In Germany there are three centers in Berlin, Dusseldorf and Munich; the center in Dresden was closed in March 2010.

• Czech Center Berlin
• Czech Centre Bratislava
• Czech Centre Brussels
• Czech Centre Budapest
• Czech Centre Bucharest
• Czech Centre The Hague
• Czech Centre Dusseldorf
• Czech Centre Kiev
• Czech Centre London
• Czech Centre Madrid
• Czech Centre Milan
• Czech Centre Moscow
• Czech Center Munich
• Czech Center New York
• Czech Centre Paris
• Czech Centre Prague
• Czech Center Seoul
• Czech Centre Sofia
• Czech Centre Stockholm
• Czech Centre Tel Aviv
• Czech Centre Tokyo
• Czech Centre Vienna