Czech center
The České Centrum (German Czech Center ) is a Czech cultural institute whose aim is to promote the Czech language and culture abroad.
tasks and goals
The cultural institutes are subordinate to the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs and are part of foreign cultural policy. Its tasks are to promote cultural and economic contacts abroad and to convey 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 about the country, run Czech courses and have libraries. The headquarters of the Czech Centers are in Prague . The General Director of the Czech Centers is Ondřej Černý.
The Czech Centers emerged in 1993 after the division of Czechoslovakia from the cultural and information centers that had existed in some Warsaw Pact states since the 1950s . Since then, Czech Centers have been opened in several Western European countries as well as the USA, Japan and Argentina.
The institute in Berlin is a founding member of the Association of European Cultural Institutes in Berlin, which in 2007 was merged into the Association of National Cultural Institutes in the European Union (EUNIC).
Locations
There are a total of 22 centers in 20 states. In Germany there are three centers in Berlin, Düsseldorf and Munich; the center in Dresden was closed in March 2010.
- Czech Center Berlin
- Czech Center Bratislava
- Czech Center Brussels
- Czech Center Budapest
- Czech Center Bucharest
- Czech Center The Hague
- Czech Center Düsseldorf
- Czech Center Kiev
- Czech Center London
- Czech Center Madrid
- Czech Center Milan
- Czech Center Moscow
- Czech Center Munich
- Czech Center New York
- Czech center Paris
- Czech center Prague
- Czech Center Seoul
- Czech Center Sofia
- Czech Center Stockholm
- Czech Center Tel Aviv
- Czech Center Tokyo
- Czech Center Warsaw
- Czech Center Vienna
Individual evidence
- ^ History. (No longer available online.) In: Czech Centers. Archived from the original on September 14, 2013 ; accessed on June 9, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Síť Českých Center. In: Czech Centers. Retrieved June 8, 2013 (Czech, Network of Czech Centers).
- ↑ Iris Riedel: In Dresden it's time to say goodbye. Czech center is closed. In: Český rozhlas. March 7, 2010, accessed June 8, 2013 .
Web links
- www.czechcentres.cz (cz / en)