Special Envoy for Expatriate Affairs met with the management of the Czechoslovak Foreign Institute
09.10.2024 / 16:59 | Aktualizováno: 30.10.2024 / 16:03
On 8 October 2024, Special Envoy for Expatriate Affairs Jiří Krátký met with the management of the Czechoslovak Foreign Institute (ČSÚZ) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, namely with its Chairwoman Hana Hlaváčková and Vice-Chairman and Board Member Tomáš Doležal.
At the beginning of the meeting, Hana Hlaváčková gave a brief overview of the association´s mission, which consists, among other things, in caring for compatriots living abroad and helping to ensure the best possible education for their descendants. She presented proposals for the year 2025 concerning support for educational projects of selected foreign expatriate associations. These included organizing Czech language courses abroad or in Prague, or material equipment for schools and nurceries. Specifically, this concerns the three-week Czech language improvement summer school at the Faculty of Arts Charles University for compatriots, pupils of compatriot schools and students of Czech language studies at foreign universities. In its twenty-eight years of operation, this summer school has been attended by seven hundred participants. At the end of the summer school, participants receive a certificate stating their knowledge of language. As in the previous years, the Association would also like to support the Ferda Mravenec nursery in Daruvar, Croatia, the schools of the School Association in Vienna and others.
At the end of the meeting, Hana Hlaváčková mentioned that the association intends to publish a book about the Czechoslovak Foreign Institute on the occasion of its centenary on 20 December 2028, and that the preparation of the book has already begun and will take three years. The visit concluded with the information that Czech Television plans to make a documentary about the Czechoslovak Foreign Institute.