Jozef Síkela, Minister of Industry and Trade   Can you briefly introduce us the Ministry of Industry and Trade?  The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MIT) is the central state administration body for industrial, energy and raw materials policies, trade policy in the context of the EU Internal Market, pro-export policy, consumer rights protection, support […]

  Mr. Jaroslav Hanák, President of The Confederation of Industry of the Czech Republic   Can you briefly introduce us to The Confederation of Industry of the Czech Republic? The Confederation of Industry is the largest and most influential independent employers’ and business umbrella organisation in the Czech Republic representing more than 11,000 companies that employ […]

Ivan Bartoš, Deputy Prime Minister for Digitisation and Minister of Regional Development   As a Minister responsible, among others, for regional development, I will focus during the Czech Presidency on Cohesion Policy as a very important European investment tool helping Member States and their regions to develop. I would like to provide the EU with […]

The Czech Republic has always been at the heart of Europe.   Michal Fleischmann, Ambassador of the Czech Republic to France   The virtual transfer of the torch» of the French Presidency of the EU Council and the Czech Republic in Paris took place on the 30th. June on the Trocadéro esplanade with behind the Eiffel […]

2022, a Franco-Czech year for Europe French Ambassador in Czechia Alexis Dutertre Although relations between France and the Czech Republic are ancient, the partnership between our two countries has been amplified, immeasurably, by the succession of our presidencies of the Council of the European Union in 2022. We have never worked together as much as […]

Michal Pěchouček, Chairman of the Executive Board of prg.ai   Can you briefly introduce us to prg.ai?  prg.ai was founded in 2019 by academics from the Czech Technical University, Charles University, and the Czech Academy of Sciences, with a significant contribution provided by the City of Prague. This synergy of human and institutional resources is […]

Despite being the new engines of growth for economies, startups are particularly hard to build even more so when the founders are technical first-time founders with no business experiences. For this reason, a new category of investors was created in the mid-2000’s to specifically help those with technical skills and great ambitions. Going by the […]

Mr. Richard PAVLICA, President of the Czech Space Alliance (CSA)   1/        Can you briefly introduce us to The CSA and your missions?  The Czech Space Alliance (CSA) is an industry association of, and for, Czech space companies with proven skills and track record in aerospace business, and with broad international client base. The alliance […]

  The Ministry of Culture, pursuant to Section 8 of Act No. 2/1969 Coll., on the Establishment of Ministries and Other Central Government Authorities of the Czech Republic, as amended, is the central body of state administration for arts, cultural education, cultural heritage, affairs of churches and religious societies, press matters, including the publication of […]

Vladimír Balaš, Minister for Education, Youth and Sport Czech Priorities in the area of Education, Youth, Sport, and Research – Opportunity for “New Europe”   The Czech Republic takes over the Presidency at unprecedented times. The world has not yet fully recovered from the Covid-19 pandemics when the barbaric Russian aggression against Ukraine changed the geopolitics […]