Czech Centres and EUNIC

The Czech Centres have been a EUNIC member since its establishment in 2006. The EUNIC membership helps to strengthen the prestige of Czechia in international cultural projects and enables the benefits of the exchange of expert knowledge and experience as well as the funding from the network. All the Czech Centres branches are members of local EUNIC clusters which can be found on a map here. Directors of the Czech Centres often take part in running of the clusters at the position of president or vice-president. In 2024 the Czech Centres directors preside in the following EUNIC clusters: Sofia and Belgrade.

Czech Centres Headquarters in EUNIC – Focal Point

Czech Centres Headquarters has a vital role within the EUNIC network as it acts as a Focal Point for Czechia. Each EUNIC Global member has its own Focal Point who acts as a representative of member organization appointed for close cooperation and communication on EUNIC activities. Besides the task to inform local EUNIC members about news within the EUNIC network, the Focal Point is the primary link between a given region/country and the EUNIC Office in Brussels. As Focal Point the Czech Centres Headquarters can hold knowledge sharing workshops for the rest of the network - in 2019 the international knowledge sharing workshop on monitoring and evaluation with focus on cultural relations was held in Prague. Besides that the Czech Centres Headquarters closely cooperates with local EUNIC cluster Prague and takes part in several joint projects.

EUNIC Focal Points Meeting ve Vallettě, květen 2022 © Darren Agius

Czech Centres in EUNIC Board

Every two years the EUNIC Board is elected which plays a role of executive body of EUNIC. The Board is managed by president and vice-president of EUNIC who are elected as well. The Czech Centres were strongly represented in the EUNIC Board throughout the years 2022–2023 when the director general Ondřej Černý was part of the Board, later as vice-president. The current composition of the EUNIC Board can be found here.

EUNIC Board na General Assembly v Mnichově, červen 2022 © Loredana La Rocca

Representative offices of Czechia in EUNIC network

The Czech Centres Headquarters as a Focal Point can confer full membership of EUNIC to the representative offices of Czechia to represent Czechia in EUNIC clusters in places where the Czech Centres are not present yet. It means that the representative offices can become cluster members, preside at the cluster and take part in joint cluster projects. The representative offices are authorized by the director general of the Czech Centres. Following Czech embassies and consulates are authorized to act in the EUNIC clusters:


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