education

A recent analysis by the Czech Statistical Office found that children from low-income families often remain in the lower income brackets as adults. Over a third of those who experienced childhood financial hardship continue to be among the least wealthy. Klára Votavová, an Associate Research Fellow at EUROPEUM Institute, discussed why Czechia struggles with persistent poverty and the impact of education on social status in an interview for Czech Radio.

Education is one of the topics on the agenda ahead of the upcoming elections to the European Parliament. The Member States themselves should increase the amount of funding flowing into schools. For example, the recognition of university diplomas, could be worked on. Zuzana Krulichová, a researcher at EUROPEUM Institute, described the issue for the main evening broadcast of TV Nova.

In his latest blog, Márk Szabó focuses on the topic of a divided society in Europe and, above all, on the question of how this phenomenon is affected by nationalism and education.

EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy kindly invites you to another Café Evropa Online. On Thursday of the 26th March, we shall discuss the topic of the Modernization of Czech education - what's the future of the education in digital era?

Karel Barták published an EU Monitor, in which he focuses on the question if the size of Erasmus+ will determine the EU ambition in education.

Festival of Democracy, Václav Havel Library and EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy would like to cordially invite you to the discussion about Czech education and democracy. The event takes place on Tuesday, October 15th.

Our Milan Urbaník published policy paper about Increasing attractiveness of teaching profession in the Czech Republic.

We organized another Civil Servant Mobility Program study trip from February 13 to February 18, 2017. The project, realized within the Think Visegrad platform, was focused on sharing experience in the field of educational management in the Czech Republic with a selected civil servants from Ukraine. The group consisted of three directors of schools from three Ukrainian regions.

EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy organized another Civil Servant Mobility Program study trip from October 23 to 29, 2016. The project, realized within the Think Visegrad platform, was focused on sharing experience in the field of educational management in the Czech Republic with a selected civil servants from Ukraine. The group consisted of four directors of schools in various Ukrainian regions and two local officials who deal with the topic of education.

A group of international students from the University of Oslo visited EUROPEUM on the 20th of October 2016.

A group of international students of the master's programme Euroculture at the University of Göttingen visited EUROPEUM.

You can now read summary of the thirteenth European Summer School which took place last July.