Currently local authorities are very active in conducting surveys on cultural activities and participation in culture. They use the information obtained from the surveys to develop local cultural policies. Another example are studies connected to specific cultural events on the local level, such as ‘Research on the Informedness, Attitudes, and Participation of the Residents of the City of Pilsen in the Project “Pilsen – European Culture Capital”’ (2015-2016, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen), which focused on cultural consumption in relation to Pilsen as a European Culture Capital in 2015. There are also studies that are conducted on the national... read more →
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If you are not happy with the results below please do another searchThe transformation of cultural funds to foundations occurred in 1993 and 1994; it was based on the Act on the Transformation of Cultural Funds, whereby they were denationalised. These included the Czech Literary Fund Foundation, the Czech Music Fund Foundation and the Czech Art Fund Foundation. Foundations obtain their money from estate yields (immovables), from donations and from sponsor subsidies. The Czech Literary Fund Foundation is currently one of the few alternatives for supporting new valuable works of original literature and translation, theatre, film, journalism, science, radio, television, and entertainment. The foundation allocates grants for publishing or creating non-commercial literature,... read more →
Creative work is indirectly supported in the field of film under the Programme of Support for the Film Industry (since 2010). Support for individual artists and cultural workers is very limited compared with the support for cultural institutions –the Ministry of Culture’s grant/tender competitions are usually open only to individuals who have a trade licence in the field of culture, or support is given indirectly, for instance in the form of a grant to support the publishing of literary works, where the grant applicant is a publishing house and a fee is then passed to the author. The only direct... read more →
In the CR are two types of contributory organisation: organisations established by the state and governed by Act No. 218/2000 Coll. on Budget Rules and on Changes to Some Related Acts as Amended; and organisations established by a regional authority in conformity with Act No. 250/2000 Coll. on the Budget Rules of Regional Budgets and Act No. 129/2000 Coll. on the Regions, as Amended, or organisations established by a town in conformity with Act No. 128/2000 Coll. on Municipalities as Amended. Czech public cultural institutions, and foremost among them the Association of Professional Theatres, has long been advocating for the... read more →
The Culture Account of the CR (see also chapter 3.5.1., 6.3. and 7.1.1.) breaks down private expenditures on culture into household expenditures on culture and other private sources of funding for culture (from for-profit organisations, i.e. businesses, and non-profit organisations). Expenditures of households on culture are presented in chapter 6.3. In the framework of other private sources of funding for culture (which amount to almost two-thirds of all resources), the most important sources are financial and non-financial businesses (157.6 billion CZK) and non-governmental organisations (3.0 billion CZK). As regards the distribution of resources to individual sectors, other private sources of... read more →
The Act on Establishing Ministries and other Central Administrative Bodies, dating from 1969, clarifies the responsibilities of the Ministry of Culture (see also 1.2.2). Regulations were created to apply to the field of culture in general, and not to focus specifically on one discipline, and were introduced under Act No. 203/2006 Coll. on Some Kinds of Cultural Support and Amendments to Related Regulations. This Act defines the term ‘public cultural service’ and it covers some kinds of state support; for example, it specifies the newly introduced term ‘contribution for creative and study purposes’, which enables selection procedures for scholarships for... read more →
The Czech Republic (CR) is administratively divided into central (state), regional (regions), and local (municipalities) levels. The central level, the Ministry of Culture (MC), is responsible for the preparation of the majority of legislative norms in the field of culture. Overall competence in this area is allocated according to the MC by Act No. 2/1969 Coll. on Establishing Ministries and Other Central Administration Bodies of the CR, the so-called Competence Act (see also chapter 1.2.2). Act No. 129/2000 Coll. on Regions states the legal position of regions and it determines that a region supports the universal development of its territory... read more →
In the past decade discussion has largely revolved around the issue of the amount of support for culture provided by the state, which has been reduced several times and only in recent years has begun to increase again. This complex situation has not benefited either from the fact that there has been a substantial increase in VAT in recent years. Since January 2012 the lower VAT rate has risen from 10% to 14%, the list of items subject to VAT has remained unchanged. The basic rate remained at 20%. The rate was supposed to be changed to a uniform 17.5%... read more →
On 3 October 2018 the Government of the CR adopted Resolution No. 629 on the Digital Czechia programme and proposed changes to the Statute of the Government Council for an Information Society. The programme’s steering body is the Government Council for an Information Society, which is headed by the government commissioner for information technology and digitisation. The Government Council for an Information Society was set up in 2014 and it is the Government of the CR’s initiating and coordinating body in the area of reform of public administration, the information society, the digital agenda, eGovernment, and information and communication technologies.... read more →
The previous State Cultural Policy for 2015-2020 included for the first time as one of its priorities support for access to culture and the development of participative culture to facilitate social integration. The Concept of Support for the Arts for 2015-2020 identified as a new issue the social or societal impacts of the arts and contains the first mention in a strategic document of the importance of this issue in comparison with the economic impacts that have had the priority focus up to now. The new State Cultural Policy for 2021-2025+ also considers one of its objectives to be "to... read more →