Czech Centres is a governmental agency established by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Czech Centres provides a wide range of promotion for Czech culture as part of serving the mission of developing a cultural dialogue between the Czech Republic and other countries in the areas including culture, science, education, trade, and tourism. Czech Centres actively works to enhance positive reputation and image of the Czech Republic abroad, namely in the public diplomacy. There are only few organizations which operate in so many countries all over the world. There are 24 Czech Centres globally operating in 21 countries. Furthermore, in 2006, another Czech Centre opened in Prague in order to present the activities of Czech Centres to the inhabitants of the Czech Republic. The Czech Centre Prague supports the Czech public to be acquainted with foreign artists and cooperates with cultural institutions of the Czech Republic. The program provided by Czech Centres brings together cultural traditions and contemporary artistic development not only in music, fine arts, cinematography, architecture, design, photography, but also in education and social area. Projects implemented by
the Czech Centres focus on presenting the Czech Republic as a brand; they present the creative potential of the contemporary cultural scenes of Czech abroad and work in active cooperation with the organizations of cultural events bringing Czech and local cultures in different countries together.