Two projects for minorities and foreigners in Prague
HarmonyConnect and Czech Together are our two projects for national minorities and foreigners in Prague, with a focus on the Taiwanese community. In 2025 Czech Together was funded by the City of Prague. We run weekly meetings, free Czech lessons, five festival workshops a year and stalls at three festivals.
HarmonyConnect
Supporting national minorities in Prague
Integration and support of the national minorities living in Prague, with a special focus on the Taiwanese community. The aim is an inclusive environment where minorities stay connected to their own culture while taking an active part in Czech society.
- Regular meetings and open doors
- Weekly meetings for mothers with children, newcomers and existing members. A space for mutual support, sharing information and friendship.
- Volunteering
- Charity sales and ad-hoc fundraisers, for example for victims of natural disasters, connect the minority with the majority society.
- Community library
- More than 600 books in Mandarin, over 300 for adults and over 300 for children. Open once a month and run by volunteers.
- Book club
- Seasonal meetings over favourite books. A safe space for cultural exchange.
- Mandarin teaching
- Courses for children from the minority, so that they stay in touch with their roots, and courses for the wider public.
Czech Together
City of Prague 2025 programme supporting national minorities and the integration of foreigners
Supporting the integration of foreigners through cultural and community activities that strengthen understanding between minorities and the majority: regular meetings, language courses, cultural workshops, festivals and volunteering.
- Czech: conversation group
- A free weekly course, 90 minutes, 30 lessons a year for 15 foreigners. Every lesson gives participants a sentence to use in everyday life.
- Taiwanese festival workshops
- Five workshops a year, in February, April, June, September and November: Lunar New Year, Qingming, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival and the culture of Taiwan’s Indigenous peoples. Free entry, each for 20 participants, members first, then the public. We have run the workshops every year, 2025 was the fifth.
- Integration festivals
- The embassies’ Food & Culture Festival in June, Refufest in September and the Obzory festival in November, together with China Airlines. Around 300 people reached per festival and some 30 volunteer hours of preparation for each.
- Community involvement
- The project responds to the growing interest in Taiwanese culture and makes room for civic engagement, including for those who will never learn Czech or English.
Numbers since 2024
The Mandarin play group for families with children meets twice a week and grew from 3 to 17 families in 2024. For Jeseník after the 2024 floods, 21 donors gave 8,250 CZK, which went to the town’s recovery through the Via Foundation. We sold the 2026 charity calendar with drawings by 15 children aged 1 to 11 for 150 CZK, and the proceeds go to the Sixth Sense Foundation.
Partners
- Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Prague
- Overseas Community Affairs Council (OCAC)
- City of Prague
- Masaryk University
- National Pingtung University (NPTU)
- China Airlines
- Palacký University Olomouc
Proud of your roots and part of Czech society at the same time
Both projects are open to everyone regardless of origin, minorities and the majority alike. The weekly meetings are open to all. For the festival workshops we invite members first, then the public, and entry is free. The Czech course is free for foreigners. Write to us at info@taiwanese.cz.
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