2025

There have been no reforms in this area in 2025.

2024

Calls within OP Employment Plus (2024)

In 2024, new calls within the Operation Programme Employment Plus were announced:

• development and strengthening of cooperation between employers and employees with an emphasis on the area of labour relations and human resources development, e.g. training for employees and employers aimed at supplementing, extending and upgrading knowledge in areas with a direct impact on social dialogue, support for cooperation between enterprises and educational institutions in order to align the qualification level and qualification structure of the workforce with the requirements of the labour market, etc.; allocation CZK 100 M / EUR 4 M (Support and strengthening of social partner dialogue (2) – Podpora a posílení dialogu sociálních partnerů (2));
• support for community work and social work in municipalities, for non-governmental non-profit organisations, etc., with a focus on socially excluded persons or persons at risk of exclusion, support for solving debt problems, crime prevention, etc.; allocation CZK 500 M / EUR 20 M (Support for social inclusion in excluded localities (2) – Podpora sociálního začleňování ve vyloučených lokalitách (2)).

2023

Calls within OP Employment Plus (2022 and 2023)

In 2022 and 2023, the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs announced several calls within the Operation Programme Employment Plus that support adult education to a varying degree (further education, continuing professional development, retraining, development of basic competencies, gender equality awareness). The programmes are focused on different target groups in terms of age, gender or certain disadvantages in the labour market.

Some calls are intended for a wider range of different applicants (e.g., professional and business associations, educational and non-profit organisations, regions, municipalities, etc.). Following groups are supported:

• parents of young children – the establishment and operation of new children's groups (dětské skupiny) (Founding of the children’s groups (1) – Vybudování dětských skupin (1), allocation CZK 300 M / EUR 13 M, and Funding of the operation of the children’s groups in public administration – Financování provozu dětských skupin ve veřejné správě, allocation CZK 200 M / EUR 8 M).
• children and youth at risk of school failure, from an early age, through preschoolers, to pupils at basic schools (základní školy), with an emphasis on children from socially and economically disadvantaged environment in selected municipalities – by the prevention and dealing with the early school leaving (before completing the basic education, ISCED 2), e.g., activities of multidisciplinary teams, counselling, motivating children/families to participate in various family clubs and preschool facilities, out-of-school tutoring and leisure time activities, encouraging families to cooperate during school education; allocation – CZK 300 million / EUR 13 M (Prevention of early school leaving – Prevence předčasných odchodů ze vzdělávání);
• disadvantaged youth (15‒29 years of age) – by international mobilities; allocation – CZK 35 M / EUR 1.5 M (ALMA – international mobility of disadvantaged youth – ALMA – mezinárodní mobilita znevýhodněné mládeže);
• employees, with emphasis on people aged 55+ – by continuing professional development; allocation – CZK 600 M / EUR 25 M (Together for education – Společně za vzděláváním);
• women aged 50+ active in the labour market – by comprehensive educational programmes; allocation – CZK 50 M / EUR 2 M (Strengthening the competences of women disadvantaged in the labour market and in business – Posílení kompetencí žen znevýhodněných na trhu práce a v podnikání);
• people disadvantaged in the labour market (migrants and refugees, long-term or repeatedly unemployed people, persons serving a sentence, people at risk of addiction and others) – e.g., by retraining and education, development of basic competencies for easier employment on the labour market or activities to acquire work habits and experience; allocation – CZK 350 M / EUR 15 M (Support for people disadvantaged in the labour market – Podpora osob znevýhodněných na trhu práce);
• socially excluded people or those at risk of social exclusion, less well-off and disadvantaged people living in rural areas – by community-led local development, e.g., strengthening education in the information society (community libraries, out-of-school tutoring, motivation seminars/workshops for the youth, etc.) or networking of employment services (connecting public employment services with employers, non-government non-profit organisations, municipalities, and schools); allocation – CZK 1.2 billion / EUR 49 M (Support of the community-led local development – Podpora komunitně vedeného místního rozvoje);
• different groups – by providing information, experience or skills avoiding gender stereotypes that will support conscious and informed decision-making about the future profession, including networking of schools and employers; allocation – CZK 40 M / 1.7 M (Choice of study field and profession without gender stereotypes – Genderově nestereotypní volba studijního oboru a povolání).

Thanks to the EU and the National Recovery Plan, the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs is also offering hundreds of millions of CZK for the development of digital skills needed for work and life in a modern digitized society. The Jsem v kurzu project enables people to acquire new skills and secure a job for the future. It is possible to choose from the offer in the Ministry’s e-shop. The Ministry pays 82% for non-accredited courses and 100% for retraining courses, up to a total amount of CZK 50,000 per person. Both employed and unemployed person can receive the subsidy. (See also Chapter 8.1.)

Other calls are designed for implementation of larger projects by the Labour Office of the Czech Republic, ministries, or the National Pedagogical Institute. They include following areas:

• further education strengthening the position of target groups on the labour market, measures supporting their return to education and leading to the development of basic competencies, consulting, and information activities, motivating activities, and activities leading to obtaining sustainable and suitable employment, with the focus on:
  • job seekers, applicants for employment, and inactive persons, incl. different disadvantaged groups; allocation – CZK 8.8 B / 370 M (Implementation of employment policy instruments at the national level – Realizace nástrojů politiky zaměstnanosti na národní úrovni);
  • people younger than 30, mainly the job seekers and applicants for employment, people without experiences - the NEETs, pupils and students in the last years, and graduates (within 2 years from the end of education); allocation – CZK 1.2 B / EUR 51 M (Youth guarantee – Záruky pro mladé);
• creation, development, and implementation of system measures in further education, creation, and development of new diagnostic tools for career counselling, linking and support of the system of recognition of the results of non-formal education and informal learning, support for participation in continuing professional development, introducing quality elements into the educational process, etc.; allocation – CZK 200 M / EUR 8 M (Development of the continuing professional development – Rozvoj dalšího profesního vzdělávání);
• activities in the area of gender equality, incl. processing research, analytical studies, and methodologies, setting up tools for long-term data collection, implementing tools for analysing gender pay gap, employee training; allocation – CZK 150 / EUR 6 M (Implementation of the Gender Equality Strategy for 2021‒2030 – Implementace Strategie rovnosti žen a mužů na léta 2021‒2030).

Exchange rate used: CZK/EUR = 23.66, 23 March 2023.