Česká spořitelna Foundation

Good teachers can change the lives of their students for the better. That is the motto of the organisation Teach Live (Učitel naživo), which was originally established as an in-house project of the bank, but because of its success, it became an independent foundation at the start of 2018. Teach Live offers a one or two-year training course to university graduates who would like to be teachers but who did not study education. The organisation’s main aim is to develop, certify and distribute innovation programmes for preparing future teachers and school principals, and to change strive for changes to the education system.

The Elixir for Schools (Elixír do škol) was originally an in-house project of the Česká spořitelna Foundation that “flew the nest” in 2018 because of its success. The organisation supports science teachers, especially physics teachers, throughout the country, and helps them to build their qualifications. It creates an environment for teachers to share their practical experience of teaching methods they have found effective.

H-mat is an organisation set up in 2013 by Professor Milan Hejný together with his granddaughter Anna Kuřík Sukniak. The aim of H-mat is to develop mathematical literacy in all pupils and students, regardless of the school they attend, through a mathematics teaching method which was developed by Professor Hejný to help build cognitive skills.

The Eduzměna Endowment Fund is a new organisation established by the České spořitelna Foundation in conjunction with three other organisations: the Karel Janeček Foundation, Avast Foundation, and OSF Foundation. Through its regional pilot project, Eduzměna it aims to prove that a positive change to the education system is possible - and to find the paths that lead to it. The ambition is to create a model that can be used nationwide.