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Why is support so important at the very beginning of the educational process?

This year's festival exceeded all expectations.

After successful previous years, we are again organizing a workshop with Hub Mladá Boleslav called "How to write a successful project".

The future lies in innovation, the strategic partnership expands the possibilities for entrepreneurship development in Mladá Boleslav region.

From 27 to 29 August 2024, the fourth edition of the educational event EDU Week took place in Mladá Boleslav, Vrchlabí and Rychnov n. Kněžnou, as well as online in the form of webinars for the entire Czech Republic.

On the website you will find information about our activities and supported projects in the past year. Last year we supported a total of 225 projects in the Mladá Boleslav, Rychnov, Vrchlabí and Jilemnice regions.

What did we get done before the holidays?

Traffic safety is the alpha and omega of road traffic, which is why we have launched another grant call focused on traffic safety infrastructure.

Another edition of EDU Week is coming up, and this year brings a wide range of practical workshops and online webinars aimed at teachers from all types of schools and institutions and anyone interested in further education.

What did May bring us?

What happened in our country in April? It was not a little!

Come to celebrate Earth Day in Mladá Boleslav on Saturday 27 April at 1 pm.

Take a look at some of the March photo shoots with us.

Traffic safety is one of the key topics that we have been addressing for a long time in order to minimize risks and increase public awareness of safe behaviour in public space. This is why we actively initiate and support projects that have a long-term vision and are based on dialogue between the public and private spheres.

We are launching spring grant calls to revive culture, protect nature and support biodiversity, develop local communities and increase traffic safety.

Also this month, we will share with you some of our February events from our environment.

Our cooperation with the Hradec Králové Region is growing into another dimension.

In cooperation with Step by Step ČR, o.p.s., we have launched a project to support kindergartens – START TOGETHER IN THE VRCHLABÍ REGION, or everything I really need to know, I learned in kindergarten.

It's happening! 💚

At the end of the year, we celebrated our 5th anniversary. During that time, together with our partners, we have managed to implement more than 600 projects 👀 🤝 For our anniversary, we have given ourselves a new logo that will give the communication drive and move it a little further. 👏

After successful previous years, we decided to organize a workshop with Hub Mladá Boleslav called How to Write a Good Project.

How was our first month of the year?

Together with KHK, we will support innovation in education. High school students in Vrchlabí are already testing a new robot!

We have another #podpoklickou!

We are now bringing you our monthly series #podpoklickou, where we will show you a selection of some less formal snippets from our endowment fund.

The Mladá Boleslav Architecture Award has been launched! For the first time it will award the best buildings and achievements in Mladá Boleslav.

Can city be a gallery? Yes! The StreetArt festival City=Gallery, which we initiated in Mladá Boleslav for the second time, brought not only new paintings.

We are launching the third year of scholarships for study stays abroad in the 2024/2025 school year!

Two significant projects, a new cycle path along the Jizera River with a footbridge and the Kosmonosy natural self-cleaning biotope, received awards.

In the first week of October, Škoda Social Week takes place, during which we have prepared profiles with our partners from public benefit organizations that present their activities and give an insight into the work they do and bring it closer to the general public.

The second year of the event attracted yoga enthusiasts, families and individuals of all ages.

Submit your projects to the second call of the Krakonoš's Gardens grant program.

Come with us to relax your body and mind! On the weekend of 10-11 September from 10:00 to 17:00. Where? At the Na Karmeli Educational Centre in Mladá Boleslav

Submit your projects to the Transport Safety Infrastructure grant program.

We actively support the regions of Boleslavsko, Rychnovsko and Vrchlabsko. In addition to dozens of smaller and larger projects, we are now also launching the New regions online magazine.

We have published a new Annual Report for last year. Stop by with us, look back and read what we have together achieved. How was the year 2022 in our endowment fund?

Together with the Bohemian Heritage Fund, we are launching again another call FORGOTTEN STORIES of Mladá Boleslav, Rychnov and Vrchlabí. The aim of the programme is to create a collective memory of these regions.

Submit your projects to grant calls for civil society and road safety! We want to promote neighbourhood relations and activities, intergenerational knowledge transfer, and the development of the form and safety of public space.

Do you want to participate in the development of our neighbourhood? Do you have an idea what you would like to improve in your region? Have you seen something inspiring in another region that you would like to see here? Let our Explorer know!

Submit your projects to the Krakonoš Gardens grant programme. Let's actively care for the environment around us!

The next round of the grant call for the creation of new or improvement of existing facilities for meetings and leisure or physical activities is here!

The second year of AFS study abroad scholarships for the 2023/2024 school year is here!

We cordially invite you to the 2nd annual MAJÁK LIGHT FESTIVAL!

A popular festival for all DIYers, inventors and innovators took place over the weekend!

We have become a general partner of the Nonprofit of the Year competition. This is another step in our efforts to support the professionalization of the non-profit sector.

The SKODA AUTO Endowment Fund invites all fans of sport, exercise and especially endurance running to the city pool in Štěpánka Park, where the 10th annual Josyma Run and the Foundation's Sports Day for Young Athletes will take place on Sunday 4 September.

Our Annual Report 2021 is out! This time unconventional, modern and playful.

A great celebration of street art in Mladá Boleslav - this is Street Art fest!

This year, the second edition of the ŠKODA Gaming Tour took place not only in the Mladá Boleslav region, but also in Vrchlabí and for the first time in Rychnov nad Kněžnou!

Public benefit organisations can now apply for grants for projects developing leisure and educational activities for children and adolescents. There is also a call to support the social inclusion and education of Ukrainian children and adults fleeing the war.

We want to encourage as many people as possible to spend their free time actively and to meet each other. Therefore, also in 2022, representatives from towns and villages can apply for a foundation grant for the implementation of investment projects in the construction / revitalisation of leisure facilities. Applicants not only from the Mladá Boleslav region, but also from the Rychnov and Vrchlabí regions can now participate.

The grant call is aimed at projects that will help social inclusion, lead to the provision and increase of palliative care capacity or improve the quality of care in the home environment. Applications are being accepted until 8 May.

The SKODA AUTO Endowment Fund will once again support the activities of municipalities, public benefit organisations and other non-profit entities operating in the Mladá Boleslav, Rychnov and Vrchlabí regions.

Belgium, France, South Africa or Paraguay? That's where the students from Mladá Boleslav will go thanks to a scholarship prepared for them by the SKODA AUTO Endowment Fund in cooperation with AFS - Intercultural Programmes.

The traditional charity sports challenges organised by the SKODA AUTO Endowment Fund and the ŠKOFIT programme continue. They are now joining forces with the online platform Znesnáze21, which specialises in crowdfunding and organises collections for those in need. How will the new way of helping work?

In a healthy body a healthy spirit, or sport to health! These slogans resonate throughout society. People who move are generally happier, more satisfied and achieve better results. After the coronavirus pandemic, people stopped moving so much. For these reasons, the grant call "Development of Municipal Leisure Facilities" was launched, to which municipalities in the ŠKODA regions could apply to support healthy lifestyles and restart them.

Are you interested in studying in a foreign country and interested in the place where you live? Are you a high school student in the ŠKODA regions? Apply for the NFŠA scholarship programme and get the opportunity to study abroad in the school year 2022/2023!

Raise interest in your health and promote an active lifestyle. With this goal in mind, a unique health truck headed to the region and its tour culminated in a Health Day at the Mladá Boleslav Exhibition Centre and the Pluharna area.

Each of us may encounter an unfavourable situation which, despite our best efforts, cannot be solved by our own efforts. However, there are many active people and organizations around us who are willing and ready to lend a helping hand in difficult moments and make the struggle with obstacles of any kind easier. It is for them that the grant call for social support has been designed.

The projects that have already received support in the Here I am at Home grant call for 2021 are already known. This year, for the first time, a grant focused on civil society development is headed to all three regions of Škodovka.

The grants will be announced in two waves. In the first one, open for applications from 22 June, we will focus on supporting civil society and helping disadvantaged groups. From September onwards, it will be possible to apply for projects in the fields of education, traffic education and safety.

The SKODA AUTO Endowment Fund wants to help restart the active lives of people of all ages in the Mladá Boleslav region following the relaxation of the anti-pandemic measures introduced in connection with the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus.

This is why the SKODA AUTO Endowment Fund is launching a grant call for summer language camps in the Czech Republic from 11 - 27 June 2021. The call is open to secondary school students aged 15 and over.

To celebrate Earth Day, we have prepared a fun and educational game in nature, in cooperation with the Ekocentrum Zahrada DDM! Go with your children and friends to trace interesting places in the region and compete for interesting prizes. The game runs until the end of May!

The first part of the Moving for a Good Cause challenge is successfully over - the public vote is closed! How did the projects of public benefit organisations rank and how can you help to ensure that as many of them as possible receive a grant for their implementation? Read on!

The Moving for a Good Cause Grant Challenge has moved to the next stage - voting on support for 11 public benefit projects. Which ones do you like the most? Check out the details of each project below and vote on the Facebook page of the New Boleslav Region!

New Visions for Culture and Forgotten Stories of the Mladá Boleslav Region are being sought.

A year ago a public collection was announced for the purchase of a piano worth CZK 1 839 000. Thanks to the contribution of the general public, it will be possible to renew the tradition of concerts that used to regularly ring the hall of the Mladá Boleslav theatre with the participation of world stars.

We support workers in health and social services in the Mladá Boleslav region!

The SKODA AUTO Endowment Fund will join forces with the ŠKOFIT programme again this year to support not only active lifestyles but also public benefit projects in the Mladá Boleslav region. An important part of the grant is the involvement of the public, who will have the opportunity to participate in the co-creation of the region. It will be the residents of Mladá Boleslav who will decide which projects will be supported and, through their movement, determine the total amount to be distributed. Applications will be accepted until 9 December 2020.

The atmosphere at the ŠKODA Gaming Day in January showed that Mladá Boleslav is a gaming region. Although the current pandemic situation means that it is not possible to hold a full-fledged 2nd edition of this successful event, don't despair. Registration for the ŠKODA Online Tour opens today!

This fall, our society is once again facing challenges and constraints related to the coronavirus pandemic. Following the declaration of a state of emergency in the Czech Republic, the SKODA AUTO Endowment Fund has launched a second round of the Crisis Fund, which plans to support public benefit organisations in the Mladá Boleslav region with more than CZK 900,000.

In Benátky n. Jiz. there was a race for points for the national ranking of the Olympic ranking and we were there.

Citizens in a number of towns and villages in the Mladá Boleslav region can look forward to a total of 7 new or reconstructed children's and sports playgrounds.

The volunteer project, which has its roots in the Danish capital and now operates in 50 countries around the world, is officially launched in Mladá Boleslav for the first time.

Do you want to know what projects we supported in the first year of the Fund's operation, or why and with what aim the Fund was established? Feel free to check out our latest annual report, which will be presented by Laurin and Klement!

On the second Saturday in January, we brought the first ever PC and console gaming event to Mladá Boleslav, called ŠKODA Gaming Day, and the Škoda Museum was bursting at the seams!

In the spring of 2019, we brought a pilot operation of shared bicycles and later electric bicycles from the Czech supplier Rekola to Mladá Boleslav. Mladá Boleslav thus became the second city after Prague where electroRekola was launched.

In August 2019, in cooperation with the Civil Society Development Foundation, we announced the 2nd round of the Civil Society Grant Call.

The availability of rapid medical assistance can be the first and decisive factor in saving a human life.

We made a contribution of CZK 4,004,000 to the Klaudián Hospital in Mladá Boleslav for the purchase of new modern equipment for the internal medicine and urology departments.

In order to support community life in Mladá Boleslav, we supported an event called Mini Maker Faire.

With the support of the Klaudián Hospital in Boleslav and the Škoda Employee Insurance Company, we organized an event focused on health prevention with the simple name of Health Day.

In order to support local traditions, crafts or customs, in cooperation with the Foundation for the Development of Civil Society, in May 2019 we announced the first grant call for Civic Society.

The pace of life is constantly accelerating, so we organized an event focused on protecting and promoting mental health and healthy lifestyle, where participants could try yoga and meditation lessons, music therapy or handmade jewelry.

In June, representatives of the SKODA AUTO Endowment Fund, the town of Mladá Boleslav and the surrounding municipalities met at the Na Karmeli Educational Centre to reflect together on the question of the further development of the Mladá Boleslav region.

A great celebration of street art in Mladá Boleslav - this is Street Art fest!

SKODA AUTO and its Foundation awarded at the Donors' Forum Awards! The purpose of the Donor Forum Awards is to support and highlight the important work of not only non-profit organisations, but also companies and corporate foundations and funds in the charitable and public benefit fields.