Embassy of the Netherlands in Czechia

07/10/2026

DesignBlok, Prague International Design Festival 2026 started!

We look forward to seeing you there!

05/10/2026

Tomorrow it begins. Dutch economic mission to the Czech Republic🤝

From 6 to 9 October, a Dutch business delegation led by Vice-Minister Michiel Sweers (Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken) travels through Prague, Brno, Zlín and Dolní Břežany. Fifteen Dutch companies and organisations, with Koninklijke Metaalunie as lead association, are coming to the Czech Republic to find partners in smart manufacturing, innovation, defence and dual-use technologies.

This is the business follow-up to the Dutch State Visit of June 2025. That visit confirmed how well our two economies complement each other. This week we turn that political direction into concrete B2B conversations.

What's on the programme:
🔹 High-level meetings in Prague, Brno and Zlín
🔹 Company visits across three regions
🔹 B2B matchmaking in Prague and at MSV Brno, Central Europe's largest engineering fair BVV - Trade Fairs Brno
🔹 The Czech-Dutch Innovation Day in Dolní Břežany on Friday, hosted in the laser innovation ecosystem with STAR Research & Innovation Cluster

The themes: automation and robotics, machine vision, industrial IoT, advanced materials, digitalisation, and industrial cooperation on Czech defence and dual-use priorities. We have spent the past months with colleagues at the Embassy, Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) and Metaalunie preparing for this week. Now it's time to bring Dutch and Czech engineering excellence face to face.

As Ambassador Mina Noor put it, what we start this week is meant to be the foundation for lasting cooperation. It does not end on 9 October.

Full press release: https://www.netherlandsandyou.nl/web/czech-republic/w/dutch-economic-mission-to-the-czech-republic-collaborating-for-smarter-industry

03/10/2026

What do architecture and startups have in common? According to Winy Maas, innovation has to happen in two places at once: in the lab and in practice. 🏗️🚀

At this year's Innovation Week in Prague, the Dutch Embassy was proud to be the Innovation Emerging Partner. We brought to this event, for the first time:
🔹 Winy Maas, Dutch award-winning architect, landscape architect, professor and urbanist (MVRDV), with a keynote on how AI, robotics and new materials are changing how we build. He was joined by Regina Loukotová (ARCHIP) to discuss how to educate architects when the tools change faster than the curriculum.
🔹 Techleap.nl, the Dutch startup support organisation, on its first visit to Czechia. Myrthe Hooijman discussed deep tech and startup ecosystems, sharing experience and lessons learned from the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, and Spain.

Our biggest takeaway was how many innovation challenges Czechia and the Netherlands share, and how much we gain by tackling them together.

Next stop: the Czech-Dutch Innovation Day on Friday 9 October in Dolní Břežany 🇳🇱🇨🇿 https://www.netherlandsandyou.nl/web/czech-republic/w/czech-dutch-innovation-day

01/10/2026

🌙📚 Ohlédnutí za pražskou Nocí literatury!

10. NIZOZEMSKO
Embassy of the Netherlands in Czechia

V Centru současného umění DOX četla Ivana Uhlířová knihu Sachy Bronwassera "Poslouchej". Překlad: Veronika ter Harmsel Havlíková, Nakladatelství lidové noviny NLN s.r.o. 2026.

📷 Ondřej Čáslavka

01/10/2026

Are you a fashion fan? Join us for the EUNIC Praha Imagine Festival on 9 and 10 October 2026!
And meet the Dutch expert Aniela Hoitink - AURITA.

30/09/2026

Dutch Footprint at Innovation Week in Prague - 1. - 3. 10. 🇨🇿🇳🇱💡

Czechia's biggest innovation festival kicks off this Thursday, and the Netherlands is bringing two highlights to the programme:
🏙️ Thursday 1 October, 10:00: Award-winning architect Winy Maas, co-founder of MVRDV, opens with a keynote on the future of architecture, followed by a fireside chat.
🚀 Friday 2 October, 15:00: For the first time at Innovation Week, Techleap joins the stage. Myrthe Hooijman, Second Statutory Manager & Director Special Projects, will share how the Netherlands has built one of Europe's strongest tech ecosystems.

As this year's Innovation Emerging Partner, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is proud to help bring Czech and Dutch innovators closer together.

See you there! 👋

https://www.innovationweek.ai/programme

Full Innovation Week 2026 programme: conference talks and panels on every stage, 1–3 October 2026, ČSOB Campus, Prague. Filter by day, vertical and language.

25/09/2026

🪴Dutch Flower Academy explores 🇨🇿 Czech ornamental market

Yesterday, 24 September, 🇳🇱 Ambassador Mina Noor welcomed a Dutch ornamental horticulture sector led by Flower Academy ahead of their market study visit of the Czech market for ornamental green.

Gonneke de Ridder (Deputy Head of Mission, Dutch embassy Prague), Wiegert Smallegange (NCCC Director) and Jouke Knol (Counselor for Agriculture, Fisheries and Nature) briefed the delegation on Czech politics and economy, bilateral relations, doing business in Czechia and the Czech ornamental market.

The Dutch delegation is visiting Czech retail outlets to identify the ornamental needs of Czech consumers. Dutch ornamental horticulture exports to Czechia today equals approximately €250 mln per year.

24/09/2026

🌍 On 25 September, we celebrate SDG Day to mark the adoption of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals!

This year, the Dutch embassy in Prague is putting the spotlight on SDG #12: Responsible Consumption and Production — and on the role we can all play in making fashion more sustainable. ♻️

As a member of EUNIC Prague/EUNIC Praha, our embassy is proud to contribute to the EUNIC Imagine Festival ‘Unweaving Fashion’ event at DesignBlok, Prague International Design Festival, bringing together European perspectives on how we can rethink the way fashion is designed, produced and consumed. 👗

🇳🇱 The Netherlands will be represented here by fashion innovator Aniela Hoitink, founder of AURITA, whose work explores biomaterials and more sustainable and circular approaches to fashion.

But sustainable fashion can also simply mean giving the clothes we already own a new life. Our intern Izette’s favourite “new” piece for this fall season? “A red leather coat passed on from friend to friend to friend…” Because a more sustainable world can start in your own closet.

23/09/2026

Fancy a date with Dutch? 🇳🇱

Join us this Friday, 25 September, for the European Day of Languages in Prague! 🌍

We invite you to practice or develop your Dutch skills, or maybe learn a few new words with our Dutch teacher during a mini-lesson at ! 🗣️

With more than 20 European languages to discover, Speak Dating is part of an afternoon celebrating Europe’s linguistic diversity, with music, activities and more.

📅 Friday 25 September
⏰ Speak Dating | 15:30–19:00
(Rest programme starts at 14:00)
📍 Zažijte Evropu – Europa Experience | Národní 10, Prague 1
🎟️ Free entry – no registration required

Tot ziens – see you there! 👋🇪🇺