Partnership for Education 2030+

Partnership for Education 2030+ is a Czech independent non-profit institute which aims to significantly improve the culture of collaboration between key actors in education in the Czech Republic. The initiative was established in 2020 when the top representatives of seven Czech platforms in education signed the text of the Memorandum on the Partnership for Education 2030+. The Czech Ministry of Education and the Czech School Inspectorate joined the initiative as consulting partners in the same year.

Our aim is to significantly improve the culture of collaboration between key actors in education in the Czech Republic. We want to create conditions for different independent organisations working in education to be able to coordinate their activities and achieve a collective impact on making pupils and students in the Czech Republic better learners, happier and equally likely to succeed, regardless of the region they live in and their background.

Czech education system is one of the most autonomous and decentralised in the world (OECD, 2018:48), with a huge number of independent actors (10,000 schools, 2,500 education authorities – mainly municipalities), thousands of non-governmental non-profit organizations, including those active in non-formal education, dozens of universities, etc.). These organisations are not centrally managed. They need to learn to work together and coordinate their activities voluntarily. There is also a lack of knowledge on how to properly cooperate without limiting the freedom and autonomy of the individual actors.

Partnership for Education 2030+ follows the Czech Education Policy Strategy 2030+ (a Czech government document focusing on the development of the education system of the Czech Republic in the decade 2020 – 2030).

We focus on two specific long-term goals of the Strategy 2030+, namely to jointly design, pilot and put into practice the following in the Czech Republic: 

• An effective system of administration, leadership and support for local schools, capable of improving children’s educational outcomes and increasing equal opportunities in education (so called Local School Administration);
• A system of measures leading to the healthy physical and psychosocial development of children and young people and the realisation of their potential in personal, professional and civic life (wellbeing – with an emphasis on coordinating support for the most vulnerable children).

In the first phase of our initiative we have set up supporting processes for the functioning of the cooperation according to the principles of collective impact and have also established two working groups (Local School Administration and Wellbeing) which focus on the key specific objectives of the Partnership 2030+.

In 2022 the first District Partnerships for Education 2030+ were established to be piloted. The working group Local School Administration have also finalised their proposal „How to strengthen the leadership and support system of nurseries and primary & secondary schools“. This proposal went through a wide public consultation and feedback process that ended in December 2023. We have also finalised the indicators of collective impact and developed a coordinated action plan based on voluntary commitments of the partner organisations. Working group Wellbeing started a communication campaign focusing on wellbeing in schools, aiming at educators and parents.

In 2023 and 2024 we piloted our proposed methodology for wellbeing support in selected Czech schools and trained a group of regional wellbeing trainers to ensure the sustainability of this approach in the participating regions.

In 2024 the working group Local School Administration started advocacy activities focusing on strengthening the leadership and support system for nurseries, primary and secondary schools amongst key stakeholders in Czech education. We started discussing a joint pilot of the local school administration program with the Czech Ministry of Education.

Since 2024 we have been organising an annual country wide campaign Week for wellbeing at school. In 2026 more than 800 Czech schools and 100 expert organisations participated. Working group Wellbeing also started advocacy work on the topic of wellbeing in schools.

A new topic on which we collaborated with the National Pedagogical Institute is the support of digital wellbeing. We have also prepared an online tool for schools to evaluate the wellbeing support that schools provide to its pupils and staff. In 2025 the Wellbeing working group prepared a concept for an effective school counseling and support services which underwent a large public consultation.

The Local School Administration working group, together with the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of the Interior, continues to prepare the methodology for pilot testing of local school administration program. In this area we also started cooperation with one of the Czech mayors associations.

In 2026, we started a methodological support program for associations of municipalities, focused on implementing their local school administration programs. Nine associations of municipalities across the Czech Republic have been participating in this two-year support program.

Following the public consultation on the proposal of Effective School Counselling Services, the Wellbeing working group prepared a position paper which is a foundation document for the upcoming advocacy activities in this field.

As of September 2026 there are thirty three organisations in Partnership 2030+: seven platforms that founded our institute, twenty one expert partner organisations and six consulting partner organisations.