Spolek ETF

11/07/2024

Prague, June 2024

Dear friends,

We are happy to invite you for this year’s meeting of the Association of Friends (Spolek) of the Protestant Theological Faculty of Charles University. It will take place in Prague from
8th to 10th November 2024.

This year we will be celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Spolek, hurrah! Whether you have been a member of Spolek since the beginning, joined in the last decade, or if you currently study at PTF, feel free to join our common festivities. We might not have all of your recent contact information, so please also forward this invite to your study friends from the times you were here in Prague! We would love to celebrate and relive the “good old times” with as many friends as possible.

The working title of our meeting is Losing the Call. We will be focusing on the professions in the theological field (teachers, diaconia workers and pastors) where the calling has been strong but due to exhaustion and burn-out people have been taking long leaves or changing their careers completely. We will share stories in the form of panel discussion and include the theme throughout the weekend. Of course we will offer the basic programme as every year, getting to know each other on Friday with some refreshments, seminar day with field trip on Saturday and tips for local church services for Sunday.

We are working on bringing to our meeting some experts to contribute in this field from the Czech Republic and internationally. Information about accommodation and how to register for our meeting will arrive later. But go ahead and confirm your holidays already at work for Spolek weekend. If you wish to organize your travels already as well, it is good to know that we will start around 17:00 on Friday and on Sunday there is no mandatory activity for everyone.

We have made reservations for accommodation in the hotel KRYSTAL, address: Chosé Martího 2/407, Prague 6, . The accommodation costs (including breakfast):
- single room 700 CZK (28 EUR)/per night
- double room 450 CZK (18 EUR) /per night/ per person.
The original prices of the accommodation are higher but the Spolek will cover 50% of these expenses.You can pay your accommodation in cash (in CZK) during the Spolek meeting at the Faculty or you can send your payment to the Spolek bank account (details of the bank account see at the end of this letter).

We kindly ask you to inform us about your participation before Sunday, September 29, 2024 either by email to [email protected] or via postal mail to:
Spolek přátel ETF, Černá 646/9, CZ-110 00 Praha 1

Please use the enclosed registration form or fill it online at https://1url.cz/r1eh1

For more information on the activities of the Association (in English, German and Czech) see the website http://spoleketf.org and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SpolekETF. After the summer holidays you will find the program of the anniversary meeting on our sites.
We would also like to remind those of you who are members of our association / would like to become a member, not to forget to pay your membership fee.
The minimum is 250 CZK (11 EUR) /year, but you can of course contribute more.
If not for these contributions, we would not be able to organize our annual conferences. In case you participate at this year’s conference, you can pay your membership fee in cash in Prague.

Our bank account:
- Czech Republic – Spolek přátel ETF; no. 2720961001/5500 – Raiffeisenbank, a.s.
IBAN: CZ10 5500 0000 0027 209 61001 / BIC RZBCCZPP

See you in Prague in November!

Spolek přátel ETF - Association of Friends of the Protestant Theological Faculty

04/11/2023

https://spoleketf.org/index.php/en/english/meetings/158-program-2023

20/09/2023

Application form for the meeting 10. to 12. novemeber 2023 in Prague:

Spolek ETF 2023

20/09/2023

" Why should we have Christian schools?"
10th – 12th November 2023 in Prague
Dear friends,

We are happy to invite you for this year’s meeting of the Association of Friends (Spolek) of the Protestant Theological Faculty of Charles University. It will take place in Prague on November 10 – 12, 2023.

The theme of our meeting is about Christian education and Christian (church) schools. In a more and more secular societal environment the existence and the raison d'être of institutions for education with a Christian identity are less evident. Why do Christian schools exist? What do they want to achieve in a secular society? What is their strategy to convince the broader public of the need of their existence? What do they expect from the state and what does the state expect from them? The title of our meeting therefore is

Why should we have Christian schools?

We are working to bring some experts in this field from Germany, Norway and the Czech Republic to our conference who will give us some input into the matter.

Since the faculty is undergoing a major renovation, our meeting will take place somewhere else. We're still in the process of securing a location. We will, of course, send to all registered participants information about the venue, confirmation of accommodation reservations if requested, and a preliminary program.

We have made reservations for accommodation in the hotel KRYSTAL. The accommodation costs (including breakfast), range between 1700 CZK /per night (double room) and 1450 CZK /per night (single room). The Spolek will contribute toward 50% of these costs.

We kindly ask you to inform us about your participation before September 30, 2023 either by email to [email protected] or via postal mail to:
Spolek přátel ETF, Černá 646/9, CZ-110 00 Praha 1

Please use the enclosed registration form or fill it online at https://forms.gle/sPubcNfEriMAEDUeA

For more information on the activities of the Association (in English, German and Czech) see the website http://spoleketf.org Around October 10 you will also find the program of the November meeting on our site.
We would also like to remind those of you who are members of our association not to forget to pay your membership fee. The minimum is 250 CZK/year, but you can of course contribute more.... If not for these contributions, we would not be able to organize our annual conferences. In case you participate at this year’s conference, you can pay your membership fee in cash in Prague.

Our bank account:
- Czech Republic – Spolek přátel ETF; no. 2720961001/5500 – Raiffeisenbank, a.s.
IBAN: CZ10 5500 0000 0027 209 61001 / BIC RZBCCZPP

Kindest regards,

Peter Morée (chair) and Michael Hoffmann (vice-chair)
and

Vera Fritzova

Spolek přátel ETF - Association of Friends of the Protestant Theological Faculty