Centre of Promoting Entrepreneurship Prague

CPPP is active in the area of education and entrepreneurship support. We are active in Prague and in the Central Bohemian Region. Our target group are especially people disadvantaged in terms of health or social situation like ex-prisoners or mothers after maternity leave and disadvantaged women, but we also deal with other groups. The organization was founded in 2009 with the main aim to support growth of education and to broaden offer of education for entrepreneurs and their employees. Main purpose of the organization is the cultivation of Czech business environment by providing professional and further education and supporting special employee instruments and thus creating new jobs particularly for health disabled or socially disadvantaged persons. The activities run by CPEP are especially educational and motivation programmes in following areas: • basic computer skills • entrepreneurship basics • use of ICT in business • reconciliation of private and professional life • finance and accounting CPEP also supports the idea of co-working. They run a co-working incubator for women in Kladno near Prague. They run a social enterprise focused on former prisoners and they have run educational courses in prisons. CPEP has extensive experience in project management, because it is a non-profit organization which is financing most of its activities with the use of EU funding. CPEP runs several projects dealing with reintegration programmes for persons leaving prisons. They have 5 completed projects and one still running under the name A comprehensive reintegration program for persons who are leaving the prison environment in Věznice Heřmanice • The aim of the project is to minimize social disadvantage of persons leaving prison in Heřmanice and enhance their position in the labor market. The aim is to prepare these persons for life after they leave the prison using motivational-counselling program, which helped them to gain key skills for entering the labor market and using individual assistance and consulting in the first months after they leave the prison. CPEP is also involved in the project POINTEX, s.r.o. – a social enterprise. The aim of the project is to start a social enterprise which will offer a job in constructions and local services to 6 ex-prisoners. Founders of the enterprise are CPEP and JP Tech. CPEP actively collaborates with the Prague Chamber of Commerce.