Let’s discover, how many wonderful and creative foreigners live in the Czech Republic! Icelanders David Arnórsson and Gudbjartur Gudbjartsson teamed up in 2018 to open the popular Artic Bakehouse. Davíd has been a baker since he was about thirteen. He always wanted to get abroad, and together with Gudbajrtur got the idea to start something in Prague. “I came for a visit for a week and on the second day, we decided to do it. I fell so deeply in love with the city that it was a no-brainer for me.” He is a foreigner who might live next door. 1. Why did you decide to move, and how long have you been living in Prague? It was the beginning of 2017. I and my best friend and business partner Gudbjartur Gudbjartsson decided to find a facility with a good location in Prague to open Artic Bakehouse. He already lived in Prague and I was more than ready to move here too. I had been here before and I loved it. In April 2018 we managed to open our first store on Ujezd 11, Artic Bakehouse. 2. Your very first impression after relocation. What had surprised you the most? I’m from Iceland and...
Let’s discover, how many wonderful and creative foreigners live in the Czech Republic! Adina Agakishieva is the chief pastry chef at a French dessert shop in Prague, called Café Millème. She’s 30 years old, originally from Kyrgyzstan and she moved to Prague in 2007. The secret of her success? Not to give up your dreams, focus on what is really important for you to reach the goals for which the sky is the limit, nothing is free, work hard, be brave and sometimes step outside your comfort zone and take risks, rely on yourself and hope that fortune will smile on you. She is a foreigner who might live next door. 1. Why did you decide to move, and how long have you been living in Prague? First time I’ve visited Prague as a tourist in the summer of 2006. As a teenager I fall in love with the city, it was the first city I’ve visited in Europe. I decided to move to Prague to enter the Faculty of Humanities at Charles University to study Psychology in the Czech language. I moved here in 2007. It was different than Prague nowadays. The mobile phones were without internet connection, without...
Let’s discover, how many wonderful and creative foreigners live in the Czech Republic! India is the second-largest country in the world in terms of population. One can not imagine the level of competition between the people for better jobs, places in better universities, or even better-living conditions. Sometimes it leads to migration, whether across India or across the globe. Today there are 4165 Indians living in the Czech Republic. Most of these people are very successful. They run their business, they are doctors and engineers. One of these people is Vansh. He came here with a revolutionary idea: to shoot the best Indo-Czech film. He is a foreigner who might live next door.
Let’s discover, how many wonderful and creative foreigners live in the Czech Republic! When one hears the word “migration”, his first association will probably be a massive wave of migrants from third-world countries. However, if a Czech from Brno moves to Prague, he becomes a migrant as well, but a local one. Lidija Kovarik is a very inspiring lady from Croatia living in Prague for 10 years. She is a life and business coach, lover of spirituality, and also a managing director of an Illusion Art Museum in Prague. IntegrON asked her about her experience as an immigrant, how to run a business during COVID, how to understand art, and more.
Even during the COVID-19 pandemic number of foreigners in the Czech Republic was on the rise. Today, at the very end of 2020 there are nearly 617 thousand people from all over the world. Each and every person among expats came here for his/her own reasons. But what is important, is the way of these people, their stories. Without them, it is impossible to imagine these people. And it is even harder to understand them. IntegrON project, which was born as an independent youth initiative supported by the European Solidarity Corps, decided to collect these stories and assemble them into a chronicle of migration to the Czech Republic in the 21 century. Why, one might ask. The answer is simple: this is the only way to get to know each other. It is the dialogue, that has no boundaries. IntegrON’s guests are creative people who do art, theater, or music, diplomats, that work in the foreign service representing their cultures and nations, the people, who managed to “conquer” the Czech Republic: they have built an own success in a foreign country, fulfilled their dreams and became those, who they are today. We, Czech and foreigners, are closer than we think....
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