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Martin Škurek prepared a guide on sickness insurance

26. 11. 2025 work in culture

The manual is intended for all self-employed artists who are economically active and want to clearly understand how sickness insurance works. You will learn what your entitlements are, how benefit amounts are calculated, and what affects their level.

The aim of the manual Sickness Insurance: A Practical Guide for Insured Persons and the Self-Employed is to help insured individuals and entrepreneurs better navigate the sickness insurance system and correctly claim their entitlements.

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CIRG – the Cultural Industries Research Group focuses on research into cultural and media industries, particularly on current issues, challenges, and conflicts arising from tensions between intellectual property law, the business models of cultural industries, the digitalization and platformization of cultural sectors, and changing consumer habits. The group’s name is an acronym of its English title, Cultural Industries Research Group. CIRG is an informal association of experts from media studies, intellectual property law, media law, media ethics, cultural economics and cultural management, sociology of culture, and data analysis. The group operates on the basis of project-based funding through applied research projects (TAČR, NAKI, EEA and Norway Grants, OP JAK Intersectoral Cooperation), basic research projects (GAČR, ZIF Bielefeld, OP VVV Excellent Research, DFG), as well as contract research (State Cinematography Fund, Association of Audiovisual Producers).