At the General Assembly of the European Speleological Federation FSE on the 16th April 2026 the Czech Republic was accepted as a new member country.  They were unanimously warmly welcomed into the FSE family by the other member countries. The FSE now has 32 members.

The Czech Republic will be represented to the FSE by the Czech Speleological Society (Česká Speleologická Společnost) with the new delegates Michal Hejna and Markéta Jakovenko. The Czech Speleological Society represents 59 clubs with over 1.200 cavers. We thank the board of the Czech Speleological Society to have taken the step to apply for the FSE membership.

We all look forward to a good cooperation with our Czech colleagues and hope that their membership will lead to many mutual speleological activities.