July 5 - July 15 2008
Prague, Czech Republic

July 5 - July 15 2008, Prague, Czech Republic

European Summer School Faculty and Staff

The senior members of the research team of the EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy and other external collegues will teach courses specially designed for the ESS 2008. The teachers hold a high level of expertise required for the policy research of the kind and, therefore, are frequently invited to have regular courses not only at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Charles University in Prague as well as to share their knowledge in panels, seminars, and conferences.

Vladimir Bartovic
Jiri Schneider
David Kral
Jeff Lovitt
Jan Prenosil
Vera Rihackova
Ivo Slosarcik
Pavlina Solcova
Tomas Weiss

Vladimir Bartovic

Vladimir Bartovic graduated in international trade and international politics at the University of Economics, Prague, Faculty of International Relations. In 2002 he studied at Universidad de Granada, Faculty of Political Science and Sociology. Nowadays he is a PhD candidate at the Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague. From 2000 till 2002 he worked as an editor in the Integrace magazine. He co-operated with OSCE election missions in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Kosovo. He is especially interested in the UN interim administration mission in Kosovo and integration of Western Balkan countries into the EU.

Jiri Schneider

Jiri Schneider is currently a Program Director of the Prague Security Studies Institute (www.pssi.cz). Previously held various positions at the Czech MFA (Political Director, Head of Policy Planning Department), 1995-1998 served as the Czech Ambassador to Israel, 1990-1992 was a Member of the Czechoslovak Federal Parliament. Prior to 1989 and his entry into public service, he was employed as a forestry surveyor. Schneider holds Diploma in Religious Studies, University of Cambridge and Diploma in Physical Geodesy from Czech Technical College. He has lectured international relations at Charles University (Prague), Masaryk University (Brno), in 2002 and 2005 served as an International Policy Fellow at the Open Society Institute in Budapest.

David Kral

David Kral graduated from the Law Faculty at Charles University. He has been the chairman of EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy since 2000 where he also serves as the director of EU policies programme. He lectures at the University of Public Administration and International Relations in Prague, and previously lectured at Charles University - Faculty of Social Sciences. He is a certified trainer in EU modules for public administration. During the work of the Convention on the Future of Europe and the Intergovernmental Conference 2003/2004, he was a member of advisory groups of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Prime Minister. He is a member of the Board of PASOS (Policy Association for an Open Society), gathering think-tanks and policy institutes from Central and Eastern Europe and Newly Independent States. His main areas of expertise in Europeum include the EU reform and Constitutional Treaty, EU enlargement, EU external relations, Common Foreign and Security Policy and EU policy of Freedom, Security and Justice.

Jeff Lovitt

Jeff Lovitt is Executive Director of PASOS (Policy Association for an Open Society), a network of 36 independent policy centres spanning 22 countries in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. From 2000-2005, he was Director of Communications in Berlin, Germany, at the international secretariat of Transparency International, the anti-corruption network. From 1986-2000 he was a journalist and editor working in London and in Central Europe, and has written for The European, the Financial Times, and as an op-ed contributor for the International Herald Tribune. He is co-ordinator of the PASOS research project, Evaluation of the Democracy Assistance Policies and Priorities of the Visegrad Four Countries. For more information, see www.pasos.org

Jan Prenosil

Jan graduated in EU studies at Faculty of Business and Economics of Mendel University Brno and Law studies at Faculty of Law, Masaryk University Brno. In 2002 -3 he studied at Ecole de Management, Lyon. Nowadays he works as lecturer and consultant in area of EU structural funds. As a Ph.D. candidate at Mendel University works on field of public finance efficiency and EU policies. As a partner of Eurion he works on studies and consultancy for Ministries on Czech Republic, regional authorities and municipalities.

Vera Rihackova

Vera Rihackova graduated from the Faculty of Social Science, Charles University, in International Relations and from Faculty of Humanities of the Charles University in Prague. She is enrolled in the PhD program in the International Relations. She is an in-house research fellow at the Institute for European Policy EUROPEUM, focusing on EU institutional reform, European Neighbourhood Policy and Security and Counterterrorism.

Ivo Slosarcik

Ivo Slosarcik has graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Charles University in Prague and Central European University in Budapest. He is lecturer of European and international law at Jean Monnet Center of Excellence, Charles University. Founding member of EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy where he is active as director for research. His major areas of interests are legal issues of the European integration, judicial and police co-operation in the EU and Czech reform of the civil service and judiciary. He is editor of the European Policy Forum and Czech correspondent of the European Public Law Journal. He is also member of the advisory board for the European Constitution by the Ministry of the Foreign Affairs.

Pavlina Solcova

After graduating in Master Study with specialization on European studies in business and economics she continued as a lecturer of Business and Economics Department, Faculty of Business and economics, Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry Brno. Within PhD. study has been focused on CAP questions in regional context. At the present time is also working for the Ministry of finance in EU and international relations department where she is engaged in Development Co-operation – financing for development, technical assistance, good governance, aid effectiveness, co-operation with world and European financial institutions. Currently she partakes of CZ PRES preparation in this area.

Tomas Weiss

Tomas Weiss graduated in European studies at the Hamburg University of Economics and Politics and at the Institute of International Studies of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University where he continues in PhD studies now. In 2007, he studied at Pazmany Peter Katolikus Egyetem in Budapest. In 2004, he completed an internship at the EU Institute for Security Studies in Paris. Since 2006, he has lectured on EU and security affairs at Charles University and at Metropolitan University Prague. His main field of interest is the EU common foreign and security policy with focus on ESDP and counter-terrorism, and transatlantic relations.