July 10 - July 20, 2010 - 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 2009. 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
Vaclav Bartuska
Aurele Destree
David Kral
Jeff Lovitt
Ivo Slosarcik
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.
Vaclav Bartuska
Vaclav Bartuska graduated journalism at the Charles University, Faculty of Social Science in Prague and at the Columbia University in New York. After the Velvet revolution in 1989 to which he got involved as one of the student leaders he worked as a member of parliamentary investigation commission for events on November 17, 1989. He published the successful book "Polojasno" ("Half-Clear Weather") reporting his experience with investigative work. He also worked as a journalist for the Czech daily MF Dnes and was a secretary general for the Czech participation at Expo 2000 in Hannover. He established a company dealing with analyses and marketing studies. Currently, he works as a special envoy of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic for energy security issues.
Aurele Destree
Aurele Destree graduated in International Relations and in European studies from the Universite catholique de Louvain, Belgium. In 2004, she studied at the University of Aberystwyth in Wales, department of International Politics. In 2006, she cooperated with the East West Institute and completed an internship at Europeum. She joined Glopolis-Prague Global Policy Institute in 2007, a Czech think and do tank dealing with globalization and development issues, where she is currently leading the Development and Food Policy Programme. She has there been focusing on EU common agriculture policy, agricultural trade policy and agrofuel policy from the angle of their coherence with sustainable development and human rights.
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
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.
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.