July 10 - July 20, 2010
Prague, Czech Republic

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
Piotr Maciej Kaczynski
David Kral
Jeff Lovitt
Zoltan Pogatsa
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.

Piotr Maciej Kaczynski graduated from the College of Europe in 2004 (Political Science and European Union) and is currently a research fellow at Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels where he deals with political integration of the EU, the Lisbon Treaty implementation, relations between EU institutions and their evolution; etc. He is a member of several advisory groups in EU affairs. Before he worked for Institute for Publc Affairs in Warsaw as a researcher responsible for European integration, transatlantic relations and foreign policy. He also focuses on the constitutional questions of the EU, further enlargement and the position of Poland in the European Union.

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

Zoltan Pogatsa is an international political economist working on questions related to development, the economics and politics of European integration, as well as issues related to Central Europe and the Balkans. His home institution is the Faculty of Economics at the University of Western Hungary, where is in charge of the MA Programme on International Economics and Business. I also carries out research for the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and lectures at various universities in Europe.

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.