July 7 - July 19, 2012
Prague, Czech Republic

July 7 - July 19, 2012 - Prague, Czech Republic

European Summer School Faculty and Staff

The senior members of the research team of EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy and other external colleagues will teach courses specifically designed to meet the purposes of the ESS 2012. All teachers hold a high level of expertise in European affairs and are frequently invited to not only teach regular courses at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Charles University in Prague, but to also share their knowledge in panels, seminars and conferences.

Vladimir Bartovic
Vaclav Bartuska
Aurele Destree
David Kral
Jeff Lovitt
Zoltan Pogatsa
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

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.

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 holds an MA in European Studies from the Charles University in Prague and the Hamburg University of Economics and Politics and a PhD in Area Studies from the Charles University in Prague. He studied in Budapest and completed an internship at the EU Institute for Security Studies in Paris. He has worked for EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy first as an in-house and later as an associated research fellow since 2005. Since 2006 he has lectured on European integration, security policy and transatlantic relations at the Charles University. His main field of interest is the EU's common foreign and security policy with focus on security and defence, institutional affairs and transatlantic relations.