Výběrové řízení – stážisté na Prague European Summit 2021

Zajímáte se o záležitosti Evropské unie? Chcete pracovat v mezinárodním týmu a získat zkušenost z organizace akce na nejvyšší politické úrovni? Přihlaste se do 12. dubna a načerpejte jedinečné zkušenosti při organizaci této konference.

Prague European Summit se koná ve dnech 12. - 14. července 2021 v sídle Ministerstva zahraničních věcí v Černínském paláci. Hlavními organizátory jsou Institut pro evropskou politiku EUROPEUM a Ústav mezinárodních vztahů. Prague European Summit vznikl s cílem vyvolat strategickou a otevřenou debatu o budoucnosti Evropské unie mezi vysokými politickými představiteli, zástupci podniků, akademiky a novináři z České republiky a dalších evropských i světových zemí.

Požadujeme

• prezenční studium VŠ se zaměřením na mezinárodní vztahy, evropská studia, politologii apod.
• komunikativnost a spolehlivost, smysl pro detail
• časovou flexibilitu v červenci 2021, především 12. – 14. července 2021
• češtinu a angličtinu na vysoké úrovni, němčina, francouzština, španělština, polština a ruština výhodou
• zkušenost s pořádáním veřejných akcí či organizační/administrativní činností výhodou
• zkušenost se správou a obsluhou sociálních sítí výhodou

Nabízíme

• práci na významném projektu, v mezinárodním týmu
• zkušenosti z organizace konference na nejvyšší úrovni
• účast na expertních debatách o směřování Evropské unie, pod záštitou Ministerstva zahraničí ČR, Úřadu vlády ČR, Zastoupení Evropské komise v ČR a Hlavního města Prahy
• možnost potkat se se zahraničními odborníky, předními představiteli ČR a EU
• potvrzení o vykonané stáži

Pokud máte o stáž zájem, zašlete strukturovaný životopis spolu s krátkým motivačním dopisem na adresu info@praguesummit.eu nejpozději do 12. dubna 2021. V případě Vašeho zájmu o zapojení do příprav letošního ročníku Prague European Summit již v průběhu dubna či května, uveďte prosím v emailu své časové možnosti.

Stáž se vypisuje na pozice v organizačním a komunikačně-partnerském týmu. Začátek stáže a časová náplň v organizačním týmu je flexibilní, dle možností. V komunikačně-partnerském týmu se jedná o 3-4 týden dubna s průměrnou časovou náplní 10-15 hodin týdně.

V předmětu Vašeho e-mailu uveďte typ stáže, který Vás zajímá a v případě komunikačně-partnerské stáže přiložte prosím k Vašemu CV a motivačnímu dopisu vypracovaný praktický úkol s následujícím zadáním:

1. Letošní summit se bude zabývat tématy digitalizace a zelené ekonomické tranzice. V návaznosti na to vytvořte seznam 10 potenciálních partnerů v ČR (firem, institucí, neziskových organizací...), kreativitě se meze nekladou.

2. Představte si, že na summit přijede jeden z Vámi vybraných nejvyšších představitelů EU (prezident Parlamentu/Komise/Rady) a na jeho začátku udělá krátkou prezentaci (na Vámi vybrané téma). Vytvořte o tomto vystoupení krátký post na Facebook, který potom přiložíte do Word dokumentu.

The seventh edition of the Prague European Summit will be held on 12-14 July 2021 in Prague's Czernin Palace. The name of this year's summit is "Europe Reborn"!

More information about the programme and speakers will follow in due time.

The high-level conference is organised by EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy and the Institute of International Relations Prague with the institutional support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic and the Representation of the European Commission in the Czech Republic.

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Dr. Vaira Vike-Freiberga is former President of the World Leadership Alliance/Club de Madrid and former President of Latvia (1999-2007). She played a leading role in achieving membership in the EU and NATO for her country and was Special Envoy on UN reform. She was vice-chair of the Reflection group on the long-term future of Europe, and chaired the High-level group on freedom and pluralism of media in the EU in 2011-12.

She is a member, board member or patron of 30 international organisations, including ECFR, Nizami Ganjavi International Centre (Co-chair), Library of Alexandria, Trust Fund for Victims of the ICC, Panel of Eminent Persons on European Security of OSCE, Advisory Council of CEPA, as well as five Academies. She has been awarded 34 Orders of Merit and 19 Honorary doctorates.

Born in Riga, Vaira started her schooling in refugee camps in Germany, continued in Morocco, and obtained a Ph.D. at McGill University (1965). After a distinguished career as Professor of psychology at the University of Montreal, she returned to her native country in 1998 to head the Latvian Institute. Less than a year later she was elected President by the Latvian Parliament and re-elected in 2003.

From September 2005 to August 2013, Pascal Lamy served for two consecutive terms as General Director- of the World Trade Organization (WTO).  A committed European and member of the French Socialist party, he was Chief of Staff for the President of the European Commission, Jacques Delors from 1985 to 1994. He then joined the Credit Lyonnais as CEO until 1999, before returning to Brussels as European Trade Commissioner until 2004. Mr. Lamy holds degrees from HEC School of Management, the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (IEP) and the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA).

Pascal Lamy was appointed, in May 2015, as interministerial delegate for the preparation of the French candidature for the Universal Exhibition 2025. He shares his other activities between the Jacques Delors Institute (President emeritus), the presidency of the World Committee on Tourism Ethics, the presidency of the Oxford Martin School Commission for Future Generations, the vice-presidency of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS), the Co-chair of the Equitable Access Initiative (Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria), his participation to the Global Ocean Commission and UNAIDS as well as different subjects related to international affairs.

Prior to joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic as a Deputy Minister, Aleš Chmelař worked at the Government Office as State Secretary for European Affairs of the Czech Republic. Before that he was a researcher in the field of financial markets at the Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS), the largest and oldest think-tank in Brussels. From 2014, he worked as head European analyst at the Czech Government Office and Head of EU Economic Policy Coordination. He is specialized in European economic and financial policy, the transformation of post-communist countries and the industrial strategy of Central Europe.

Ana Palacio is an international lawyer specializing in international and European Union law and founder of Palacio y Asociados (Madrid, Brussels and Washington DC), a law firm specializing in European and International Law, and arbitration. Ms. Palacio sits on the corporate boards of Pharmamar (biotech), Enagás (gas systems), and AEE Power (energy infrastructures); she is a member of the European Advisory Committee of Investcorp (investment), and the International Advisory Board of Office Chérifien des Phosphates -OCP- (fertilizers); and a member of the Governing Council of the Instituto de Empresa (business school). Ana Palacio serves on the Executive Board of The Atlantic Council of the United States and is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council. She further participates on the governing bodies of several research centers and public institutions, among them as member of the Scientific Council of the Real Instituto Elcano, member of the Council of the ECFR, and member of the Board of Visitors of the MD Anderson Cancer Center. She is a visiting professor at the Edmund E. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

Ms. Palacio served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain (2002-2004) and was a member of the Spanish Parliament (2004-2006) where she chaired the Joint Committee of the two Houses for European Union Affairs. She has been Senior Vice-President and General Counsel of the World Bank Group and Secretary General of ICSID (2006-2008). From 1994 until 2002, she was a member of European Parliament where she chaired the Legal Affairs and Internal Market Committee, the Citizens Rights, Justice and Home Affairs Committee, as well as the Committee of Committee Chairs. Ms. Palacio publishes regularly in periodicals and journals. In particular, she maintains a monthly column at Project Syndicate.

Vladimír Bartovic is the director of EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy. In 2014 he has been appointed external advisor – a member of the Group of External Advisors on the EU policies to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic and a member of the Programme Council of the Czech – Polish Forum. In 2015 he has been elected member of the Board of Directors of PASOS – Policy Association for an Open Society.

He graduated in international trade and international politics at the University of Economics, Prague, Faculty of International Relations. He also studied at University of Granada, Faculty of Political Science and Sociology.

From 2011 to 2012 he served as a director of Strategic Planning and Analysis at the Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic. He also worked as an editor in the Integrace magazine. He has been lecturing on topical EU issues at the Institute of Public Administration and the Czech National Bank. He co-operated with OSCE election missions in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Kosovo.

Dr. Ditrych holds degrees in International Relations from University of Cambridge (Mphil.) and Charles University in Prague (Ph.D.) where he is now an academic fellow and becoming the director of the IIR, was in charge of coordinating D. CENT Karl Deutsch Centre for International Political and Social Research at the Department of International Relations. He has gained valuable experience as the Fulbright research fellow at Belfer Center, Harvard University, a visiting researcher at CERI, Sciences Po, Paris and SWP Berlin, an associate fellow at European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) and an analyst for NATO SHAPE.

In his current research, he explores terrorism and revolutionary violence in global politics, NATO and European security, ethnopolitical conflicts in the Postsoviet space, and global trends and their analysis and forecasts.

Dr. Ditrych is the author of more than forty academic articles, monographies and book chapters. His articles have been published in leading impacted journals in the field of International Relations. His latest book, Tracing the Discourses of Terrorism: Identity, Genealogy, and State, was published by Palgrave Macmillan (2014). Dr. Ditrych has taken part in a number of collective research projects, as well as expert analyses for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, EEAS or the European Parliament. He is currently a principal investigator of PRIMUS 17/HUM/24 Hybrid Revolutionary Actors in Global Politics (2018-) and a senior researcher in an interdisciplinary center of excellence UNCE Violence, Trauma and Justice (2018-).

Steven Blockmans is Directo at the Brussels-based think tank Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Professor of EU External Relations Law and Governance at the University of Amsterdam, and a founding member of the Centre for the Law of EU External Relations (CLEER). He is the author of ‘Tough Love: the EU’s relations with the Western Balkans’ (AP/CUP 2007) and the (co-)editor of more than 10 volumes, including ‘The EU's Role in Global Governance’ (OUP 2013) and ‘Differentiated Integration in the EU: From the Inside Looking Out’ (CEPS 2014). He served as leading author of the FES-sponsored Task Force on ‘More Union in European Defence’ chaired by Javier Solana (CEPS 2015). 

For more than 20 years Steven has combined his academic work with contract research carried out for EU and national donors, consultancy activities and training for professionals. He has advised governments of third countries on their relations with the EU and worked on numerous technical assistance projects in wider Europe and Asia. He is a regular speaker at international conferences and a frequent commentator on EU affairs for international media. Before joining CEPS in 2012, Steven was Head of Research at the Asser Institute, an international law centre based in The Hague. From 2010 to 2014, he was a special visiting professor at the Law Faculty of University of Leuven. From 2007 to 2009 he served as a long-term expert on legal approximation in the framework of an EU-sponsored project in support for the Ministry of European Integration of Albania.

Prof. Balázs graduated in Budapest at the Faculty of Economics of the “Karl Marx” University (today Corvinus University). He got his PhD degree and habilitated at the same University. He is ScD of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In parallel with his government and diplomatic career, he has been teaching and doing research. He was nominated Professor of the Corvinus University in 2000 and joined the CEU as full time Professor in 2005.

Prof. Balázs is currently holding a Jean Monnet Ad Personam Chair at CEU. His research activities are centered on the foreign policy of the EU and problems of the late modernization and European integration of the Eastern part of the continent. He also analyzes questions of European governance including the future of European institutions. He is regularly teaching at various home and foreign universities, lecturing in English, French, German and Hungarian. In 2005, he established the Center for European Neighborhood Studies (CENS) at the Central European University. 

Ivan Hodáč is a Founder and Vice-President of the Aspen Institute Prague. He was Secretary-General of the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) from 2001 until October 2013. He is currently member of a special Advisory Group of experts, which advises the European Commission in negotiation of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with the United States (TTIP). He is also the Chairman of the Board at cabinet DN. The Financial Times listed him among the most influential personalities in Brussels politics. Before joining ACEA, he was Senior Vice-President and Head of the Time Warner Corporate office for Europe. Previously he was Secretary-General of the trade organization IFMA/IMACE, Senior Economist at Didier & Associates, and Assistant Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges. He was born in Prague, where he studied mechanical engineering. He completed his education in economics and political science at the University of Copenhagen and the College of Europe in Bruges (European studies).

Ms Hrdinková has been actively involved in international relations and EU affairs during her entire career. She has represented the Czech Republic in EU institutions such as ECOFIN and other international bodies; she had also worked on implementing EU law into the Czech legislation prior to the Czech Republic’s accession to the EU, served as a national expert in the European Commission, and chaired an EU Council’s working group during the Czech presidency of the EU.

Until January 2019, she had been employed at the Ministry of Finance where she held expert and managerial positions such as department director at the Office of the Minister of Finance and advisor of the Deputy Minister of Finance for Taxes and Customs, and she had also directed the International Relations and Financial Markets section. She specialises in fiscal relations and development assistance and she has served as an external expert for the International Monetary Fund.

She also occasionally teaches at the University of Economics in Prague.

At present, she is Head of the European Commission Representation in the Czech Republic. Before taking up this position, she worked as the Acting Head of Representation of the EC to the Czech Republic; a Head of Political Sector as well as a Press Officer in the EC Representation. As regards her Brussels experience, she worked in the Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content & Technology (2012–2013) being in charge of relations with stakeholders. Before that she worked in the Secretariat General of the Commission, as a policy coordinator (2005–2006) and then in charge of Briefings for the President (2006– 2012). Earlier, she worked in the Directorate General Press and Communication (2002 – 2005). Dana Kovaříková studied at Masaryk University in Brno, where she obtained a degree in economics and in media studies and journalism; at Katholieke Universiteit in Leuven (Belgium), where she obtained a degree in Sociology of Social Change; and at Université Rennes 1 (France), where she obtained a Diplome franco-tcheque d´administration publique. 

László Andor is Head of Department and Associate Professor at the Department of Economic Policy (Corvinus University of Budapest). He is also Senior Fellow at Hertie School of Governance (Berlin) and Visiting Professor at ULB (Brussels).

He served as EU Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion from 2010-2014. Between 2005 and 2010, he was a member of the board of directors at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, representing Hungary, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic and Croatia.

Andor holds a degree in Economic Sciences from Karl Marx (now Corvinus) University as well as an MA in Development Economics from the University of Manchester. During his studies, he spent time at George Washington University, the University of Oslo, King’s College London and the Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences.

In 1997/8 he was Visiting Fulbright Scholar at Rutgers University (USA). He has authored, edited or co-edited a dozen books in Hungary. Since 1998, he has been member of the trustees of the European Studies Foundation in Budapest.

Andor was awarded Doctor Honoris Causa at Sofia University of National and World Economy in May 2014 and the Legion of Honour (chevalier) by the French President in August of that year.

Ambassador (Rtd) Martin Bútora was the advisor to President of Slovak Republic Andrej Kiska (from June 2014 to June 2019). He is the founder and honorary president of the Institute for Public Affairs in Bratislava established in 1997. In 1990 – 1992 he served as advisor for human rights to President Václav Havel. From 1999 to 2003, he was the Ambassador of Slovakia to the United States.

Amb. Butora holds a PhD. in Sociology from Charles University in Prauge. He taught at Charles University, Trnava University and University of Economics in Bratislava. He writes on civil society, foreign policy, and democratic transformation. In the last years, he co-authored and/or co-edited Visegrad Elections 2010: Domestic Impact and European Consequences, 2011; Active Citizenship and Nongovernmental Sector in Slovakia, 2012; Alternative Politics? The Rise of New Political Parties in Central Europe, 2013; Collective Defence and Common Security. Twin Pillars of the Atlantic Alliance. Group of Policy Experts report to the NATO Secretary General, 2014.

Ambassador Butora is the recipient of the Democracy Service Medal from the National Endowment for Democracy (1999), Crystal Wing Award for diplomatic achievements (2002), and Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2011). He served as Human Rights Advisor to Czechoslovak President Vaclav Havel (1990–1992).

Roland Freudenstein was born in Bonn, Germany. After a two year voluntary military service, he studied political science, economics, Japan studies and international relations in Bonn and Los Angeles. Having worked as a research fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations, he became a member of the foreign and security planning staff of the European Commission in Brussels in the 1990s. Subsequently, he became the director of the Warsaw office of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and later held a leading function in the Foundation’s central office in Berlin. After coming back to Brussels in 2004, he represented the German city state of Hamburg to the EU.

Roland Freudenstein is now, since 2008, Head of Research and Deputy Director of the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies. He has contributed to debates and published extensively on European integration, international security, German-Polish relations, global democracy support and recently about the changes in the Middle East. Since 2015 Roland Freudenstein is also a Policy Director of the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies

The start of the career of Dr. Rudolf Jindrák was tied with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He started in the Consular Department and served as a General Consul in Munich. He focused mainly on the relationships with Central European states and German speaking states and served as a Head of First Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (bilateral relations with Austria, Germany, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Switzerland). He was appointed as the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Czech Republic to the Republic of Hungary, to the Republic of Austria, to the Federal Republic of Germany between years 1998 and 2014. He also acted as the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2001 to 2004 and in 2014 to 2015.Since August 2015 he has served in the advisory board of PM Bohuslav Sobotka where he was responsible for fostering of the relations with Germany and Central European cooperation agenda. Since 15 March 2017 he serves as the Director of the Foreign Department of the Presidential Office.

Christian Lequesne holds BA and MA degrees from Sciences Po Strasbourg and the College of Europe, Bruges. He then got his Ph.D. in political science and his Habilitation in Sciences Po Paris. Since 1988, he worked as a research fellow and then Professor at Sciences Po. He was also a deputy director of CERI, and later director of CERI. Furthermore, he worked as a director of the Centre français de recherche en sciences sociales (CEFRES) in Prague and as a professor at the European Institute of the London School of Economics. He is a regular visiting professor at the School of Government of LUISS University, the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna, and the Department of Social Sciences of Charles University in Prague.

He is currently Co-Chief Editor of European Review of International Studies, member of the editorial board of The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, Journal of European Integration and member of the scientific committees of Politique européenne and Etudes européennes. Moreover, he is member of the Scientific Board of the Institut für Europäische Politik (Berlin), the Fondation Robert Schuman and the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. Was awarded the F. Palacky social sciences medal by the Czech Academy of Sciences and Chevalier in the Ordre des Palmes académiques.

Dr. phil. Barbara Lippert studied Political Science, Contemporary and Eastern European History and Slavonic Studies at the University of Bonn and the Free University Berlin between the years 1981-1987. She then acquired her Doctorate (Dr. phil) at the University of Bonn. In 1990–1992, she worked as a Senior Associate at the Institute for European Politics (IEP) in Bonn and Berlin and between 1992–2009 as a Deputy Director of the Institute for European Politics (IEP) in Berlin.

Since April 2009, she has worked as a Director of Research and Member of Executive Board of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs of the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) in Berlin.

Her areas of expertise are EU enlargement policy, development of the political system of the EU, Germany and European integration and the European Neighbourhood Policy.

Prior to joining the Human Brain Project, Paweł Świeboda was the Deputy Head of the European Political Strategy Centre (EPSC), an in-house think tank of the European Commission reporting directly to President Juncker, from 2015 to 2020, and President of demosEUROPA – Centre for European Strategy, an EU policy think tank based in Warsaw, from 2006 to 2015. Earlier, he was Director of the EU Department at the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the years 2001-2006 and EU Advisor to the President of Poland from 1996 to 2000.

A graduate of the London School of Economics (BSs in Economics), and the University of London (MA in International Relations), he is a member of a number of advisory boards of European think tanks as well as a member of the Global Agenda Council on Europe of the World Economic Forum. In 2013/2014, he was Rapporteur of the Review of European Innovation Partnerships.

Vessela Tcherneva is the co-founder of Sofia Platform, a venue for dialogue between members of NGOs, the media, and politics from Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. From 2010 to 2013 she was the spokesperson for the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a member of the political cabinet of Foreign Minister Nickolay Mladenov. She has been the head of the Bulgarian office of the European Council for Foreign Relations since 2008, as well as programme director for Foreign Policy Studies at the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia. Between 2004 and 2006 she was secretary of the International Commission on the Balkans, chaired by former Italian prime minister Giuliano Amato. She has been a supervising editor for Foreign Policy Bulgaria magazine since its launch in 2005.

Nathalie Tocci is Director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, Honorary Professor at the University of Tübingen, and Special Adviser to EU HRVP Federica Mogherini, on behalf of whom she wrote the European Global Strategy and is now working on its implementation, notably in the field of security and defence. Previously she held research positions at the Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, the Transatlantic Academy, Washington and the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Florence. Her research interests include European foreign policy, conflict resolution, the Middle East and the Mediterranean. Her major publications include: Framing the EU's Global Strategy, Springer-Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 (author); The EU, Promoting Regional Integration, and Conflict Resolution, Springer-Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 (co-editor); Turkey and the European Union, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 (co-author); Multilateralism in the 21st Century, Routledge, 2013 (co-editor), Turkey’s European Future: Behind the Scenes of America’s Influence on EU-Turkey Relations, New York University Press, 2011 (author); and The EU and Conflict Resolution, Routledge, 2007 (author). Nathalie is the 2008 winner of the Anna Lindh award for the study of European Foreign Policy.

Petr Kratochvíl is the Senior Researcher of the Institute of International Relations and a lecturer at several Czech universities. He is the Chairman of the Academic Council of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic as well as a member of a range of academic and scientific councils. Petr Kratochvíl represents the IIR in various international associations such as the Trans European Policy Studies Association or the European Consortium for Political Research.

He has published extensively on European integration, EU-Russian relations, institutional reform and the EU enlargement, the role of religion in international affairs, and international relations theory.  The book The European Union and the Catholic Church: Political Theology of European Integration, co-authored by Tomáš Doležal and published in 2015 by Palgrave Macmillan, is one of the latest examples of his research activity. He is also often called upon to present his analyses by various Czech and foreign media.