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Senior Administrative Officer

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Tomáš Renner studied political science and international relations at the Faculty of Social Sciences from 1994 until 2000. His focus was on European integration and post World War II Germany. He has been working at the Department of Science of the faculty since 2006. He focuses on international grants and organization matters concerning the scientific council of  the faculty.

E-Mail: renner(at)fsv(dot)cuni(dot)cz

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Věra Řiháčková focuses on EU’s approach towards the neighbourhood in MERCURY

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Věra Řiháčková graduated from the Faculty of Social Science, Charles University, in International Relations and from Faculty of Humanities of the Charles University in Prague. She also studied political science at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark in 2001-2002 and attended the Fulbright–US State Department Programme on US National Security and Foreign Policy Post 9/11, at the Institute of Global Conflict and Cooperation, University of California, San Diego, in January–February 2006. She is a PhD candidate in International Relations at the Charles University, Prague. She is an in-house research fellow at EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy, focusing on EU institutional reform, European Neighbourhood Policy and Security and Counterterrorism. Before that, she worked as the editor-in-chief of www.integrace.cz in 2002-2003.

E-Mail: vrihackova(at)europeum(dot)org

Website: http://www.europeum.org/

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Within MERCURY, Lenka Rovná participates in the Steering Group and leads the team of the Charles University.

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Lenka Rovná is a Jean Monnet Chair Ad Personam and the bearer of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in European Studies at Charles University (the first one in Central/Eastern Europe). She is Chair and a Professor at the Department of West European Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague. She is Honorary President of ECSA – Czech. In 1991–1995 she was a Visiting Professor at Guelph, Bishop’s and Calgary Universities, Canada. Since summer 2002, Lenka Rovná was representative and a government alternate of the Czech Republic at the Convention on the Future of Europe. In 2004 she was made Chavaliere de l’Ordre national du Merite. She lectures in European Politics and British and Canadian Politics. Areas of her research include European Integration Processes within the EU, Theories of European Integration, Enlargement of the EU, Convention and Institutional Reform, British Political System, Canadian Political System and History.

E-Mail: rovna(at)fsv(dot)cuni(dot)cz

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Ivo Šlosarčík will participate in the conceptual part of the work in MERCURY, with focus on competing patterns of multilateralism.

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Ivo Šlosarčík is a graduate of the Faculty of Law, Charles University in Prague and of the Central European University in Budapest. He is Jean Monnet Chair in EU law and associate professor of European Studies at Charles University and at the Prague campus of New York University. He is member of “Team Europe”, group of experts under the auspices of the Delegation of the European Commission in the Czech Republic (since 2003); member of the advisory group for the Convention for the Future of Europe at Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic (since 2003); founding member, Director for Research and editor of the European Policy Papers of the Institute for European Policy EUROPEUM (since 2002); academic co-ordinator of Prague national module of the Euromasters study programme; and since 2007, he has been a member of the advisory body of the Minister for European Affairs on the priorities of the 2009 Czech EU Presidency. He specializes on EU constitutional law, European cooperation in criminal law and transformation of national political and administrative structures in the context of the EU membership.

E-Mail: islosarcik(at)europeum.org

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Tomáš Weiss focuses on EU’s approach towards the neighbourhood in MERCURY.

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Tomáš Weiss graduated in European studies at the Hamburg University of Economics and Politics and at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University where he continues in PhD studies now. In 2004, he completed an internship at the EU Institute for Security Studies in Paris. He worked as a research fellow at the Institute of International Relations in Prague between 2007 and 2008. Since 2006, he has lectured on EU and security affairs at Charles University. He is a research fellow at the EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy in Prague. His main fields of interest are the EU common foreign and security policy and transatlantic relations, in particular their security and defence dimension.

E-Mail: weiss(at)fsv(dot)cuni(dot)cz

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