speakers

Vladimír Šucha

Vladimír Šucha is a Director for Culture, Multilingualism and Communication at the Directorate General for Education and Culture of the European Commission in Brussels. He is responsible for 5 units covering different policy development and managerial tasks of the DG. Prior to that e worked as the Director of the Slovak Research and Development Agency (2005-2006), the Slovak national body for funding research, promoting international cooperation, research culture, and scientific advice. He also worked as the Principal advisor for European Affairs for the Minister of Education of the Slovak Republic (2004-2005). He covered research, education and culture portfolio for the Slovak Representation in the EU in Brussels from 2000 to 2004. At the same time he has a long-term academic background - a full professorship of the Comenius University in Bratislava and lecturing at different institutions in many countries. He is a member of many advisory and governing bodies at the national, European and international levels. He is the author of about 100 peer reviewed publications.

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http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/education_culture/index_en.html