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Basic personal information
Ján Buček
born 1963, Žilina (Slovak Republic)
Academic and Work Experiences
Department of Human Geography and Demogeography, Comenius University,
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Bratislava, Slovak Republic (since 1986 to present)
Education history:
1977 - 1981 Gymnasium Rajec, Czechoslovakia
1981 - 1986 MSc in Economic Geography - Comenius University, Bratislava
1987 - RNDr. (Doctor of Natural Sciences) in Economic Geography, Comenius University, Bratislava
1996 - PhD in Economic Geography, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
Special training:
1991 - Elements of Political Science - Masaryk University Brno, Czechoslovakia
1996 - European Competition Law Policy and State Aid - European Public Law Center, Athens, Greece
Appointments, Fellowships:
2006 - present - Associate Professor - Comenius University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Human Geography and Demogeography, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
2001 - LGI Policy Fellow for 2001- Local Government and Public Service Initiative Budapest (member of OSI network)
2000 - present - Chair of Human Geography division within the Department of Human Geography and Demogeography
October 1997 - September 1998 - Global Security Fellowship Initiative (Pew) Fellow - University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
January 1992 - April 1992 - Academic Visitor - Department of Geography, London School of Economics and Political Sciences, United Kingdom,
1986 - 2006 - researcher and lecturer - Comenius University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Human Geography and Demogeography, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Selected research projects participation:
1996 -1997 Slovak Urban Centres on the Way of Modernization. Research Support Scheme Prague.
1997-1998 Local Democracy and Innovation II. Norwegian Research Council, coordinated by University of Oslo.
2000-2001 Managing Multiethnic Communities Project. Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative, Budapest.
2002 - 2004 Time-space development and consequences of reform processes in Slovakia after 1989. Slovak Scientific Grant Agency.
2002 Les structures régionales dans les pays candidats et leur compatibilité avec les fonds structurels (Europe centrale et orientale). European Parliament.
2002 - 2004 Time-space development and consequences of reform processes in Slovakia after 1989. Research grant project provided by Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education of Slovak Republic and the Slovak Academy of Sciences
2003 Local economic development in CEE. Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative, Budapest.
2004 New urban policies in the new EU countries. KPMG/BEA for Dutch Ministry of Interior, prepared for EU Inter-ministerial conference on cities within Dutch EU Presidency.
2006 ERDF Innovative Projects Analysis. European Commission, Directorate General Regional Policy
2006-2007 Strategies for improvement of physical environment in cities. European Urban Knowledge Network, Hague - project prepared within German EU Presidency in 2007.
2008 - 2010 New features of spatial organization of social, economic and political phenomena in Slovakia after joining European Union. Slovak Scientific Grant Agency.
Memberships and further activities:
2008 - present - Chairman - International Geographical Union - Commission on Geography of Governance
2008 - present - Vice-Chairman - Slovak National Geographical Committee
2006 - present - member - Scientific Board of the Geographical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
1995 to present - fellow - Royal Geographical Society and Institute of British Geographers
1994 to present - member of Slovak Geographical Society
1993 to 1995 - Chair of the Academic Senate of the Comenius University Faculty of Natural Sciences
1992 to present - participating on activities within International Geographical Union - Commision on Geography of Governance (previously Public Policy/Public Administration)
Key research interests:
geography of public policy, political geography, urban politics, local and regional self-government, local finance, local economic development, minority issues and multi-ethnic coexistence at the local level
Teaching courses:
Economics (BSc level),
Urban Economics, Local Finance and Development (BSc. level),
Political Geography (MSc level),
Management of Spatial Systems - Geography of Public Policy (MSc level)
Diploma Seminars (BSc and MSc levels)
Selected publications:
 BUČEK J.,2007. Current strategic economic development planning in cities and its application in Slovakia. Quaestiones Geographicae, 26B, pp.15-25
Regionalization in the Slovak Republic - from Administrative to Political Regions
Responding to Diversity - Solutions At The Local Level In Slovakia
Sublocal decentralisationöthe case of Slovak big cities
The Citywide/District Relationship and the Question of Integrity: A Study of Bratislava
New approaches to local democracy: direct democracy, participation and the `third sector'
The Role of Local Government in Local Economic Development (Slovakia) - full version
The Role of Local Government in Local Economic Development (Slovakia) - short version
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