She has been involved with the SGI since 2015 and her main research interests are access to information, rule of law, and anticorruption policies. She graduated from Comenius University in Bratislava in 2014 with the degree in Political Science with final thesis on the subject of the inderdependence in energy relations between Lithuania and Russia. Currently, she is working there on her PhD. research on the politics of surveillance. During her studies she spent one semester as an exchange student at Mykolas Romeris University in Vilnius, Lithuania where she also conducted a qualitative research on energy policy of Lithuania. She published in the area of energy policy in Geopolitics Journal. Before joining SGI she worked for think tank Alfa as analyst with specialization on defense and security issues, cybersecurity, access to information, and public procurement. In 2015 she was a member of a research team conducting Rapid Social Survey of the impact of construction of D4 highway and R7 expressway on vulnerable groups for The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
Veronika Jursová Prachárová
Projects
Demagog.SK: Hands-on Training and Workshops in Factchecking
Demagog.SK factchecks politicians in Slovakia for over 10 years. During this time and despite our best efforts, disinformation has become…
Inviting stakeholders to the process of monitoring anti-corruption legislation and policies in Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia
The project aims at the monitoring and evaluation of enforcement of anticorruption policies and legislation in Poland, the Czech Republic,…
Transparent and effective management of government estate
The state manages real estate assets worth hundreds of thousands of euros, yet little is known about how effective it…
REenforcing direct democracy in BELarus – REBEL
Thanks to the support of Visegrad fund we have started the implementation of the project “REinforcing direct democracy in BELarus”…
Initiative We want to believe
Initiative “We want to believe” originated as a natural reaction of non-governmental organisations Institute SGI, Aliancia Fair-Play, Via Iuris, Nadácia…
Good Civil Service Act – a precondition for combating state capture in Slovakia
The main project goal is to safeguard the adoption of a good Civil Service Act in Slovakia which will be…
Supervision, transparency, professionalization – a new model of functioning of the municipal firms
Project analyses the manner of appointing the representatives of municipalities in statutory and supervisory bodies of municipal firms and the…
Project PARTICIPATION
In April 2017 the Office of the Plenipotentiary of the SR Government for the Development of Civil Society (OPG DCS)…