About us

The Foundation Council

Leszek Koczanowicz

Leszek Koczanowicz is Professor of Philosophy and the Warsaw School for Social Sciences and Humanities. His previous appointments include University of Lower Silesia (DSW) in Wroclaw, Wroclaw University (1977-1997), Opole University (1997-2002), SUNY/Buffalo (1998-1999 and 2000-2001), and Columbia University (2004-2005) where he was Distinguished Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs. He specializes in political philosophy, social theory and cultural aspects of politics and is the author of “Politics of Time. Dynamics of Identity in Post-Communist Poland.”

Katarzyna Młyńczak

Katarzyna Młyńczak holds two Master degrees, one in Dutch philology language and culture from Wroclaw University, the other one in economics at Wrocław University of Economics and is currently preparing her PHD at the Willy- Brandt- Center for German and European Studies, a comparative study on e-voting in several European countries and the US. She is the co-author of a big bibliography for German Studies (P.Buras, B. Michałek, T. Miążek, K. Młyńczak, Bibliografia niemcoznawcza 1997-2004, Wrocław 2006).

Beata Ociepka

Beata Ociepka is a professor at the Institute for International Studies, University of Wroclaw, Poland, where she holds the chair for International Communication. She specializes in international communication, public diplomacy, comparative media systems analysis and political communication and is the author of “Who is Television for? Public Service Broadcaster Model in Post Communist Central Europe” (in Polish), Wrocław 2003.

The Executive Board

Klaus Bachmann

Klaus Bachmann is Professor of Political Science at the Warsaw School for Social Sciences and Humanities.  Previous assignments include The American Institute for Contemporary  German Studies of Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C., the Center for European Studies of Renmin University, Bejing, and the Universities of Stellenbosch, South Africa, Vienna and Bordeaux. He specializes in European Integration and Transitional Justice and is the author of "Vergeltung, Strafe, Amnestie. Eine vergleichende Studie zu Kollaboration und ihrer Aufarbeitung in Belgien, Poland und den Niederlanden“, Peter Lang International 2011.

Sebastian Płóciennik

Sebastian Płóciennik has a PHD in economics and works as a research fellow at the Willy Brandt Centre for German and European Studies of Wroclaw University. He was a visiting professor at Magdeburg University. He specializes in German economy, economic systems and institutional economics and is the author of “European Economic Integration in the policy of the Federal Republic of Germany (1949-2000)” (in Polish, Wroclaw 2004).

Director

Anna Bachmann

Anna Tomaszewska has a Master's degree in Political Science from the University of Wroclaw, Poland and a LL.M.Eur degree from the University of Würzburg, Germany. She was awarded the DAAD Prize for the best foreign student at the University of Würzburg. In 2008 she obtained an International Parliament Scholarship by the Bundestag.

Project Managers

Tadeusz Mincer

He has a master degree in philosophy and cultural studies. He was studying at University of Wroclaw, in Rotterdam and also in Greensboro. Currently he is working on his Ph.D in the Instutute of Cultural Studies at the Univeristy of Wroclaw.

Iwona Nowak

She holds a Master's degree in History from the University of Wroclaw. She was also studying in Oslo and Opava. Currently she is working on her PHD in the Institute of History at the University of Wroclaw.

Credits

Founding a foundation is no easy task. It requires money, time and a lot of patience and strong nerves. You have to be prepared to stand in long queues, to convince judges, harass bureaucrats, fill in the same documents time and again...

Without some good spirits, who helped us, advised us, shared our desperation and tempered our anger, FEPS would never have come into being. Therefore, we are grateful to...

...Rafał Próchniak, our advisor and expert on everything connected to connections - internet, computers, software, our website, who created a serious and at the same time easy looking webpage;

....Jurek Sawka, chief editor of Gazeta Wyborcza's Wroclaw edition, who produced the cartoons for our website, adding a self ironic touch to our heavy, serious and most respectable scientific articles;

...Basia Kurowska, the good spirit behind everything which needed serious editing, who checked the grammar and spelling of our website and should not be held accountable for the errors, which may be there anyway;

...and finally Clarissa Bachmann, who invented the FEPS sign and its color, so unique, that until now, no one has been able to recompose it.