Ing. Martin Špaček, PhD.
Room: 222, FSE Moskevská 54
Phone: +420 775 648 446
Email: martin.spacek[at]ujep.cz
ORCID ID: 0000-0003-4085-6789
Teaching:
- Management game
- Strategic Management
- Management
- Expert practices
Research Interests
My research focuses on integrated approaches to decision-making at regional and local level and on social innovation in relation to regional development. I have also been involved in projects dealing with evaluation and assessment of public expenditure programmes or analysis of payment for ecosystem services systems. I have been working at FSE UJEP since 2020 and have been involved in a number of international research projects. I successfully completed my PhD studies at the Faculty of Management of the University of Komárno in Bratislava. In 2014-2017 I worked at the Slovak Technical University within the Innovation Training Network funded by the EU FP7.
Research:
NAZV: Taxonomie – klasifikační systém hodnocení udržitelnosti zemědělství, (QK22010354, 2022 – 2025), člen řešitelského týmu
Horizont Evropa: Coevolutionary approach to unlock the transformative potential of nature-based solutions for more inclusive and resilient communities – mezinárodní výzkumný projekt financovaný z Horizont Evropa, (GA 101084220, 2022 – 2026), člen řešitelského týmu
Horizon 2020: InnoForESt – Smart information, governance and business innovations for sustainable supply and payment mechanisms for forest ecosystem services, grant agreement (763899, 2017 – 2020), člen řešitelského týmu
Horizon 2020: SIMRA – Social Inovation in Marginalized Rural Areas (677622, 2016 – 2020), člen řešitelského týmu
People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme: RegPol² – Socio-economic and Political Responses to Regional Polarisation in Central and Eastern Europe (2014 – 2017), mladý výzkumný pracovník
TAČR: Dopadová evaluace veřejných programů v oblasti ŽP (TD020224, 2014 – 2015), člen řešitelského týmu
TAČR: Hodnocení podpor firmám v České republice srovnávací metodou CIE (TD010083, 2012 – 2013), projektový asistent, člen řešitelského týmu
Selected publications:
Matern, A., Špaček, M., Theuner, J., Knippschild, R., & Janáček, J. (2023). Strategies for energy transition and regional development in European post-coal mining regions: Ústí Region, Czechia, and Lusatia, Germany. Territory, Politics, Governance, 1-22.
Louda, J., Dubová, L., Špaček, M., Brnkaľáková, S., & Kluvánková, T. (2023). Factors affecting governance innovations for ecosystem services provision: Insights from two self-organized forest communities in Czechia and Slovakia. Ecosystem Services, 59, 101497.
Špaček, M., Melnykovych, M., Kozová, M., Pauditšová, E., & Kluvánková, T. (2022). The role of knowledge in supporting the revitalisation of traditional landscape governance through social innovation in Slovakia. Environmental Policy and Governance, 32(6), 560-574.
Sorge, S., Mann, C., Schleyer, C., Loft, L., Spacek, M. , Hernández-Morcillo, M., & Kluvankova, T. (2022). Understanding dynamics of forest ecosystem services governance: A socio-ecological-technical-analytical framework. Ecosystem Services, 55, 101427.
Primmer, E., Varumo, L., Krause, T., Orsi, F., Geneletti, D., Brogaard, S., … & Mann, C. (2021). Mapping Europe’s institutional landscape for forest ecosystem service provision, innovations and governance. Ecosystem Services, 47, 101225.
Kluvankova, T., Nijnik, M., Spacek, M. , Sarkki, S., Perlik, M., Lukesch, R., … & Brnkalakova, S. (2021). Social innovation for sustainability transformation and its diverging development paths in marginalised rural areas. Sociología ruralis, 61(2), 344-371.
Telle, S., Špaček, M. a Crăciun, D. (2019). Divergent Paths to Cohesion: The (Unintended) Consequences of a Place-Based Cohesion Policy. In: Regional and Local Development in Times of Polarisation (pp. 149-172). Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore
Potluka, O. a Špaček, M. (2019). Civil Society in Urban Areas: A Partner for Territorial Cohesion?. In: Territorial Cohesion (pp. 23-37). Springer, Cham
Kluvánková, T., Brnkaľáková, S., Špaček, M., Slee, B., Nijnik, M., Valero, D., … a Szabo, T. (2018). Understanding social innovation for the well-being of forest-dependent communities: A preliminary theoretical framework. Forest Policy and Economics 97(C), 163-174
Špaček, M. (2018). Multilevel cross-border governance in the Czech-Saxon borderland: working together or in parallel? Administrative Culture 18(2), 175-202
Potluka, O., Špaček, M. a Remr, J. (2017). Non-governmental Organizations as Partners: Obstacles in the EU Cohesion Policy? Ekonomický časopis 65/8, 715-736
Potluka, O., Špaček, M. a von Schnurbein, G. (2017). Impact of the EU structural funds on financial capacities of non-profit organizations. VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations 28/5, 2200-2223
Potluka, O., Brůha, J., Špaček, M. a Vrbová, L. (2016). Countrefactual Impact Evaluation on EU Cohesion Impact Evaluation in Training in Companies. Ekonomický časopis 64/6, 575-595