doc. Ing. Mgr. Jana Soukopová, Ph.D.

Curriculum Vitae

Name, academic rank and title, date of appointment

• Jana Soukopová, Ph.D.
• Associate Professor

Academic degrees

• 2017: Associate Professor, Masaryk University, Faculty of Economics and Adminstration,
• 2005: Ph.D, Mendel University in Brno, Faculty of Business and Economics
• 1999: master degree, Masaryk University, Faculty of Economics and Administration
• 1998: master degree, Masaryk University, Faculty of Science, Applied Mathematics - Mathematics-Economics

Job overview

• 1/2018 - until now: Sustainability and Circularity Institute, FAE MU, Brno, director
• 4/2017 - until now: Department of Public Economics, FEA MU, Brno, associate professor
• 2006 - 3/2017: Department of Public Economics, FEA MU, Brno, assistant professor
• 1998 - 2011: ECO-Management, s. r. o., Brno, project specialist for economic analysis
• 1996-2005: HZ Praha, spol. s r. o., assistant auditor

4) Primary teaching areas and teaching experience

• Teaching and guarantee of courses: Economic context of sustainable development, Public Project Design and Evaluation, Public contracts and public projects and their evaluation, Economics of the environment and technical infrastructure, Economics of the environment, Creation and evaluation of public projects, Evaluation methods of public projects.

5) Research

• 2021 - 2026: Principal investigator of TAČR project SS02030008 - Center for Environmental Research: Waste and Recycling Management and Environmental Safety
• 03/2018 - 03/2021: Principal investigator of TAČR project TL01000305 - Analysis of the potential of the South Moravian Region in relation to the circular economy
• 2017 - 2019: Member of the research team of the project GA17-15887S - Identification of key factors of successful inter-municipal cooperation (investigator MU Ing. Eduard Bakoš, Ph.D.)i> 2014 - 2015: Principal investigator of the project TAČR TB020MZP042 - Evaluation of the effectiveness of expenditures of municipalities and private entities in the field of waste management in relation to the amount of fees and the prices of equipment
• 2008 - 2010: Principal investigator of the the project of the Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic (VaV SP/4i1/54/08) on topic "Analysis of municipal budgets efficiency in relation to the environmental protection"
• 2007 - 2010: Member of the research team of the project of the Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic (VaV SP/4I2/26/07) on topic "Proposal of new indicators for continuous monitoring efficiency of environmental management systems with respect to branches (NACE) and system of their environmental reporting with evaluation relationships among environment, economy and society".
• 2007 - co-researcher in the project of the Czech Grant Agency (GA402/05/0974) on topic "Share of non-state nonprofit organizations on provision of public services in CR"

6) Academic internships

• 1999 language study stay at IHI Zittau University, Germany
• 1999 study stay at the Faculty of Environment, University of Portsmouth, Great Britain as part of the TEMPUS project IB_JEP-13159 TAPPEUS
• 2000 study stay at the Faculty of Environment, University of Portsmouth, Great Britain as part of the TEMPUS project IB_JEP-13159 TAPPEUS

7) University activities

• member of the scientific board of FAE MU
• member of the academic senate of FAE MU
• supervisor Ph.D.
• member of the Council for Sustainable Development of MU
• chair of the Council for Sustainable Development of FAE MU

8) Extracurricular activities

• member of the scientific board, PEF MENDELU
• member of the scientific board, Czech Association of Circular Economy
• member of the branch council, department of Economic Policy and Administration, Faculty of Socio-Economics, UJEP
• member of the branch committee, Faculty of Economics, UMB Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, ŠP VEP
• member of the editorial board of the International Review of Economics, Journal of Civil Economy, Springer
• member of the editorial board of The Central European Journal of Public Policy (CEJPP)
• member of the editorial board of the European Journal of Business Science and Technology (EJOBSAT)

9) Appreciation by the scientific comunity

• requested lecture "Economic effects of the increase in the landfill fee" at the seminar "Economic aspects of the circular economy" in the premises of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic
• member of the MoE working group for the preparation of the national Strategic Framework for the Circular Economy of the Czech Republic 2040 (Circular Czech Republic 2040)

10) Selected publications

• PARKS, Tereza; Jana SOUKOPOVÁ; Dominika TÓTHOVÁ; Hanneke J A SMALING; Aileen MURPHY; Lucie VIDOVIĆOVÁ a Jakub HLÁVKA. Exploring the impact of Namaste Care for individuals with advanced dementia: a systematic review of costs, effects and benefits. BMJ Open. LONDON: BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP, 2026, roč. 16, č. 5, s. 1-11. ISSN 2044-6055. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2025-102899. URL info
• STRUK, Michal; Jana SOUKOPOVÁ; Eduard BAKOŠ; Dominika TÓTHOVÁ; Pavel NOVÁK; Gabriela BULKOVÁ; Veronika JAROLÍMOVÁ a Vlastislav KOTRČ. Metodika vzdělávání obyvatel pro obce v oblasti odpadového a oběhového hospodářství. 2025. URL info
• SOUKOPOVÁ, Jana; Beáta MIKUŠOVÁ MERIČKOVÁ; Juraj NEMEC a Markéta ŠUMPÍKOVÁ. Institutional factors determining costs of municipal waste management in the Czech Republic. Waste Management. OXFORD (ENGLAND): ELSEVIER LTD, 2022, roč. 144, May, s. 527-532. ISSN 0956-053X. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2022.04.026. URL info
• MOLAK, Maciej a Jana SOUKOPOVÁ. Can Institutionalization Be Considered a Trap in Defining Functional Cross-border Areas? Coopetition and Local Public Services in Borderlands. NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy. Warsaw: SCIENDO, 2022, roč. 15, č. 2, s. 122-153. ISSN 1337-9038. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.2478/nispa-2022-0016. URL info
• PLAČEK, Michal; Jana SOUKOPOVÁ; Gabriela VACEKOVÁ; František OCHRANA a Martin SCHMIDT. Another One Bites the Dust: Recurrent Procurement Contracts in the Czech Republic. Public Works Management & Policy. SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC, 2020, roč. 25, č. 4, s. 365-385. ISSN 1087-724X. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1177/1087724X19876647. URL info
• PLAČEK, Michal; Martin SCHMIDT; František OCHRANA; Gabriela VACEKOVÁ a Jana SOUKOPOVÁ. Repeated selection of supplier, factors and results: the Czech Republic. Journal of Public Procurement. Emerald, 2019, roč. 19, č. 4, s. 322-344. ISSN 1535-0118. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1108/JOPP-12-2018-0049. URL info
• SOUKOPOVÁ, Jana. Teaching Benefit-Cost Analysis, Tools of the Trade. NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy : the Network of Institutes and Schools of Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe. NISPAcee - Network of Institutes and Schools of Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe, 2019, roč. 12, č. 1, s. 219-222. ISSN 1337-9038. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.2478/nispa-2019-0010. URL info
• SOUKOPOVÁ, Jana a Gabriela VACEKOVÁ. Internal Factors of Intermunicipal Cooperation: What matters most and why? Local Government Studies. Taylor & Francis, 2018, roč. 44, č. 1, s. 105-126. ISSN 0300-3930. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2017.1395739. URL info
• SOUKOPOVÁ, Jana; Beáta MIKUŠOVÁ MERIČKOVÁ a Juraj NEMEC. The Efficiency of Local Service Delivery: The Czech Republic and Slovakia. In Ivan Koprič, Hellmut Wollmann, Gerard Marcou. Evaluating Reforms of Local Public and Social Services in Europe. London: Palgrave McMillan, 2018, s. 151-170. Governance and Public Management. ISBN 978-3-319-61090-0. info
• RYBOVÁ, Kristýna; Jan SLAVÍK; Boris BURCIN; Jana SOUKOPOVÁ; Tomáš KUČERA a Alena ČERNÍKOVÁ. Socio-demographic determinants of municipal waste generation: case study of the Czech Republic. Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management. Springer Japan, 2018, roč. 20, č. 3, s. 1884-1891. ISSN 1438-4957. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10163-018-0734-5. URL info
• SOUKOPOVÁ, Jana; Michal STRUK a Jiří HŘEBÍČEK. Population Age Structure and the Cost of Municipal Waste Collection. A case study from the Czech Republic. Journal of Environmental Management. London, England: Elsevier, 2017, roč. 203, December, s. 655-663. ISSN 0301-4797. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2016.03.030. URL info
• SOUKOPOVÁ, Jana; Gabriela VACEKOVÁ a Daniel KLIMOVSKÝ. Local waste management in the Czech Republic: Limits and merits of public-private partnership and contracting out. Utilities Policy. Netherlands: Elsevier, 2017, roč. 48, October, s. 201-209. ISSN 0957-1787. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jup.2017.09.005. URL info
• SOUKOPOVÁ, Jana; Jiří HŘEBÍČEK; Jiří KALINA; Vojtěch FICEK; Jan PRÁŠEK a Jiří VALTA. Podklad při tvorbě novely zákona č. 185/2001 Sb., o odpadech - Analýza možnosti navýšení skládkovacího poplatku, hodnocení dopadů na výdaje obcí. 2014. info

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