{"id":457,"date":"2017-04-19T10:29:49","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T10:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ipe.hr\/en\/?page_id=457"},"modified":"2025-03-17T22:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T21:57:07","slug":"vedran-horvat","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/ipe.hr\/en\/vedran-horvat\/","title":{"rendered":"Vedran Horvat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:32% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"699\" src=\"http:\/\/ipe.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/vex.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6570\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p style=\"font-size:17px\">Vedran Horvat is the managing director and head of the Institute for Political Ecology. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:17px\">From 2005 to 2015 he was the country director of the Zagreb office of Heinrich B\u00f6ll Stiftung, a German green political foundation. Since 2012 he&#8217;s been the national correspondent for Green European Journal, and from 2012 to 2017 he was the managing board member of the National Foundation for Civil Society Development. From 1998 to 2004 he worked as a journalist and web-editor in the daily political newspaper Vjesnik. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:17px\">He is a sociologist specialised in human rights, regularly publishing on European politics, civil society development, environmental issues, migration etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 2019 Vedran is a member of the board of directors of the Green European Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2023 Vedran has been a guest fellow at DFG Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies &#8221;Futures of Sustainability&#8221; at University of Hamburg and became an associate at the Transnational Institute based in Amsterdam.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3>VEDRAN&#8217;S LATEST ACTIVITIES<\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"pt-cv-wrapper\"><div class=\"pt-cv-view pt-cv-grid pt-cv-colsys pt-cv-pginfinite\" id=\"pt-cv-view-b93f782n2w\"><div data-id=\"pt-cv-page-1\" class=\"pt-cv-page\" data-cvc=\"3\"><div class=\"col-md-4 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\"  data-pid=\"7507\"><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><a href=\"http:\/\/ipe.hr\/en\/activities\/new-publication-post-growth-futures-new-voices-novel-visions\/\" class=\"_self pt-cv-href-thumbnail pt-cv-thumb-default cvplbd\" target=\"_self\" ><img width=\"770\" height=\"380\" src=\"http:\/\/ipe.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/naslovna-770x380.png\" class=\"pt-cv-thumbnail img-none no-lazyload \" alt=\"New publication: &quot;Post-Growth Future(s): New Voices, Novel Visions&quot;\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n<h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ipe.hr\/en\/activities\/new-publication-post-growth-futures-new-voices-novel-visions\/\" class=\"_self cvplbd\" target=\"_self\" >New publication: &#8220;Post-Growth Future(s): New Voices, Novel Visions&#8221;<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-4 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\"  data-pid=\"7496\"><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><a href=\"http:\/\/ipe.hr\/en\/activities\/weall-project-kicked-off\/\" class=\"_self pt-cv-href-thumbnail pt-cv-thumb-default cvplbd\" target=\"_self\" ><img width=\"770\" height=\"380\" src=\"http:\/\/ipe.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/weall-770x380.png\" class=\"pt-cv-thumbnail img-none no-lazyload \" alt=\"WeAll project kicked off!\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n<h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ipe.hr\/en\/activities\/weall-project-kicked-off\/\" class=\"_self cvplbd\" target=\"_self\" >WeAll project kicked off!<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-4 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\"  data-pid=\"7449\"><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><a href=\"http:\/\/ipe.hr\/en\/activities\/for-the-ninth-time-a-successful-green-academy\/\" class=\"_self pt-cv-href-thumbnail pt-cv-thumb-default cvplbd\" target=\"_self\" ><img width=\"770\" height=\"380\" src=\"http:\/\/ipe.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/zajednicka-770x380.jpg\" class=\"pt-cv-thumbnail img-none no-lazyload \" alt=\"For the ninth time, a successful Green Academy!\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n<h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ipe.hr\/en\/activities\/for-the-ninth-time-a-successful-green-academy\/\" class=\"_self cvplbd\" target=\"_self\" >For the ninth time, a successful Green Academy!<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\" id=\"pt-cv-inline-style-5fd9782zn0\">#pt-cv-view-b93f782n2w.pt-cv-post-border { margin: 0; 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Case of Floods in the Western Balkans<\/a><\/em>, Policy Brief, RRPP, University of Fribourg, 2016 (author)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu\/tina-go-home-the-commons-are-here\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TINA, Go Home! The Commons Are Here<\/a>&#8220;, Green European Journal, The Common Ground, Volume 14\/2016 (author)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In the Aftermath of the Croatian &#8216;U-turn&#8217; \u2013 Damage Control for Civil Society&#8221;, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boell.de\/en\/2016\/12\/15\/shrinking-spaces-western-balkans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shrinking spaces in the Western Balkans<\/a>, Heinrich B\u00f6ll Stiftung, Sarajevo 2016 (author)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/rs.boell.org\/sites\/default\/files\/exec_summary_unlocking_the_future_seeds_of_change_sustainable_agriculture_web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Seeds of Change &#8211; Sustainable Agriculture as a Path to Prosperity for the Western Balkans<\/a><\/em>, Heinrich B\u00f6ll Stiftung, Zagreb 2014 (editor)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.idi.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/SPftES-p.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sustainability perspectives from the European semi-periphery<\/a>,<\/em> IDIZ \/ Heinrich B\u00f6ll Stiftung, Zagreb, 2014 (publisher)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/unlocking-the-future.com\/energetika\/energija-nadohvat-ruke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Energija nadohvat ruke<\/em><\/a>, Heinrich B\u00f6ll Stiftung, Zagreb, 2014 (publisher)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/lemondediplomatique.hr\/ambivalencije-zelene-revolucije\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ambivalencije zelene revolucije<\/a>&#8220;, Le Monde Diplomatique (Croatian edition), No. 5\/2013 (author)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/unlocking-the-future.com\/publikacije\/energetskezadruge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Priru\u010dnik za osnivanje energetskih zadruga<\/em><\/a>, UNDP \/ Heinrich B\u00f6ll Stiftung, Zagreb 2013 (editor)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;NGOs and Social Movements in Croatian Civil Society: Converging or Colliding?&#8221;, in: Vedran Dzihic \/ Dan Hamilton, <a href=\"https:\/\/transatlanticrelations.org\/publication\/unfinished_business\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Unfinished Business. The Western Balkans and the International Community<\/em><\/a>, Brookings Institutions Press, D.C. CTR-Series, Washington D.C., 2012 (author)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/hrcak.srce.hr\/78952?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Green Parties in Europe: Potential Routes of Future Developments<\/a>&#8220;, Croatian International Relations Review, 2011 (co-author with Tomislav Toma\u0161evi\u0107)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Sigurnost ili solidarnost \u2013 kojim putem krenuti?&#8221;, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cms.hr\/system\/publication\/pdf\/16\/Preporuke_EU_KNJIZNI_BLOK.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Preporuke za sigurnosnu politiku EU temeljem iskustva izgradnje mira dr\u017eava nastalih dezintegracijom Jugoslavije<\/a><\/em>, Center for Peace Studies, 2010 (author)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/biba.cesi.hr\/knjiznica\/prikaz_ext\/id\/1241\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SIGURNOST \u2013 od koga, za koga?<\/a><\/em>,&nbsp;Heinrich B\u00f6ll Stiftung, Zagreb 2009 (editor)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Forumi o regionalizaciji i odr\u017eivom \u017eivljenju (Fora on regionalisation and sustainable living)<\/em>, Heinrich B\u00f6ll Stiftung, Zagreb, 2007 (editor)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8221;Circulation of the intellectual capital in SEE \u2013 assuring transition&#8221;, in: Sini\u0161a Ku\u0161i\u0107 \/ Claudia Grupe, <a href=\"https:\/\/bib.irb.hr\/prikazi-rad?&amp;rad=332355\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Western Balkans on Their Way to the EU?<\/em><\/a>, Peter Lang &#8211; Europ\u00e4ischer Verlag der Wissenschaften, pp. 69-83, Frankfurt, 2007&nbsp;(author)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>U kakvu EU \u017eelimo? U potrazi za razlozima demokratskog deficita (What kind of EU we aspire to join? Searching the causes of the democratic deficit \u2013 EU\/Croatia)<\/em>, Heinrich B\u00f6ll Stiftung, Zagreb, 2006 (editor)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The State and NGOs in the EU Accession Process in Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina: through partnership to success<\/em>, ACIPS, Sarajevo, 2006 (co-author with Irham \u010ce\u010do and Vladimir Todori\u0107)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hrcak.srce.hr\/20765\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Slaba dru\u0161tva i nevolje s pluralizmom (Weak societies and troubles with pluralism)<\/em><\/a>, Heinrich B\u00f6ll Stiftung, Zagreb, 2005 (co-editor)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Forumi o odr\u017eivom razvoju (Forums on Sustainable Development)<\/em>, Heinrich B\u00f6ll Stiftung, Zagreb, 2004 (co-editor)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seep.ceu.hu\/archives\/issue51\/horvat.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brain Drain. Threat to Successful Transition in Balkan Region?<\/a>&#8220;, South Eastern Europe Politics Journal Online, CEU Budapest, Vol V, pp 76-93, July, 2004&nbsp;(author)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vedran Horvat is the managing director and head of the Institute for Political Ecology. From 2005 to 2015 he was the country director of the Zagreb office of Heinrich B\u00f6ll Stiftung, a German green political foundation. Since 2012 he&#8217;s been the national correspondent for Green European Journal, and from 2012 to 2017 he was the managing board member of the National Foundation for Civil Society Development. From 1998 to 2004 he worked as a journalist and web-editor in the daily political newspaper Vjesnik. 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