Programme 

8:30 Registration 

9:00 Opening remarks from the Faculty – Ing. Jiří Schneider, PhD, Dean of the Faculty of Regional Development and International Studies 

9:05 Opening remarks from the University – XX 

9:10 Reflecting international challenges in academia – Doc. Petr Blížkovský, PhD (moderator of the Conference) 9h20 Prof D. K. Nauriyal, Vice-Chancellor, Kumaun University, Nainital, Uttarakhand, India 

10:00 Dr Divya Upadhyaya Joshi, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Kumaun University, Nainital, Uttarakhand, India 

10:40 Common Foreign and Security Policy: Role of the Czech Republic – Tomas Zsunog, Permanent Representative to the Political and Security Committee Ambassador, Deputy Head of the Czech Permanent Representation to the EU. 

11:20 Brexit and its possible impact on trade and Agriculture: Irish perspective – Mr Breffni Carpenter, Agricultural Counselor, Permanente representation of Ireland to the EU, Brussels, Belgium 

12:00 Lunch 

13:00 How to target the poor: Experience from China – Prof Tang Lixia, China Agriculture University 

13:40 Sino-Africa Agricultural Cooperation: a mutual-learning process – Prof Qi Gubo, China Agriculture University 

14:30 Closing remarks – Doc. Petr Blížkovský, PhD 

14:45 End of the conference