Specialization

insurance, risk management, management systems, circular economy, sustainability management

Pedagogical activity

• Personal Insurance

• Property Insurance

Education

• 2022 – Faculty of Economics, Technical Univrsity of Liberec, Business Administration and Management (doc.)
• 2015 – Faculty of Economics, Technical Univrsity of Liberec, Insurance (Ph.D.)
• 2012 – Faculty of Economics, Technical Univrsity of Liberec, Insurance (Ing.)
• 2010 – Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Pardubice, Business Management (Bc.)

Professional Practice

Pavla Vrabcová focuses on a wide range of issues related to the bioeconomy in the context of sustainable development and on management systems for sustainable business with an emphasis on social responsibility. She is a member of advisory bodies of domestic organizations – expert section of the Czech Quality Council Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development (an advisory body of the Ministry of Industry and Trade), the Department of Economics, Management, Sociology and Informatics of the Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences including the Commission for Management and Strategic Human Resource Development in Agriculture, and the Department of Agrarian History of the Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences (advisory bodies of the Ministry of Agriculture). She is also a foreign member of the Slovak Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Economics and Management (an advisory body of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of the Slovak Republic), a member of the Czech Business Council for Sustainable Development (CBCSD) (and its working groups on Decarbonisation, Sustainable Finance and ESG, and Circular Economy), the CSR Stakeholder Platform, the Financial Academy of Zlatá koruna, and a founding member of the Platform for the Bioeconomy of the Czech Republic.

 

She is a member of editorial boards of professional journals (Central European Business Review – Associate Editor, Agricultural Economics – editorial board member + Associate Editor, Czech Hospitality and Tourism Papers, Waste forum, Prameny a studie, Mundus symbolicus) and of numerous program/organizing committees of scientific conferences. In 2024, she became a member of the expert panel Energy Transformation and Sustainable Future for the preparation of new National Priorities of Oriented Research.

 

To date, she has published more than 50 professional articles in internationally recognized databases Web of Knowledge, Scopus, and many others related to management or the multidisciplinary field of bioeconomy, with domestic and international citations.

Pavla Vrabcová has authored or co-authored a total of 7 book monographs and chapters in monographs. She is also the author or co-author of 11 teaching texts.

She is a principal investigator of scientific research projects (National Agency for Agricultural Research, Technology Agency, contract research under the Prague Voucher calls, internal projects, contract research) and serves as a reviewer for selected entities (Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, National Agency for Agricultural Research, Slovak Research and Development Agency, OP JAK, expert consultant for BETA3 TAČR, VEGA/KEGA, OP TAK).

Project activities:

• QK1920391, NAZV. Diversification of the impact of the bioeconomy on strategic documents of the forestry and wood sector as a basis for public administration and a proposal of strategic objectives by 2030, National Agency for Agricultural Research (NAZV), Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, 2018–2021

• Prague Voucher CZ.07.1.02/0.0/0.0/16_025/0000605 – Comprehensive management system of roundwood purchasing and receiving, 2021

• TP01010050/2020_03_19, TAČR GAMA. Development of renewable smart materials and hybrid composite materials based on WPC granules as raw material for the production of composite materials from recycled plastics and biomaterials, Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, 2020–2022

• Horizon Europe, Empowering the Central and Eastern European Countries and beyond to Develop Bioeconomy Strategies and Action Plans (CEE2ACT), HORIZON-CL6-2021-GOVERNANCE-01, 2022–2025

• Horizon Europe (EIT HEI Initiative), Deep Tech Empowerment for Higher Education Institutes (Skills2Scale), 2023–2024

Publications

List of publications and other information on the website kontakt.tul.cz.