The United Nations University (UNU) is the academic arm of the United Nations (UN). It
bridges the academic world and the UN system. Its goal is to develop
sustainable solutions for current and future problems of humankind in all
aspects of life. Through a problem-oriented and interdisciplinary approach it
aims at applied research and education on a global scale. UNU was founded in
1973 and is an autonomous organ of the UN General Assembly. The
University comprises headquarters Tokyo, Japan, and more than a dozen Institutes
and Programmes worldwide.
Dr Alice Fišer has ten years of experience in communication as well as
policymaking in the European Institutions in and outside of Brussels.
She holds a PhD in political science from the AugsburgUniversity
since 2003. Her dissertation covered “The accession of the CzechRepublic
to the European Union: A Context for Transformation to a Civil Society?”
Afterwards she has started off her career in the Delegation of the
European Commission in Prague, responsible for
the relations with the Civil Society, the Academics and the Regions in the CzechRepublic.
The next step in her career took her to Brussels
to work as a parliamentary adviser for a Member of the European Parliament.
Here she was working on legislation in regional policy, justice and home
affairs. After three years in the European Parliament Dr Fišer joined the
European Commission again in January 2008. As a Press and Communication Officer
in the Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities
she was working very closely with the spokesperson of the Commissioner responsible
for this portfolio on all related press and media issues.
Dr Fišer is by nationality German and Czech. She is fluent in four
languages: German, Czech, English and French.
Working area at UNU-ViE/UNU-EHS
As the Head of the Communications Unit Dr Alice Fišer is responsible
for press/ media relations and communications matters of the UNU Vice Rectorate
in Europe (UNU-ViE) and the UNU Institute for Environment and Human Security
(UNU- EHS).
As a central unit of UNU Bonn
the unit is taking care of:
Press and media relations
Flagship publications of
UNU-ViE
as well as
UNU-EHS
, such as InterSecTions. SOURCE or the Graduate Research Series
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Public Events
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Please do not hesitate to contact Ms. Fišer on any kind of question related
to communications.
Publications
Fišer, A.; von Schnurbein, K.; Weiss, H. (2010): Argumentationsblätter der Arbeitsgemeinschaft CDU/CSU in Brüssel
(Kapitel Soziales), Brüssel 2010.
Fišer, A. (2004): The accession of the CzechRepublic to the European Union: A Context
for Transformation to a Civil Society?, Berlin
2004.
Bauer, G.; Fišer, A.; Schneider, D. (2001): Intermodal Transport
Systems: A Solution for the Impending Collapse of East-West-Traffic? In: Mayinger, F. (Ed.): Mobility and
Transport in the 21st Century. Springer-Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg, New York,
pp. 1-79., Berlin 2001.
Fišer, A. (1996): Das
Abkommen von Dayton: Chancen für einen dauerhaften Frieden im ehemaligen
Jugoslawien. In: Der Staatsbürger (Beilage der Bayerischen Staatszeitung), Nr.
9/1996, p. 7f.
