doc.Marie Dohnalová, CSc. ****************************************************************************************** * In Brief ****************************************************************************************** Marie Dohnalová graduated from the University of Economics and her further educational bac sociology.  In 2000 she prepared the Civil Sector Studies master’s program, the only such and founded the Department of Civil Society Studies at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles she led for nine years. She is the guarantor of the program. She has supervised dozens of and prepared the Civil Sector Studies Ph.D. program for accreditation. She is a member of the Science Council at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University an Institute for Labour and Social Affairs Council. Her focus lies in organized civil society and social-economy themes. She is a leading Czec social economy and social enterprising. Dohnalová wrote five monographs (Sociální ekonomik kontextu, Sociální ekonomika—vybrané otázky, Sociální plánování a rozvoj ekonomiky, Ekonom and Antropologie občanské společnosti) and co-authored other texts (Občanská společnost, O Sociální ekonomika etc.), studies and articles. She was the principle investigator or coinvestigator of Czech Science Foundation and Unive Fund projects as well as projects funded by the European Social Fund, the Ministry of Educ Sports and Josef Hlávka National Economy Institute. She is the principle investigator of t in the Civil Sector topic under the corresponding research project at the Faculty of Human University. Dohnalová is a member of the Government Council for Nongovernmental Nonprofit Organization boards at the Faculty of Humanities and Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, an group of the MEYS accreditation committee.  She is also a member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education and Fórum Sociální Politiky, the VeRBuM publi a member of the Association for Social Economics, International Society for Third-Sector R to serve as a Vice Chair of a foundation Administrative Board and a public-benefit corpora founded a citizen’s association. What is the significance of Civic Sector Studies? “Study of the civil sector allows us to not just recognize but also to understand activiti the public space. I’m aware of many themes which are only rarely discussed in the society at our department may focus on. Recently, I’ve been focusing on social-economic aspects of organizations, opportunities to be economically active and increase one’s role on the loca marketing and corporate social responsibility is a new theme to be addressed.”