{"id":41424,"date":"2018-03-17T09:30:21","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T07:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/?p=41424"},"modified":"2018-03-17T10:06:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T08:06:59","slug":"interview-with-pavel-zbornik-eu-official-and-aegee-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/2018\/03\/17\/interview-with-pavel-zbornik-eu-official-and-aegee-member\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Pavel Zbornik, EU Official and AEGEE Member"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in December 2017, EPSO interviewed Pavel Zbornik, a EU civil servant and member of AEGEE<\/em>
\n since 2009. Pavel <\/em>holds a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering and Management at the Czech<\/em>
\n Technical University in Prague, and he’s currently a Business Analysis Assistant in DG Research and<\/em>
\n Innovation, working in Unit J5, Common service for Horizon 2020 information and data, in Brussels.<\/em><\/p>\n

What does your job involve? What are the best\/ worst bits about your job? \u00a0What has been your<\/strong>
\ngreatest achievement?<\/strong>
\nI support the elaboration of policy analysis on the basis of data and statistics and prepare related
\nreport. It includes management of requests for statistical information (analysis, research, drafting
\nreplies) from internal and external stakeholders and contribution to the improvement of the
\nreporting environment.
\nWhat are the best and worst parts of your job?\u00a0\"Pavel<\/strong>
\nThe best would be probably being part of well-functioning international team and be able see
\nmeaningful results of my work. On the opposite side it would probably be having quite often very tight
\ndeadlines, the word urgent has lost meaning for me. It is difficult to describe any concrete achievements from the nature of my work, one could say that meeting my deadlines is an achievement.
\nWhat did you do before working for the EU? What year did you start working for the EU?<\/strong>
\nI was on the opposite side of the barricade, as board member of AEGEE-Europe for 2 years I was
\nresponsible to write and manage grant proposals for EU and other funders. When my responsibilities
\nin AEGEE finished in 2014 I was selected to be Blue Book trainee in EACEA where I stayed
\nanother two years as external IT Consultant to help with training users and testing internal grant
\nmanagement tool. I would consider myself working for the EC more as a series of coincidences than deliberately
\ntrying to get it, triggered by moving to Brussels to work for AEGEE-Europe. To use a clich\u00e9 quote from
\nForest Gump: “Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get”.
\nWhat has been the most surprising thing about working for the EU?<\/strong>
\nAs an engineer I never paid too much attention to importance of languages and my arrival to the
\nmultilingual environment that the EC is, was sort of a reality check. Having meetings where language is
\nchanged back and forth requires certain adaptation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in December 2017, EPSO interviewed Pavel Zbornik, a EU civil servant and member of AEGEE since 2009. Pavel holds a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering and Management at the Czech Technical University in Prague, and he’s currently a Business Analysis Assistant in DG Research and Innovation, working in Unit J5, Common service for Horizon 2020 information and data, in… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":41425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[44,1764,2358],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41424"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41431,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41424\/revisions\/41431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}