Central European University attended the 31st EAIE Annual Conference in Helsinki at the end of September.
The non-profit European Association for International Education was founded in 1989 and it is the European centre for expertise, networking and resources in the internationalization of higher education. The EAIE Annual Conference is the largest conference in Europe with a focus on internationalization of higher education. This year, it was held in the capital of Finland on September 24-27.
The award committee notes “that Schneider is on track to become one of the most cited political scientists in his cohort.”
The award honors academics who teach in the European Higher Education Area.
Public voting is open until September 15: you can vote for the iLab in the Best Accelerator / Incubator and best Co-working Office categories.
CEU alumna Ágota Pintér has been named as the inaugural recipient of the BOOST Prize.
This year the Danubius Award was awarded to Bela Greskovits, university professor in the Departments of International Relations and Political Science at CEU. The award was established in 2011 by the Austrian Ministry of Education, Science and Resesearch and the Institute for Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM). The prize was awarded at the Danube Rectors' Conference in Bratislava on November 8.
You can read Greskovits's acceptance speech below.
By the decision of the Selection Committee, Professor Andras Sajo and Professor Renata Uitz, from the Department of Legal Studies have been selected as the recipients of the 2018 CEU Award for Outstanding Research. The award recognizes outstanding research by CEU faculty that has had a significant international impact.
The European Association for International Education presented the 2018 Constance Meldrum Award for Vision and Leadership to CEU President and Rector Michael Ignatieff on September 11 in Geneva at the kickoff of its annual conference. The award recognizes CEU's defense of academic freedom in Hungary after legislation targeting the university was introduced in 2017.
Budapest, July 19. – CEU Professor Gergely Csibra has been made a Fellow of the prestigious British Academy for the humanities and social sciences.
Professor Csibra (Department of Cognitive Science) was elected to the fellowship in recognition of his work studying the cognitive capacities of infants.
By the decision of the selection committee, Professor Erin Jenne from the Department of International Relations and Associate Professor Tamara Steger from the Department of Environmental Science and Policy have been selected as the recipients of CEU's Distinguished Teaching Award, which recognizes CEU faculty members for promoting high standards of teaching, linked with the mission and institutional ambitions of CEU.
The awards will be conferred at the 2018/2019 academic year Opening Ceremony, on September 14, 2018.
