CEU Summer University (SUN) hosted 462 students from 89 countries and 157 faculty who participated in 18 courses during June and July. SUN offered courses that have been popular for several years, such as Drug Policy and Human Rights, Strategic Human Rights Litigation, and Innovative Financing for Education, all of them organized with the support of Open Society Foundations. The Mental Disability Law course was funded by the Mental Disability Advocacy Center and the Open Society Foundations. The course on Internet Governance, Civil Society and Public Policy Advocacy was convened by CEU’s Center for Media and Communication Studies, the Comparative Regionalisms course by the Department of International Relations and European Studies, while The Politics of Citizenship course was organized by CEU’s National Studies Program.
Some of the new courses, including Constitution-building in Africa, Documentary Cinema in the Digital Century, Moral Intuitionism: Epistemological and Ethical Aspects and Religion, and Realism in Political Thought, organized by Open Society Archives and several CEU departments. According to SUN Director Eva Gedeon, they were all well received by participants.
One of the participants in the Documentary Cinema course put together a short video summing up the CEU Summer University and Budapest experience. View it here: http://summer.ceu.hu/node/838.





