CEU to Host Allianz Alumni Academy

November 18, 2014

CentralEuropeanUniversity will host the 2014 AllianzAlumniAcademy, which brings together around 100 former participants in the AllianzSummerAcademy on Europe. The previous editions were held in Brussels, Berlin and Madrid.

The AllianzSummerAcademy on Europe is a program sponsored and supported by the Allianz Cultural Foundation. Under this program, every second year, five students from each of the five invited universities (which in the past included CEU, Princeton, Bocconi, LMU, LSE, Sciences-Po, Oxford, Graduate Institute Geneva, among others) work and debate on issues related to Europe. Throughout the academic year, the selected students work within their university team, under the supervision of a faculty member, to prepare a policy report addressing questions related to the topic chosen for the Academy that year; in the summer, they meet for four days with their counterparts from the other participating universities in the Allianz Management Institute, outside Munich. There, they present and defend their report; after that, all the participants split into workshops, which include a representative of each invited university, in which they discuss and draft policy recommendations, which feed into a final policy proposal (the 'manifesto').

For more information on the program, see: https://kulturstiftung.allianz.de/en/projects/education/allianz_summer_a...

CEU has been part of the program since 2009, and will also participate in the 2015 SummerAcademy, which will take place at the beginning of August 2015. A call inviting applications from CEU master students from all departments will be released within a month of the Alumni event.

Members of the CEU community are invited to the welcome event of the 2014 AllianzAlumniAcademy, on Friday, November 28, from 5.45 p.m. to 8 p.m in the Auditorium. CEU President and Rector John Shattuck, and Henning Schulte-Noelle, chairman of the Board of Trustees of Allianz Cultural Foundation will welcome the participants; it will followed by a roundtable discussion on “Populism in Europe: More Popular Than Ever?” with Carsten Schneider (Associate Professor and Head of the Political Science Department, CEU), Harold James (Princeton University), Edit Inotai (Foreign Editor, Nepszabatsag), ArnoldasPranckevicius (Advisor to EP president M. Schultz), ItaloColantone (assistant Professor, Bocconi University), Thomas Persson (Associate Professor, Uppsala University), Felipe BasabeLLorens (Instituto Cervantes, Madrid) The event will be preceded by a reception, starting at 5 p.m. in front of the Auditorium, which will offer the opportunity  to  meet with alumni of the Academy.

For more information, contact the CEUR at ceur@ceu.hu or call 327-3104.