Research Projects

CEU has established a reputation as a research-intensive university through the outstanding work of its faculty members, 17 interdisciplinary research centers, and some dozen less structured faculty/student research groups. 

In line with the university’s commitment to high quality research, our faculty obtained over €8 million in new research grants in the academic year 2018–2019 with the support of the Academic Cooperation and Research Support Office. CEU has been host institution of 18  European Research Council  (ERC) grants―among them three major Synergy grants.

In 2019, CEU researchers collaborated with close to 100 universities on collaborative research projects, 24 running of these were funded by the EU. Through ACRO, over 50 applications were filed in the academic year 2018–2019 by CEU faculty for the new Horizon 2020 EU funding phase, and six have already been awarded.

Other external funders of research and academic events include public funding agencies, such as National Science Foundation, US State Department, USAID and The Korea Foundation; international organizations, among them the The United Nations Environment Programme, International Visegrad Fund; and private foundations, like Siemens AG, Volkswagen Foundation, Velux Foundation, Open Society Foundation, Fritz Thyssen Foundation.

Ongoing Research Projects

Duration: January, 2023 to December, 2026
Main researcher(s) at CEU: Diana Ürge-Vorsatz
Funding: EU/HEU/IA
Duration: October, 2022 to September, 2026
Main researcher(s) at CEU: Andrea Krizsan, Violetta Zentai
Funding: EU HORIZON EUROPE - COLLABORATIVE
Duration: January, 2021 to December, 2023
Main researcher(s) at CEU: Carsten Q. Schneider
Funding: EU Horizon 2020
Duration: October, 2021 to September, 2025
Main researcher(s) at CEU: József Laszlovszky
Funding: EU Horizon 2020 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE)
Duration: January, 2021 to December, 2024
Main researcher(s) at CEU: Dóra Mérai, Volodymyr Kulikov
Funding: EU Horizon 2020 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE)
Duration: September, 2022 to August, 2025
Main researcher(s) at CEU: Zsolt Czigányik, Iva Dimovska
Funding: Gerda Henkel Foundation
Duration: September, 2019 to August, 2025
Main researcher(s) at CEU: Albert-László Barabási
Funding: EU Horizon 2020 - ERC Synergy Grant
Duration: October, 2022 to October, 2023
Main researcher(s) at CEU: Petra Kralj Novak, Florian Weiler
Funding: CIVICA RESEARCH - H2020 research project
Duration: October, 2022 to September, 2026
Main researcher(s) at CEU: Jasmina Lukic
Funding: EU/HEU/Marie Curie Initial Training Network
Duration: July, 2022 to June, 2024
Main researcher(s) at CEU: Ameni Mehrez
Funding: John Templeton Foundation
Duration: December, 2021 to November, 2024
Main researcher(s) at CEU: János Kertész
Funding: Der Albert-Ludwigs-Univeritat Freiburg
Duration: October, 2021 to September, 2024
Main researcher(s) at CEU: Laura Rahm
Funding: EU Horizon 2020 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions / Individual fellowships
Duration: August, 2021 to July, 2025
Main researcher(s) at CEU: Zoltan Miklosi
Funding: The Research Council of Norway
Duration: October, 2021 to September, 2023
Main researcher(s) at CEU: Rachel Dudley, Ágnes Melinda Kovács
Funding: EU Horizon 2020 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions / Individual fellowships
Duration: October, 2020 to September, 2026
Main researcher(s) at CEU: Judit Sandor
Funding: EU Horizon 2020 - ERC Synergy Grant
Duration: May, 2020 to April, 2024
Main researcher(s) at CEU: Matthias Duller
Funding: Austrian Academy of Science (ÖAW)
Duration: January, 2018 to December, 2023
Main researcher(s) at CEU: Gergely Csibra
Funding: EU Horizon 2020 - ERC Advanced Grant
Duration: May, 2023 to April, 2027
Main researcher(s) at CEU: Vera Messing, Agnes Kende
Funding: EU Horizon Europe - Research and Innovation Actions
Duration: February, 2022 to January, 2025
Main researcher(s) at CEU: Stephen Stec
Funding: EU Horizon 2020 - Framework Programme
Duration: November, 2022 to October, 2023
Main researcher(s) at CEU: Renáta Uitz
Funding: CIVICA RESEARCH - H2020 research project
Duration: January, 2022 to April, 2026
Main researcher(s) at CEU: Khadija Zinnenburg Carroll
Funding: EU Horizon 2020 - ERC Consolidator Grant
Duration: March, 2021 to June, 2024
Main researcher(s) at CEU: Xymena Kurowska
Funding: Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
Duration: July, 2021 to June, 2024
Main researcher(s) at CEU: János Kertész
Funding: Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
Duration: October, 2022 to September, 2025
Main researcher(s) at CEU: János Kertész
Funding: EU/HEU/RIA
Duration: January, 2020 to December, 2024
Main researcher(s) at CEU: János Kertész, Márton Karsai
Funding: EU Horizon 2020 - Framework Programme
Duration: October, 2019 to March, 2024
Main researcher(s) at CEU: Nadia Al-Bagdadi
Funding: Carnegie Corporation of New York
Duration: June, 2022 to November, 2023
Main researcher(s) at CEU: Natalie Sebanz
Funding: EU/H2020/ERC/PoC
Duration: November, 2018 to October, 2023
Main researcher(s) at CEU: Botond Kőszegi
Funding: EU Horizon 2020 - ERC Advanced Grant
Duration: October, 2021 to September, 2025
Main researcher(s) at CEU: Renáta Uitz
Funding: Volkswagen Foundation
Duration: February, 2020 to January, 2025
Main researcher(s) at CEU: Susan Zimmermann
Funding: EU FP7 - ERC Advanced Grant