November 21, 2011
The European University Association (EUA) has just published a major study on university autonomy in Europe: “University Autonomy in Europe II. The Scorecard.” The Autonomy Scorecard study provides a detailed and accurate picture of the current status of institutional autonomy in 26 different European countries. It offers a benchmarking tool, which ranks and rates countries, in form of scorecards on four main aspects of institutional autonomy: organizational, financial, staffing, and academic.
November 7, 2011
Professor Adam Szeidl of CEU’s Economics Department won a five-year "Networks" grant from the European Research Council. With a project budget of more than 1 million EUR, Szeidl plans to conduct empirical reserach on the effect of social networks on economic outcomes and combine experiments and firm level data to investigate questions including how social connections help make microfinance work in developing countries, how diffusion of knowledge about export markets among firm managers affects foreign trade, and how political connections affect firm productivity.
October 10, 2011
Balashankar Mulloth, assistant professor of entrepreneurship and innovation management at the CEU Business School, has been selected to join a multi-institution academic team for “Academic Entrepreneurship—from University Research to Implementation and Commercialization of Innovations—a Comparative Study.” The project aims to learn how collaboration and entrepreneurial education at universities facilitate the commercialization of research-based innovations.
October 10, 2011
Professors Gergely Csibra and Gyorgy Gergely from the Department of Cognitive Science have received the Jean-Nicod Prize. Awarded annually by the Jean-Nicod Committee to a leading philosopher of mind and philosophically oriented cognitive scientist, the prize recognizes Csibra’s and Gergely’s work in cognitive science. The award ceremony will take place on Nov. 7 in Paris. The two academics will deliver a lecture series, “Natural Pedagogy,” on Nov.
October 10, 2011
Beginning in January 2012, director of the Religious Studies Program at CEU and assistant professor at the Department of History, Matthias Riedl, has been awarded a visiting research fellowship at the International Consortium for Research in the Humanities at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. The Consortium is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, and unites scholars from China, North America, and Europe. It engages in comparative research on Fate, Freedom, and Prognostication. Strategies for Coping with the Future in East Asia and Europe.
October 10, 2011
The largest ever academic conference on the Bologna process was organized in Bucharest on 17-19 October 2011. The main goal of the conference was to review critically results to date of the research on the Bologna process in eight major thematic areas and make a set of policy recommendations for the upcoming meeting of the ministers of education from the 47 countries of the European Higher Education Area. In April 2012 ministers are expected to adopt a programmatic document about a re-launch of the Bologna process. CEU was a significant presence at the conference.
October 10, 2011
Judit Majorossy (Medieval Studies PhD 2006) has received a returning Humboldt fellowship from CEU’s Department of Medieval Studies. Majorossy is a former Alexander von Humboldt fellow at the Institut für vergleichende Städtegeschichte in Münster, Germany. She will work on the project “Urban Space and Urban Society: Comparative Investigation of the Usage of Space, Social Topography and Social Networks in Western Hungary (1400–1550).”
October 10, 2011
The Department of Cognitive Science inaugurated five new research laboratories in the Frankel Leo building on Sept. 23. The laboratories will be used for experiments on human perception, action production, social interaction, cooperation, and communication. Methods borrowed from cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and behavioral economics will be employed under the supervision of professors Guenther Knoblich, Natalie Sebanz and Jozsef Fiser. Also, the department offers training in experimental methods as part of its PhD program.
June 9, 2011
Central European University (CEU) has named Wolfgang H. Reinicke Dean of the new CEU School of Public Policy and International Affairs in Budapest, effective September 1, 2011. Reinicke is currently co-founder and Director of the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin, Nonresident Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., and Managing Director of Galaxar S.A. in Geneva.
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