September 18, 2012
Klaudia Gonzalez-Martinez (IRES '03) is working to curb corruption and empower Mexico’s 5.4 million disabled citizens by leading the implementation of a new paradigm based on the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. “We are demanding that public institutions treat all citizens with a single standard and deliver programs equally,” says Gonzalez-Martinez, who graduated from CEU with an M.A. in international relations and European studies.
September 18, 2012
CEU’s Open Society Archives is among the premier Cold War research facilities in the world, containing 9.5 linear kilometers of paper records and 12 terabytes of digital records related to communist-era political, social, economic, and cultural life. That is equivalent to over 100 football (soccer) fields of paper records and nearly 3,000 DVDs of digital records.
September 18, 2012
Marie Curie 2013 Work Programme Published
September 18, 2012
Maciej Kisilowski won the award for “Most Promising Case” from the Academy of Management (the primary association for management scholars) for his multimedia case study series, “Bulldogs under the Carpet.” Kisilowski is an assistant professor of law and public management and co-director of the Initiative for Regulatory Innovation at CEU Business School. His case was chosen by an international panel of jurors, all senior members of the Academy’s Critical Management Studies Division.
September 18, 2012
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, President of Hungary Janos Ader, and Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary, Laszlo Kover, presented prestigious state awards on the occasion of the August 20 celebration of the founding of the Hungarian state. Awardees received their distinctions for excellence in service to the country, for fostering its development and advancing its interests, and for promoting universal human values.
September 18, 2012
Prof. Peter Balazs, director of CEU’s Center of EU Enlargement Studies, was awarded the Jean Monnet ad personam chairship by the European Union’s Life-Long Learning Program. The grant is awarded to professors with a distinguished background as former high-level practitioners in the field of European integration. Funding will help provide CEU graduate students with analytical tools for understanding the special nature of the EU’s multi-level foreign policy, which is based on common and national interests and identities.
September 18, 2012
Six researchers in four centers and two departments have won EU grants for teams participating in collaborative research consortia funded by the Seventh Framework Program for Research and Technological Development. Center recipients are Laszlo Barabasi (Network Science), Kate Coyer (Media and Communication Studies), Uwe Puetter (European Union Research), and Judit Sandor (Ethics in Law and Biomedicine). Department recipients are Dorothee Bohle (Political Science) and Laszlo Matyas (Economics).
September 18, 2012
CEU’s Economics Department begins this academic year with three European Research Council Starting Grants, having attracted two this summer and one last year. The two new grants went to faculty members Miklos Koren (€1.314 million) and Botond Koszegi (€1.275 million). Adam Szeidl’s 2011 grant (€1.165 million)—plus support from the Institute for New Economic Thinking—bring the department’s external research funding to more than €5 million.
September 18, 2012
The VELUX Foundations have awarded CEU’s Roma Access Programs a three-year grant of more than 5.4 million Danish kroner (approximately €726,000) to increase opportunities for talented Roma students to pursue postgraduate study. The only program of its kind in the world, the intensive nine-month course prepares members of Europe's largest and most marginalized minority – the Roma – to enter international postgraduate studies through open competition at top universities in Europe and North America.
September 18, 2012
CEU Trustee Matthew Nimetz has made a $200,000 five-year commitment to CEU’s School of Public Policy (SPP). Nimetz’s gift will provide scholarship funding for six students from southeastern Europe, enabling them to join the inaugural class of the school’s two-year Master in Public Administration degree program in September 2013. It is the first major charitable gift to SPP—and the only one designated for scholarships—since the school’s public launch in August 2011.
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