December 11, 2012
CEU Library has won two grants to fund professional development opportunities. The first finances a three-day workshop for 10 staff members to strengthen their skills and build confidence in designing, developing, delivering, and evaluating professional training. The workshop, to be held at CEU, will be conducted by Netskills, a staff-development service based at Newcastle University and supported by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).
December 11, 2012
The Center for Policy Studies is now part of the “Changing Employment” Marie Curie Initial Training Network, a consortium of 11 European partner institutions aiming to train a cross-European and interdisciplinary network of policy-focused social scientists comprehensively skilled in understanding, analyzing, and responding to social and institutional employment changes.
November 27, 2012
Karoly Boroczky has been appointed head of the Department of Mathematics and Its Applications, effective Nov. 1, for a two-year term. Boroczky comes from the Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, where he served as a senior research fellow and full professor. He was also an associate professor at Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest.
November 27, 2012
Gyorgy Gergely, professor in the Department of Cognitive Science and co-director of the Cognitive Development Center, was elected to the prestigious Academia Europaea, a European non-governmental association of leading experts in natural sciences and the humanities. For more information, see http://acadeuro.org/index.php?id=1.
November 27, 2012
Karoly Jokay, visiting professor in the Department of Public Policy, has been named executive director of the Fulbright Commission, which was established 20 years ago by the U.S. Department of State and the Hungarian Ministry of Education to promote educational exchange between the U.S. and Hungary. Alongside his new responsibilities, Jokay will continue teaching courses in public budgeting and public management at CEU. For more information, see https://www.ceu.hu/node/32896.
November 13, 2012
CEU’s Department of Economics ranks ninth in Europe in the number of European Research Council grants held by current permanent faculty, according to its own calculations based on public data. For more information, including a list of the top schools and research institutes, see https://www.ceu.hu/node/32635.
November 13, 2012
CEU Press makes its books available in the UPCC Book Collections on Project MUSE, the leading provider of digital humanities and social sciences content for the scholarly community.
http://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/libraryintelligencer/2012/10/26/seventeen-new-publishers-to-contribute-to-upcc-book-collections-on-project-muse/
November 13, 2012
Associate Professor Martin Kahanec and Visting Professor Lucia Kurekova of the Department of Public Policy testified as invited experts before the Advisory Committee on Free Movement of Workers of the European Commission’s Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion Directorate General. They spoke in Brussels on Oct. 30 about the impact of European Union enlargement on labor mobility.
November 13, 2012
Miklos Haraszti, visiting professor in the Department of Public Policy, was appointed Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus by the U.N. Human Rights Council. In his new role, effective Nov.
November 13, 2012
Kiril Sharapov will join the Center for Policy Studies as a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow in January 2013, having secured two years of research funding from the Marie Curie Actions of the European Commission's Seventh Framework Program. Sharapov comes to CEU from Glasgow Caledonian University, where he was a lecturer in sociology. At CPS he will pursue a project to explore how trafficking in human beings is understood by the general public in countries of the enlarged European Union and its neighboring states.