: to support the continuation of the Collaborating for Rural Sustainability (CORUSUS) program, an Open Society University Network (OSUN) research and educational initiative focused on sustainable agriculture in rural regions of South Africa, Kyrgyzstan, and Lebanon
: to deliver sixteen interdisciplinary Summer University courses, developed by Central European University and partners in the Open Society University Network
: to support the establishment of the OSUN Forum on Democracy & Development, a collaborative research platform structured around five thematic hubs centered on critical themes pertaining to contemporary democratic realities across geographies
: to deliver fourteen interdisciplinary Summer University courses, developed by Central European University and partners in the Open Society University Network
: to support the successful completion of doctoral studies, including research and dissertation write-up, of CEU doctoral students negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic
: to deliver eighteen interdisciplinary Summer University courses online, developed by Central European University and partners in the Open Society University Network
: to support the third phase of the Center for Media, Data and Society’s Journalism Breakthroughs project to continue sharing knowledge about innovation in journalism
: to operate a program offering a free college-level humanities course to educationally disadvantaged and/or impoverished adults in Budapest, Vienna, and Berlin
: to support the Open Society Archives at CEU on a book project analyzing the examination of historical literature of the periods between the 19th and the 21st century
: to provide support for completing Central European University’s move to Vienna, which will help CEU advance on its learning and research ambitions for its Vienna campus
: to support the successful completion of doctoral studies, including research and dissertation write-up, of CEU doctoral students negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic
: to support the second phase of the Center for Media, Data and Society’s Journalism Breakthroughs project, including the development and pilot testing of an “Innovation Lab”, to continue sharing knowledge about innovation in journalism
: to provide in-kind support of consultancy and advisory services to assist with the search of a new Vienna campus, and which ultimately will help advance CEU's educational work in Austria
: to support campus technology enhancements and refurbishments, which will help CEU advance on its learning and research ambitions for the Vienna campus
: to support Center for Media, Data and Society's (CMDS) interdisciplinary, cross-national investigative reporting into the linkages between corruption and environmental damage along the Danube river
: to support the 5th Annual Legal Empowerment Leadership Course that will encourage, support and cultivate a global cadre of government and civil society leaders who have a common understanding of legal empowerment, particularly of the poor.
: to support the 4th Annual Legal Empowerment Leadership Course that will encourage, support and cultivate a global cadre of government and civil society leaders who have a common understanding of legal empowerment, particularly of the poor
: to support a six-day training for up to 25 policy fellows aimed at developing capacity of researchers and think tanks in Moldova, Armenia, and Kyrgyzstan to encourage proactive cooperation between independent researchers, civil society organizations and decision-makers with a view to increasing the quality of policy research and data‐based dialogue and, eventually, better informing and influencing the public policy‐making process.
: to support greater awareness of women's rights in drug policy through curriculum design, public events, policy briefs, and targeted outreach to communities of women's rights advocates
: to provide program level support to CEU for their efforts to support educational activities and build collaboration with the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM)
: to support a four-day intensive training course on gender impacts of drug policy with specific attention to impact on women and girls, delivered at the School of Public Policy in Budapest June 26 to July 1, 2017.
: to fund the seventh year of a Summer Course on Human Rights Litigation that develops skills of human rights litigators in the field of public interest litigation to bring about policy change
: to provide a discretionary grant to support the university's leadership transition and ensure that the new rector has the necessary means and flexibility to move quickly in advancing his vision for the university
: to fund the fifth year of a Summer Course on Human Rights Litigation with the aim of developing skills and thinking in the field of public interest litigation and using legal to bring about policy change.
: This grant supports the Aaron Swartz fellowship, which is focused on the following sub-areas of research in 2016/2017: demonstrating conclusions that can be drawn for information professionals, conflicting areas that are arising between the state of the art concepts and civil liberties in terms of access to information, and proofs of concept on authenticating digital documents for legal evidence and validation of research in the networked environment of information.
: This grant covered the organization of the second Legal Empowerment Leadership Course which took place from Monday, October 10 to Friday, October 14, 2016.
: to support a six-day workshop for 17 policy fellows aimed at developing capacity of researchers and think tanks in Moldova, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan in order to help produce individuals better equipped to participate in the exchange of ideas and to contribute to discussion and debate on matters of public interest, whether locally, regionally, or globally