CEU Alumni Events
 The Alumni Reunion Weekend 2009 will take place on 15 & 16 May. All CEU graduates and friends are invited to dine and party with fellow alumni, in the company of their former professors, CEU leadership, staff and fresh graduates. Check out the latest program and register online.
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The Alumni Reunion 2009 will take place on 15 & 16 May, with various events and programs - check this section later on for details. All CEU graduates & friends are invited to dine and party with fellow alumni, in the company of their former professors, CEU leadership and staff. To see photos from last year's reunion,  . We have prepared a program for the event, so be sure to look at it.
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Easter Gathering for Alumni in Bulgaria
was held at 16th April, at the chapter traditional place, Tukan restaurant. Contributions to the Alumni Campaign and Reunion Class Gifts were encouraged. The chapter representative to the Alumni Leadership Forum shared her thoughts on how to further develop alumni programs and activities.
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Department of Medieval Studies 15-year Reunion
Dear Alumna and Alumni!
Alumni & friends of the department brought their memories, photos, kids’ pictures, publications, offprints – and themselves to the biggest to-date alumni event of the department!
Information about the event is available here. Photos and follow-up materials are to appear soon.
Dear Washington DC CEU Alumni Friends,
Thank you to everyone who came out to the Park on Saturday. It was a fun night and I really appreciate Heather posting a few pictures to the Facebook page.
This coming Wednesday (January 28th) our DC CEU alumni group is looking forward to welcoming you at our first happy hour of 2009. We are striving to make each monthly happy hour the 4th Wednesdays of the month.
We will be meeting at the Bricksellar at 6pm. The Brickskeller is located at 1523 22nd St NW two blocks west of Dupont Circle on the edge of Rock Creek Park and Georgetown.. I will let the hostess know where to find the group so that everyone can be directed to the right area.
Finally, please remember to bring your business cards and contact info for an opportunity to meet fellow DC CEU alumni who are working/studying in the Washington, DC area.
I hope to see you on Weds.
Maria Cvitkovic (HIST ' 05)
 San Fransisco, 4 January, 2009
The CEU Economics Department together with the National Bank of Hungary organized an informal get-together at the 2009 ASSA meetings in San Francisco. All graduates and friends of the CEU Economics Department were invited.
CEU faculty members present included John Earle, Peter Kondor, Miklos Koren, Peter Garjzl, while Akos Valentinyi and Peter Benczur will represent the National Bank of Hungary.
Sofia, 29 December, 2008
Alumni in Bulgaria met again for Christmas on 29 December, 6 pm, organized by Zori Stefanova-Ivanova (Bulgaria, POLS '98).
Yerevan, 25 December, 2008
 On 25 December, 2008 the CEU Armenian Alumni - two generations of 90s and 2000s joined to celebrate Merry Christmas and the arrival of 2009. The cozy and romantic French-style restaurant “Mozartium” opened recently to Armenian public hosted the Alumni. The two generations of Alumni could meet each other, refresh their memories of Budapest, and share news and plans. The beautifully presented dishes and high standards of the cuisine pampering the palate, the original interior and the live music made the evening even more beautiful. The Armenian Alumni wish all of you a very happy 2009!
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 Tara Stone Medina of the Central European University Development Office visited Minneapolis on 24 November. Alumni residing in the area were welcome to join and network, share memories, and to learn about the CEU of today.
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New York, 21 November, 2008
The staff of the Central European University Development Office visited New York on 21 November, 2008 and met CEU alumni in the area. The event provided the venue to network, share memories and to revitalize New York alumni chapter. |
 CEU alumni in Belgium got together with networking initiative taken by Stefan Cibian (Romania, DPP '06) at the Garden City bar/restaurant in Place de la Liberte, next to Madou.
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 On November 11, George Soros, CEU Founder and Honorary Chairman, Board of Trustees, legendary financier and philanthropist, and widely-read author, held a lecture entitled “Comments on the Global Financial Crisis.” In his talk, Soros focused on the current international financial situation and offered his insights and predictions vis-à-vis the repercussions and evolution of the crisis – many of which he had also detailed in his recent book, The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means.
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The Network Scholarship Programs of OSI held a Regional Alumni Conference in Krakow, Poland for all NSP alumni from Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia from the 7-9th November. For those CEU alumni who were also involved in the NSP, this was a great opportunity to network.
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Budapest, November 4, 2008
The CEU Center for EU Enlargement Studies (CENS) with the kind support of the International Visegrad Fund and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Budapest held the following conference: "EU Energy Policy and Infrastructure Development - The Role of the Visegrad Countries"on November 4, 2008. CEU alumni participated on the event both as expert-presenters and sessions' participants. View full  . |
Budapest, October 22, 2008
 The Human RightS Initiative in cooperation with CEU Alumni Relations and Career Services celebrated the United Nations Day on Wednesday, October 22, 5.30 pm, in the Auditorium. In the program two alumni, Emilia Korytkowska (Poland, GENS '06), currently working as Coordinator in Staff Administration at UNHCR - Hungary; and Miklos Szalay (Hungary, ECON '06) who worked with UN DESA (Department of Economic and Social Affairs) as an intern in New York, in 2006. They both shared their personal experience from the time they were recruited, some words about the UN recruitment model, and personal pictures. After this, students and alumni gathered for the event could listen to a presentation by Istvan Lakatos (Deputy Head of Global Organizations Department at the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Budapest, October 21, 2008
The Italian Chamber of Commerce for Hungary in cooperation with the Canadian Chamber of Commerce for Hungary, invited all CEU alumni to the Happy Hour socializing event organized together, taking place on Tuesday 21st October from 19,00 at Okay Italia restaurant.
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The Hungarian Happy Hour was an excellent networking opportunity in a relaxed atmosphere for CEU alumni in Washington DC to meet fellow young professionals. The Hungarian America Foundation is committed to bring together young Hungarian professionals in the Washington area and elsewhere to network and benefit from each others' skills and experience. The event was organized by Heather McMahon (USA, NATI '04).
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 On October 10, 2008 for the third consecutive year, Armenian alumni, led by Aida Ghazaryan (LEGS '00), represented CEU at the 13 th Educational Information Fair organized annually in Armenia. This one-day national event is open to the public and offers a variety of information on US and other countries' study opportunities. Participants had a chance to meet with representatives of the universities, alumni and several organizations that fund or administer exchange programs.
Individual CEU departmental packages were prepared on the spot and handed to those who approached the CEU booth. A promotional movie on CEU (2006) was screened and two Alumni from different years and departments had presentations and answered questions from the audience. Some specific queries regarding the departments have been taken for referral to appropriate alumni. This year twice as much more CEU Armenian Alumni participated in the Fair, and more potential applicants were attracted to the CEU stand due to effective recruitment efforts. Hope that as in the previous year, some of the visitors to the CEU stand at the Fair will make it to the final selection and have the opportunity to study at CEU!
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The first meeting of the Romanian Club at CEU, affiliated with the Romanian Hungarian Intercultural Youth Society (RHIYS) took place this Thursday, 18th September. The aim of the meeting was to give students and alumni an introduction on what Romanian Club and RHIYS are, future activities, and get a sense on who is part of this network. After the meeting, the groupd headed off for drinks in a place close to CEU.
The Romanian Club would like to provide a space where those coming from Romania and those interested in Romania can meet. They particularly aim at developing a network of students and faculty doing research on Romania which should function as an information sharing and support group.
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 On 17 September 2008, a group of six Belarusian CEU alumni - Vitali Silitski (POLS '94), Siarhei Salei (MEDS '98), Jahor Novikau (IRES '98), Ekaterina Kuznetsova (MEDS '94), Dzmitry Loisha (LEGS '05) and Aliaksei Lashuk (LEGS '04) - had an informal meeting with the Ambassador of Hungary to Belarus, Mr Ferenc Kontra, and Councilor for external economic issues, Mr Ferenc Berenyi.
During the meeting, which took place at the premises of the recently opened Hungarian embassy in Minsk, the participants exchanged views on a wide number of issues of Belarusian-Hungarian relations ranging from political and economic to cultural and educational matters. Among others, the possibilities of organizing together educational events, information activities and public lectures were discussed. Mr Ambassador Kontra kindly offered the premises of the embassy to be used for any CEU promotion and recruitment events.
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- CEU Welcome Afternoon
 CEU alumni in Budapest took an hour off their busy schedule and come to visit their Alma Mater on Friday, 12 September (between 1 and 3 pm) to join the CEU Welcome Afternoon. Besides the NGOs and associations coming, students could also meet alumni at the Alumni Tea House 2008, while having cup of tea, coffee and pogacsa served. Check out our  . |
 This year’s CEU Summer University reunited over 450 participants from some 80 countries, including the former Soviet Union, Central and Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia, West Africa, Latin America as well as from Western Europe and North America. Among them, more than 50 alumni from 17 countries arrived on campus.
SUN focused on cutting-edge, transdisciplinary, in-depth research, targeting advanced PhD students, junior researchers, faculty and post-doctoral fellows with courses this year in gender, media, medieval and legal studies as well as in complex systems, philosophy, and comparative religion. |
 On July 18 the Armenian Alumni Chapter held its traditional *Happy Hour*, which brought together three generations: old Alumni, newly graduated Alumni, and accepted students.This was one of the big gatherings representing 10 CEU departments to welcome the returned Alumni and newly accepted students and offer a post-arrival and pre-departure orientation in the atmosphere of social networking. Both the recent graduates and prospective students received packages of materials on Alumni benefits, pre-departure information and list of Alumni of respective CEU departments/schools and their contact information. Warm thanks to the local OSI Office for its kind financial contribution to the event! The Alumni chapter was happy to see that almost all accepted students learnt about CEU some way or another from Alumni, including through recruitment conducted by Alumni in 2007.
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4th CEU Graduate Conference in Social Sciences: Global Transformations: Integration, Transition, and Development, at Central European University.
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 CEU’s Founder George Soros was honored on this special occasion. He recently retired as the Chairman of CEU’s Board, although he remains as Honorary Chairman.
In order to show its appreciation for his extraordinary vision and generosity, the university hosted this very special event.
Alumni representatives Viktoria Karpatska (IRES ’01), Ukraine and Anatoli Belchev (Busi/IMC ’92), Bulgaria along with graduating class 2008 representatives Sachin Kumar Badkas (ENVS – MESPOM), India and Ruairi Osborne (Business School), Ireland presented a scroll with the names of all alumni to George Soros. 
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Viktoria Csozik, Manager at the HR Development and Training Center, Tesa Tape EE, talked about her work, career path and lessons she had learned. The event was part of a series that took place once a month on Mondays at CEU Business School at lunchtime 12.30 to 1.30pm. For the featured speakers, please check the  section.
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CEU alumni gathered in Washington DC on June 6th in Arlington, VA. .
"We had a good turnout for our last event but I encourage you all to invite other CEU alumni that you may know in the area as well. Also, it would be great if everyone could bring a bottle of wine to share amongst the group for Pelin will be supplying the appetizers and the space." (Maria Cvitkovic, HIST ' 05)
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On the occasion of opening the Hungarian Embassy in Latvia, Mr Istvan Mohacsi, Hungarian Ambassador to Latvia cordially invited all CEU alumni in Latvia for a cocktail and friendly talk in Riga.
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Career Fair, May 16, 2008
The largest annual career-related CEU event, the Career Fair, took place this year on May 16, bringing together employers from Hungary, United Kingdom, Belgium, Austria and Czech Republic. Besides more than 15 multinational corporate players coming to meet the students, for the first time, advocacy groups and not-for-profit international organizations were impressively represented as well.
Students benefited from personal meetings and interviews with the employers’ representatives, individual career counseling, interactive presentations and lottery programs throughout the day. These completed their previous trainings regarding CV writing and job interview skills, all aimed to prepare the students for pursuing, after graduation, one of the more than 100 advertised job or internship positions. Half of the participant companies were long-time partners for the Career Fair, motivated by the outstanding attributes of the CEU students for the regional labor market: language skills, international experience and high adaptability in new environments.
ARCS is committed to customizing its services for the recruiters’ needs, and the Career Fair is probably the most visible example. The first step towards this goal was creating a targeted recruitment presence for the Austrian company Schönherr, who became Partner and Strategic Sponsor for the ARCS programs in 2008. Not by coincidence, this law company has employed so far several CEU alumni, at different European offices, and aims to attract the best performers in the future. This model will be soon applied to other employers, for the benefit of the CEU graduates .
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Alumni Council and Key Volunteers Meeting
 On Friday May 16, 2008, key alumni national contacts, members of the Alumni Council and class reunion agents from more than ten countries joined the Alumni Relations and Career Services (ARCS) team for working sessions related to professional career development, fundraising and student recruitment (considering the active and vital role alumni play in the university’s recruitment process). The discussion also touched on the recent linking of the career services to alumni relations highlighting the network of graduates can provide unparalleled career-building and networking opportunities for the use of both students and alumni.
Reunion Dinner 2008
 The same evening, more than 120 alumni and friends coming from some 30 countries gathered in the Budapest Merlin Theatre for the Alumni Reunion Dinner and Spring Ball 2008. CEU graduates came to dine and party with fellow alumni, in the company of their former professors, CEU leadership and staff, as well as friends. The keynote speech was given by Lajos Bokros, CEU COO / Professor, Department of Public Policy / Department of Economics, who noted that CEU is in a healthy position, but it needs to grow to retain its strength, for which the alumni effort and support are vital.
 The Reunion program continued with the Alumni Reunion Raffle, whose profits went directly to the Alumni Scholarship Fund. In addition to having marketed and sold the raffle tickets, the 2007/2008 Alumni Scholarship recipients draw the winning coupons.
 Reunion cocktail served as a venue for anniversary class recognition, class photo, and a transition to the Spring Ball 2008.
The Alumni Reunion Dinner was, for the first time in the reunion history, followed by the CEU Spring Ball, making it the largest annual event, with more than 500 students, alumni, staff and friends taking part. ARCS, the Student Union and the CEU Human Rights Students’ Initiative successfully brought the student and alumni community together, thus providing profitable networking possibilities. The event brought together several generations of alumni and fresh graduates, providing for a great atmosphere and a real sense of community.
to view all photos of the Reunion and Spring Ball 2008.
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The CEU DC Alumni got together on 30 April, Wednesday to catch-up and reorganize the DC network. More than 20 alumni participated in the Happy Hour organized by Maria Cvitkovic, Yuliya England and Valentina Nielsen.
 CEU alumni in Eastern Ukraine were joined by Serge Sych, Head of Alumni Relations & Career Services, at recruitment events at Donetsk National University, and the following alumni gathering. Future students could listen to the experiences of CEU alumni, and receive information about the academic programs and social life at the university.
 CEU alumni gathered together in Kyiv on 14-15 April 2008, and joined the CEU recruitment events at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and the State University of Finance and International Trade in Kyiv. Alumni shared their experiences with future CEU students at the recruitment presentations, and spent a nice evening together at the CEU Kyiv Alumni Meeting.
Budapest, March 15, 2008
The CEU Residence Center in cooperation with the Student Union, Student Life Office and Business School presented the INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL FESTIVAL FRIENDSHIP THROUGH CULTURE. Students and alumni formed international and multiethnic groups, prepared songs, dances, powerpoint photo presentations, etc. and performed in the Festival. The event ended with multinational Dinner prepared by students along with snacks & drinks provided by the residence center.
The French alumni chapter had their first 2008 CEU Alumni meeting on January 30th.The next event of the group will be about a month later, and they hope to meet all alumni nearby! In the picture (from left to right) : Thomas Gerard (France, HUMR '98), Nodira Guerin (Uzbekistan, LEGS '01), Anahit Minasyan (Armenia, HIST '98) and Martin Dinkov (Bulgaria, GENS '00).
The Search Committee for the new president and rector of CEU invited members of the CEU community (faculty, staff, students and alumni) to an open meeting on Saturday, 12 January 2008. The purpose of the meeting was to explain the search process and to invite written nominations of candidates to the Search Committee. The Search Committee also extends its thanks to those who have already written to them.
New Orleans, January 4, 2008
Dear CEU Economics Alumni,
The CEU Economics Department organized an informal get-together at the 2008 ASSA meetings in New Orleans. They met in the Audubon Room of the New Orleans Marriott. All graduates and friends of the CEU Economics Department were invited.
CEU faculty members present included John Earle, Julius Horvath, Attila Ratfai, and Istvan Konya.
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