Central European University A Program for University Teachers, Advanced Ph.D. Students, Researchers and Professionals in the Social Sciences and Humanities Summer University

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Key Facts

The nine summer schools held so far (1996-2004) hosted 168 courses, received 15,230 applications; 4,634 participants attended and 1237 faculties taught the various courses.

Participant profile

Participants have been accepted into the program from 92 different countries ranging from East and Central Europe and the former Soviet Union to countries of Asia, Africa, North America and South America. 2,943 (64%) came from regional emerging democracies, 1,100 (24%) from countries that became new EU member states in 2004, 251 (5%) from non-regional emerging democracies, and 339 (7%) from developed countries. The majority of participants are junior faculty and researchers, the rest of the participant body is constituted from Ph.D. students, and professionals such as government officials, NGO workers, etc.

Faculty profile

Professors have come to teach courses from 53 different countries so far. 11% of faculty were from the region, 33% from countries that became new EU member states in 2004, 54% from Western Europe, America, Canada, Australia, Israel and Japan, 2% from non-regional emerging democracies. Institutions SUN faculty came from include

universities, e.g. Columbia University, Cornell, Harvard, Stanford, University of California, University of South Carolina, Yale University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Charles University Prague, Eotvos Lorand University of Sciences Budapest, Moscow State University, University of Ljubljana, University of Bucharest, Warsaw University, Catholic University of Leuven, London School of Economics, University of London, University of Manchester, University of Oxford, University of Reading, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Sabanci University, etc.

research institutes, e.g. Max Planck Institute, various institutes of the Academy of Sciences in the region, Independent Research Institute for Industrial Relations in Europe, Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning in Germany, Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies in the Netherlands, etc.

international organisations, e.g. UNICEF, World Food Program, The World Bank Institute, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe, Conflict Management International, etc.

for more detailed statistics please feel free to contact the SUN Office at summeru@ceu.hu 

 

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