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MARIE CURIE CLOSING CONFERENCE LOCATION
CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY
NADOR STREET 9
1051 BUDAPEST, HUNGARY
PHONE TO MAIN RECEPTION: (+36-1) 327 3000
CONFERENCE ROOMS
CEU AUDITORIUM, Faculty Tower, Ground Floor
CEU POPPER ROOM, Monument Building, First Floor
CEU GELLNER ROOM, Monument Building, First Floor
ABOUT CENTRAL
EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY
Central European University is a graduate institution in the
social sciences, the humanities, law and management. It is
accredited in both the United States and Hungary, and offers
English-language Master's and doctoral programs. Located in
the heart of Central Europe -- Budapest, Hungary -- CEU has
developed a distinct academic and intellectual focus, combining
the comparative study of the region's historical, cultural,
and social diversity with a global perspective on good governance,
sustainable development and social transformation. As part
of its educational, research, and civic engagement activities,
CEU attaches particular importance to scholarship relevant
to public policy.
The University was founded in 1991 with the explicit aim of
helping the process of transition from dictatorship to democracy
in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. It was committed
to bringing together students from these 30 countries and
from the West in order to nurture respect for diverse cultures
and opinions, human rights, constitutional government, and
the rule of law. In its first decade, CEU sought to contribute
to innovative academic research, progressive higher education
and the development of dynamic, sustainable open society primarily
in the former "socialist" countries. More recently, its interest
has become global, with special attention paid to emerging
democracies throughout the world. These aims – all in step
with promoting the values of the Open Society – remain fundamental
to CEU, but our mission has become global with special attention
to emerging democracies worldwide. Nowadays, half of the applicants
to CEU come from almost 100 countries of all five continents
beyond its historic focus region.
CEU is a research-intensive university with more than 400
out of its 1,600 students pursuing doctoral degrees. Accredited
both in the United States and in Hungary, CEU embraces the
Bologna Process, actively partaking in the modernization of
higher education across Europe, while also cultivating its
ties to leading universities in the US. The university’s commitment
to academic excellence and the social dimension of its mission
are mutually reinforcing: being a regional thought-leader
enables CEU to support and advise policy initiatives for social
and economic reform. CEU has been working hand-in-hand with
the Open Society Institute (OSI), providing academic and professional
backing for OSI’s global agenda of democratic governance,
human rights, and economic, legal and social reform. The university
has also been an active academic partner of local initiatives
to strengthen good governance and address challenges as diverse
as supporting independent media and promoting public health.
CEU’s knowledge-based social engagement not only offers students
a greater academic choice, but also helps to prepare them
for a future of service and leadership. |
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