University · Vienna, Austria

Central European University

University in Vienna and Budapest

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About

instance of
inception
  • 1991
founder
native label
  • Central European University
short name
  • CEU

Location and contact

country
located in the administrative territorial entity
location
street address
  • Quellenstraße 51 (de)
postal code
  • 1100
coordinate location
  • 48.1740, 16.3885
official website

People and numbers

count of students
  • 1,500 · 2022
Earlier figures (1)
  • 1,600 · 2021
employees
  • 392 · 2017
rector
2 more

Finances

funder
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $369,700 · award rationale: to set up a new knowledge and data hub for anti-corruption researchers, policy makers, journalists, and civil society · 2023
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $84,700 · award rationale: to support a visiting professorship project that brings distinguished scholars to teach and research at CEU in the Fall 2023 semester · 2023
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $225,000 · award rationale: to provide scholarships for graduate student mobility within the Open Society University Network · 2023
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $1,990,000 · award rationale: to support the execution of Phase IV of the Open Society University Network Threatened Scholars Integration Initiative (OSUN-TSI) · 2023
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $107,578 · award rationale: 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 · 2023
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  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $229,456 · award rationale: to support comprehensive teaching preparation and development for higher education · 2023
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $277,967 · award rationale: to deliver sixteen interdisciplinary Summer University courses, developed by Central European University and partners in the Open Society University Network · 2023
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $34,050 · award rationale: to support translation and dissemination of two edited volumes by research fellows of the Democracy Institute at Central European University · 2023
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $275,300 · award rationale: to support participatory research in response to concrete challenges experienced and raised by civil society · 2023
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $500,000 · award rationale: to support a CEU fellowship program for Eurasian students and scholars at risk because of the ongoing war in Ukraine · 2023
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $157,500 · award rationale: to provide scholarships for graduate student mobility within the Open Society University Network for Spring 2024 · 2023
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $15,000,000 · award rationale: to support research, outreach activities and operating costs of the Budapest site of Central European University in 2023/24 academic year · 2023
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $237,000 · award rationale: to support education, research, and development in archival digital technology and sciences · 2023
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $440,031 · award rationale: to support transitional funding for the Roma Graduate Preparation Program (RGPP) for the academic year 2023/2024 · 2023
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $508,875 · award rationale: to provide operational support · 2023
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $138,250 · award rationale: to support education, research, and development in archival digital technology and sciences · 2023
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $71,654 · award rationale: support to host an event honoring CEU's third President and Rector, Yehuda Elkana · 2023
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $2,889,300 · award rationale: 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 · 2023
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $1,000,000 · award rationale: to provide program-level support for CEU’s educational purposes and to strengthen academic leadership · 2022
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $113,938 · award rationale: to support the continuation of an OSUN program addressing sustainability in rural regions in Lebanon, South Africa, and Kyrgyzstan · 2022
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $253,827 · award rationale: to support Central European University in securing a permanent campus in Austria · 2022
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $648,641 · award rationale: to provide general support · 2022
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $344,540 · award rationale: to fund pre-college, BA, MA, and PhD programs for Roma students at Central European University · 2022
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $230,740 · award rationale: to support a program which will make connections between academic policy research and global organizations outside of an academic context · 2022
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $9,209,201 · award rationale: to support the launch of the OSUN Research Excellence Hub at Central European University's Budapest campus · 2022
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $784,141 · award rationale: to deliver fourteen interdisciplinary Summer University courses, developed by Central European University and partners in the Open Society University Network · 2022
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $257,200 · award rationale: to provide community organizations with research to support their work, conducted by students at CEU and the European Humanities University · 2022
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $237,000 · award rationale: to support education, research and development in archival digital technology and sciences · 2022
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $3,013,575 · award rationale: 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 · 2022
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $2,047,300 · award rationale: to support Central European University's Budapest campus operations and programs · 2021
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $214,535 · award rationale: to deliver eighteen interdisciplinary Summer University courses online, developed by Central European University and partners in the Open Society University Network · 2021
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $230,200 · award rationale: to set up a new knowledge and data hub for anti-corruption researchers, policy makers, journalists, and civil society · 2021
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $145,584,039 · award rationale: to provide general support · 2021
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $237,000 · award rationale: to support education, research and development in archival digital technology and sciences · 2021
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $208,000 · award rationale: to provide community organizations with research to support their work, conducted by students at CEU and the European Humanities University · 2021
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $1,447,456 · award rationale: to provide undergraduate and graduate preparation programs to refugees in Budapest, Vienna, Berlin, and London · 2021
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $97,996 · award rationale: to support an OSUN program addressing sustainability in rural regions in Lebanon, South Africa, and Kyrgyzstan · 2021
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $52,000 · award rationale: 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 · 2021
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $22,300 · award rationale: to support a course examining overlaps in the subject areas of antisemitism, the Holocaust, colonialism, and gender · 2021
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $1,000,000 · award rationale: to provide program-level support for CEU’s educational purposes and to strengthen academic leadership · 2021
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $170,480 · award rationale: to support a program which will make connections between academic policy research and global organizations outside of an academic context · 2021
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $500,000 · award rationale: to support the development of the Democracy Institute in Budapest into a global research hub for OSUN on issues of democratic decay and revival · 2020
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $1,047,000 · award rationale: to strengthen the research capacity at OSUN institutions and support the integration of locally-informed research between different disciplines · 2020
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $237,000 · award rationale: to support education, research and development in archival digital technology and sciences · 2020
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $1,029,450 · award rationale: to plan and establish residential and non-residential fellowships for scholars working in dangerous/hostile regions · 2020
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $540,185 · award rationale: to operate a program offering a free college-level humanities course to educationally disadvantaged and/or impoverished adults in Budapest, Vienna, and Berlin · 2020
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $10,000 · award rationale: 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 · 2020
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $10,000 · award rationale: to support the Open Society Archives fellowship and research project entitled “Socialism as Unique” · 2020
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $22,114,229 · award rationale: 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 · 2020
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $736,500 · award rationale: to develop an OSUN program for executive and professional education for a global audience of students and practitioners · 2020
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $374,400 · award rationale: 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 · 2020
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $152,000 · award rationale: to establish a research platform at OSUN to inform and promote multidisciplinary scholarly research and debate on the concept of open society · 2020
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $30,000 · award rationale: 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 · 2020
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $267,300 · award rationale: to support CEU's Global Teaching Fellowship Program during academic year of 2019/20 · 2019
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $632,500,000 · award rationale: to provide general support · 2019
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $237,000 · award rationale: to support education, research and development in archival digital technology and sciences · 2019
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $11,773,197 · award rationale: to provide general support · 2019
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $114,470 · award rationale: 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 · 2019
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $4,025,000 · award rationale: to support campus technology enhancements and refurbishments, which will help CEU advance on its learning and research ambitions for the Vienna campus · 2019
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $286,428 · award rationale: to support 20 MA International Relations students's participation in the BGIA program in NY. · 2019
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $175,950,000 · award rationale: to provide general support · 2019
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $86,224 · award rationale: 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 · 2019
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $103,370 · award rationale: 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. · 2019
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $10,160,000 · award rationale: to support work related to CEU's new campus in Austria · 2019
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $30,500 · award rationale: to support CMDS's new Journalism Breakthroughs project aiming at sharing knowledge about journalism innovation in a variety of formats · 2019
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $199,294 · award rationale: to conduct research on the outcomes of whole-system education reforms in selected countries · 2019
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $720,680 · award rationale: to support charitable and educational activities of Romani Studies Program (RSP) 2017-2019 · 2018
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $1,800 · award rationale: Private Provision of Public Goods · 2018
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $49,905 · award rationale: to support charitable and educational activities of Society Networked- Joint event with the Center for European Neighborhood Studies, CEU · 2018
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $237,000 · award rationale: to support charitable and educational activities of Cooperation with CEU/2018/OSA · 2018
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $854,970 · award rationale: to support charitable and educational activities of CEU-HESP Collaboration Bridging Grant 2018-19 · 2018
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $105,000 · award rationale: 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 · 2018
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $2,425,162 · award rationale: to support CEU's institutional enhancement required for the 2018-2019 academic year · 2018
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $126,983 · award rationale: 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. · 2018
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $21,175 · award rationale: Deborah Harding Scholarship 2018-2019 · 2018
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $187,917 · award rationale: 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 · 2018
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $237,000 · award rationale: Cooperation with CEU/2017/OSA · 2017
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $5,000 · award rationale: Supplementary support for the Executive course on legal empowerment 2017 · 2017
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $2,876,040 · award rationale: to provide program level support to CEU for their efforts to support educational activities and build collaboration with the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) · 2017
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $98,587 · award rationale: 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. · 2017
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $750 · award rationale: Supplementary grant to Executive course on justice and development 2016 · 2017
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $102,000 · award rationale: Executive course on legal empowerment 2017 · 2017
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $76,648 · award rationale: Executive Course on Roma Health and Policy: Equality and Participation · 2017
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $102,582 · award rationale: Summer Institute on Social Exclusion and Discrimination of Children and Youth (Summer School 2017) · 2017
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $32,000 · award rationale: 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 · 2017
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $21,242 · award rationale: Scholarship for a Roma student pursuing a Masters in Public Policy · 2017
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $5,000,000 · award rationale: 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 · 2016
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $34,000 · award rationale: 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. · 2016
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $99,758 · award rationale: CEU Global Teaching Fellowship Scheme 2017-18 Additional Support · 2016
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $27,870 · award rationale: Innovative Financing for Education: Arguments, Options and Implications (Summer School 2016) · 2016
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $131,328 · award rationale: CEU Refugee Access Initiative (RAI): Enhancing Refugee and Migrant Access to Higher Education · 2016
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $68,040 · award rationale: Research for book covering Moldova’s struggle towards a viable state - Phase III · 2016
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $281,940 · award rationale: Roma Access Programs 2015-2016 · 2016
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $21,120 · award rationale: Deborah Harding Scholarship 2016-2017 · 2016
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $320,000 · award rationale: Roma In European Societies Initiative and Roma Graduate Preparation Program at CEU, 2016-2017 · 2016
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $130,059 · award rationale: to support the Migration Policy in a European Context course (2017-2018) · 2016
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $20,000 · award rationale: ILLIBERAL GOVERNANCE: Signature Conference of CEU’s Frontiers of Democracy Initiative · 2016
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $10,000 · award rationale: 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. · 2016
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $477,528 · award rationale: CEU-HESP Collaboration Framework Proposal 2016-2018 · 2016
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $80,000 · award rationale: This grant covered the organization of the second Legal Empowerment Leadership Course which took place from Monday, October 10 to Friday, October 14, 2016. · 2016
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $76,408 · award rationale: 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 · 2016

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