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PhD Student Wins Distinguished Bulgarian Teaching Award

Petar Stankov, a CERGE-EI PhD candidate, current CERGE-EI Graduate Teaching Fellow and Assistant Professor at Sofia's University of National and World Economy (UNWE) has won that university's 2012 "Teacher of the Year" award. The UNWE was recently ranked as the top university in the country by the Bulgarian Institute for National Policy. Its student community organized the teacher award for the first time this year with all students eligible to vote. A total of two awards were made, one for full professors and one for assistant professors, the latter being won by Petar. Nearly 600 teaching staff were eligible for the prize, which further illustrates the significance of the award.

The entire CERGE-EI community offers Petar its congratulations! Learn more about the impact that the CERGE-EI Teaching Fellows program is having throughout Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS region.

 

CERGE-EI Post-Doctorate Fellowships-Call for Applications

The CERGE-EI Foundation post-doctorate teaching fellowships are intended to support economists who obtained their PhD in the United States or Western Europe and who are assuming a full-time academic position in any country in Central and Eastern Europe (including the countries of the former Soviet Union). The fellowship is $7,200 per year and is guaranteed to be provided for 3 years. If the program receives sufficient funding in the future, the fellowships may be renewed. The fellowship funding is over and above the salary paid by the university where the fellow will teach. For further information and a downloadable application form, please visit the CERGE-EI Post-Doctorate Teaching Fellows page.

The deadline for submitting applications is Friday May 25, 2012.

   

Czech Business Weekly Praises CERGE-EI’s Achievements

CERGE-EI's faculty and the IDEA project earned high accolades from the Czech business weekly Profit in its article on the most influential economists in the country. According to the magazine's custom-made index, Jan Švejnar is the third most publicly visible Czech economist. Among academic economists (ranked according to the RePEc index) CERGE-EI dominates with six faculty members and two graduates in the top ten.

Profit reserved special praise for the IDEA project which it described as the only independent policy oriented think tank in the country. While bemoaning the lack of other similar centers dedicated to evidence-based research and policy making, the article extolled IDEA’s achievements in analyzing and evaluating the government’s current tax and pension reforms and in developing an original proposal for economic reforms.

You can read the whole article in its original Czech version here.

   

Jakub Steiner Wins Scopus Award

CERGE-EI is proud to announce that Jakub Steiner, a researcher at CERGE-EI, was awarded second prize in "Česká naděje 2011 - Scopus Award" for his paper "Who Matters in Coordination Problems?".

February 20, 2012 Read more: Jakub Steiner Wins Scopus Award

   

Jan Svejnar to Lead New Economic Center at Columbia University

Prof. Jan Svejnar, CERGE-EI's co-founder, Chairman of its Executive and Supervisory Committee, and founder of IDEA think-tank, has been appointed as Director of the Center for Global Economic Governance (CGEG) at Columbia University.

January 23, 2012 Read more: Jan Svejnar to Lead New Economic Center at Columbia University

   

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