School of Public Policy

SPP's Professor Kahanec

appointed to the COVID-19 Economic Crisis Council of Slovakia

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How to Ease On-Screen Reading

Here are some practical ways you can still keep up with your readings with a bit of an ease

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SPP is in the process to secure AQ Austria Accreditation

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CEU Ranks in World’s Top 100 Universities

and 30th in SPP's fields. According to 2020 QS World University Rankings

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Mundus MAPP is as a “success story”:

Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture of the European Commission

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ETGN Training Courses are now available for registration at CEU

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SPP students having fun at the Vienna Campus

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SPP becomes an institutional member of IPPA

The International Public Policy Association

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"I want to express my gratitude to the city of Vienna"

Standing ovation for George Soros at the Inauguration in Vienna

Why Study Public Policy?

Hear from some of our students on why they are passionate about public policy.

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Covid 19-related CEU Senate Decisions, Policies and Communications

Dear All, please look to these documents related to COVID 19 communications and decisions by CEU if need be.
SPP is here to support our faculty, staff, students and alumni. OneCEU site has a collection of Rector updates for the community, along with separate communications from the Provost, Dean of Students, on issues such as working from home, guidance to supervisors re work obligations of parents. CEU document repository is where you can find COVID 19 academic decisions, such as grading and extensions, the PhD measures, and cost reimbursement for academics.

LATEST NEWS:

	In a recent article published in World Development, SPP Associate Professors Thilo Bodenstein and Achim Kemmerling take a look at the paradox of redistribution in international aid. Bodenstein and Kemmerling revisit the well-known, and somewhat controversial, paradox of redistribution in rich welfare states: the more you target social policies for the poor, the less you spend on them.
	As a research fellow at the Center for Conflict, Negotiation and Recovery (CCNR), U.S Foreign Service Officer Jay Heung helped build the foundations of CCNR's Aleppo Project. The project aims to develop concrete recommendations for the eventual reconstruction of Aleppo, Syria, while taking into account the voices of those traditionally disadvantaged during the reconstruction process, such as those of refugees and women.
	The George Soros Visiting Chair at the School of Public Policy at CEU was established to celebrate the 80th birthday of George Soros, the founder of CEU and of SPP, and the Honorary Chairman of the CEU Board of Trustees. It is funded by generous donations from his friends and family. The position is awarded to scholars or practitioners who have demonstrated outstanding academic or professional achievement in the academic, professional, journalistic, political, or civic world of public policy.
	"Inspiring." "Pioneering." That's how Joost van Beek describes community media in Europe today. Van Beek is a researcher at SPP's Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS). Together with Kate Coyer, they conducted research on behalf of CMDS for the two-year CAPTCHA (Creative Approaches to Living Cultural Archives) project that concluded in August 2015.
	SPP’s Global Policy Academy (GPA) is organizing a rich schedule of courses this fall on a diverse set of topics: drug policy; military power, conflict management, and terrorism; policymaking; and legal empowerment. “GPA plays an important role at the School of Public Policy,” explained Founding Dean Wolfgang Reinicke.