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Dan O’Brien Shares Views on Reasons for Ireland’s Success, and Prospects for Europe

March 19, 2015

The School of Public Policy (SPP) at Central European University and the Embassy of Ireland in Hungary organized a public lecture and discussion by Dan O’Brien, chief economist at the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA) on March 16.

Passion Projects Provide SPP Students with Opportunities for Learning in Action

March 17, 2015
Representatives from the European Stability Initiative (ESI), Human Rights Watch (HRW), and The Linkage Project traveled to Budapest to participate in a Passion Project workshop with SPP students on Saturday, March 14.

Datafication is Transforming Citizenship in Cities Around the World

March 16, 2015
Alison Powell posed a number of interesting questions during her public lecture on March 12 hosted by the Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS). Her talk focused on how datafication influences the transformation of cities, what role brokers play in the making of cities, and on the shift in the meaning of citizenship.

Getting Drones Right

March 12, 2015
Assistant Professor Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick has just published an insightful article at Mobilizing Ideas, an online publishing platform dedicated to “interdisciplinary perspectives on social movements, social change, and the public sphere.”

School of Public Policy Welcomes Budapest Open 2015 Debaters

March 12, 2015
Hundreds of students traveled to Budapest on March 6-8 to participate in the Budapest Open 2015 Debate Tournament at CEU. The Debating Society of CEU in association with ELTE and Corvinus University hosted the three-day debate tournament, which was won by Nika Jelanska and Peer Klussendorf from Zagreb.