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SPP Students and Clients Advance Their Passion Projects

March 4, 2015
Passion Projects
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The School of Public Policy (SPP) at CEU organized a day-long Passion Project Planning workshop on February 28. Representatives from three Passion Project clients (International Crisis Group (ICG), UN Habitat, and the UN Office of the Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide & Responsibility to Protect) traveled to Budapest to meet with teams of SPP students.

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Tech Critic Jillian C. York Says Social Media is Changing Political and Geographic Reality

March 2, 2015
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Writer and activist Jillian C. York, who is the director for international freedom of expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (ECF), offered a global perspective during a public lecture at Central European University (CEU) on February 26, hosted by the Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS).

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SPP Students Organize Policy Cafes to Discuss Pressing Issues

March 2, 2015
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Co-founded by six School of Public Policy (SPP) and the Department of Public Policy (DPP) students, the Policy Cafe brings together students from SPP and DPP to discuss key policy issues. “I wanted to bring our discussions offline in an open roundtable setting,” commented Nuruddin Ahmed (MPA '16). The cafe provides a welcoming atmosphere for debates on today’s global concerns.

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New Policy Paper Explores Strategies for Countering Populist Mobilization in Europe

February 27, 2015
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Following a successful one-day forum, “Rolling Back the Rollback: Spaces & strategies for reviving democracy and open societies in Europe,” the School of Public Policy at CEU has published a policy paper that takes a deeper look into the mechanisms of populist mobilization - one of the main symptoms of democratic backsliding.

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SSRN Levels the Playing Field, Says Gregg Gordon

February 27, 2015
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In a public lecture co-hosted by the Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) and the CEU Library, Gregg Gordon explained how the Social Science Research Network (SSRN), the leading social science research repository in the world, is “causing problems and creating opportunities.”

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