Ceu Summer University

Central European University – Summer University

Hungary 2006

A Program for University Teachers, Advanced Ph.D. Students, Researchers, and Professionals in the Social Sciences and Humanities

June 26- July 28, 2006

Table of Contents

Mission 1

Eligibility 3

Program Costs 3

Financial Aid 3

Instructions How to Fill in the Application Form 4

Local CEU Representatives (Coordinator) Addresses 5

CEU Summer University Application Form 6

I. Course 6

II. Personal Data 6

III. Previous Funding and Scholarships 7

IV. Financial Information 7

V. Educational Background 8

VI. Professional Experience 8

VII. English Language 9

VIII. Attachments 10

IX. Statement of Purpose 11

X. Supplementary Background Information 12

XI. How did you find out about Summer University? 12

XII. Letter of Recommendation 13

Mission

Established in 1996, CEU’s Summer University program hosts high-level, research-oriented, interdisciplinary and innovative academic courses as well as workshops on policy issues for professional development in the social sciences and the humanities. Courses involve distinguished international faculty (including CEU professors), and excellent advanced doctoral students, junior or post-doctoral researchers, teachers and professionals as participants. While application from all over the world is encouraged, continued priority is given to applicants from Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and countries experiencing emerging democracies worldwide. Applicants from these countries, when admitted on merit, will be eligible for scholarship, while those from developed countries will usually be expected to pay fees.

Course offerings cater for the various needs of academic and professional development across a wide spectrum of disciplines. These include anthropology, cultural studies, environmental sciences, comparative religion, political science, public policy, sociology, international relations, legal studies, etc. The program encourages topics in newly emerging fields and transdisciplinary approaches.

The program is unique in its diversity of faculty and student body as well as its academic offerings. It brings together groups of interested individuals to study together intensively for two or three weeks in Budapest coming from an enormously varied geographical, cultural and academic background. Participants have been accepted into the program from 99 different countries ranging from East and Central Europe and the former Soviet Union to countries of Asia, Africa, North America and South America. The courses are taught by a team of teachers who also represent a wide range of countries in an effort to match the diversity of the student body. Professors have come from approximately 48 different countries from the region as well as mostly from Western Europe and America. This exciting multi-cultural composition of the courses provides a stimulating environment for engaging participants and faculty in an inspiring and enriching dialogue during the summer school.

Applications are invited from all countries worldwide on a scholarship or fee-paying basis.

CEU SUN encourages all candidates to submit their application on-line at
https://online.ceu.hu/osun

Eligibility

·  Minimum requirement for application is a university degree. Undergraduates without a university degree will not be considered. The program encourages applications from advanced Ph.D. students, postdoctoral fellows, junior faculty, researchers and professionals. Before submitting your application please check at http://www.ceu.hu/sun/whether the course of your choice has any additional course-specific application requirements or deadlines.

·  The language of instruction is English; thus all applicants have to demonstrate a strong command of spoken and written English to be able to participate actively in discussions at seminars and workshops. (In some instances you may be contacted for a telephone interview.)

·  Individuals are not eligible to apply to a SUN course if they attended a CRC (Curriculum Resource Center) session in the same calendar or academic year (i.e., they must wait one year after their participation in one of the above programs before applying to SUN). Additionally, applicants are not eligible to apply to SUN if they have already participated in two CEU faculty initiative activities (i.e., CRC, SUN) within a four-year period. Preference will be given to new applicants over former participants in Summer University courses.

Program Costs

The general program costs are the following:

One-week course / Two-week course
Tuition fee* / €250 / €500
Accommodation / ·  €17 per night for a double room, including breakfast (Scholarships cover only the cost of rooms with double occupancy.) / €102 / €221
·  €28 per night for a single room, including breakfast / €168 / €364

* Please note that the tuition fee is different for the “Total Law ™” and the “Strategic Corruption Control and Organizational Integrity” courses (see details on the web site).

Applicants from developed countries

Participants from developed countries can be admitted on a fee-paying basis, i.e. they are expected to cover their participation costs, which include tuition, travel, accommodation, insurance and living expenses. However, there are a limited number of tuition waivers available, which may be applied for on a competitive basis. If you wish to apply for a tuition waiver, please attach a cover letter to your application specifying your reasons.

Financial Aid

Participants from Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union and Mongolia, as well as those coming from emerging democracies worldwide can apply for financial aid. See the various financial aid packages below.

1.  Tuition waiver

The tuition fee is provided. Recipients have to cover their own insurance, travel, accommodation and living expenses. Hungarian participants with residence in Budapest should choose this category.

2.  Partial Scholarship

Includes tuition fee, accommodation and insurance. The recipients of the scholarship have to cover their travel and living expenses.

3.  Full Scholarship

Includes tuition fee, accommodation, a full or partial travel grant, and insurance. The recipients of the scholarship have to cover their living expenses.

The Full Scholarships may include a full or partial travel grant which can be applied for on a competitive basis and will be available in a limited number. The maximum travel grant awarded is EUR 1,160; visa costs and short domestic trips are not reimbursed. The citizens of the following countries are not eligible to apply for a travel grant: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia and the western part of Ukraine, i.e. they should choose the Partial Scholarship.

The scholarships do not include living expenses, participants have to cover these on their own. Living expenses including local transportation and meals are estimated to be EUR 170 for two weeks.

As the number of fully funded scholarships available is limited, funding offered by institutions or individuals is welcome so that we can invite more well qualified applicants. When choosing the financial aid package, please consider if you or your institution can contribute to the program expenses. Faculty and Ph.D. students are advised to approach their home departments for travel grants; researchers may have research grants available which can cover their participation; professionals may turn to their employers to fund their training at SUN. While selection of applicants will be based on the academic merit of the applications, those willing to bear the participation costs fully or partially will be preferred in case of equally strong applications.

Instructions How to Fill in the Application Form

Please read the following directions carefully. Failure to follow the guidelines below may result in the withdrawal of your application from the selection procedure.

1. Type or print only and provide all requested information in English.

2. You are allowed to apply to a maximum of two courses, but will only be able to attend one if accepted. You can, however, be accepted to two courses if they are run consecutively. One copy of this application form, a letter of recommendation and attachments must be submitted for each course to which you are applying. Those who apply to more than one course should send a separate set of letters of recommendation and attachments (customized, if necessary, to the differing needs and requirements of the two courses). Applicants who have not indicated the course to which they are applying will not be considered.

3. All sections of the application must be completed and all attachments must be included with this form. The letter/s of recommendation can be mailed by the applicant or by the referee/s.

4. Your application must be received by mail by the CEU Summer University Office no later than February 14, 2006. Please note that the application deadline for the Intergovenmental Fiscal Relations course is December 15, 2005; accepted applicants will start the distance learning phase on January 15.

Applications submitted after the deadline will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Faxed or e-mailed attachments or recommendations will not be processed.

5. If you apply through the on-line registration system (https://online.ceu.hu/osun), please send the attachments (see section IX) via mail by the deadline (see above).

6. The SUN Office will notify applicants about the selection results by the end of April. The final decision is not open to appeal.

CEU Summer University Office

Postal address: 1051 Budapest, Nádor u. 9. Hungary v Visitors’ address: 1051 Budapest, Zrínyi u. 14. Hungary

Tel: (36-1) 328-3698, Fax: (36-1) 328-3698 or (36-1)327-3124

E-mail for inquiry and correspondence:

Automatic e-mail to request application forms:

WWW address: http://www.ceu.hu/sun

On-line registration: https://online.ceu.hu/osun

Non-discrimination policy statement

Central European University does not discriminate on the basis of – including, but not limited to – race, color, national and ethnic origin, religion, gender or sexual orientation in administering its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.

Local CEU Representatives (Coordinator) Addresses

The individuals listed below may be contacted for general information on CEU SUN and the courses offered.

Country / Name of Foundation / Email and Foundation Address / Phone / Fax
Albania / Open Society Foundation / Rruga Pjeter Bogdani, Pallati 23/1, Tirana / 355 4 235071 / 355 42 35855
Armenia / OSI Assistance Foundation Armenian Branch / 1 Pushkin St., apt. 2, Yerevan, 375010, Armenia / 374 1 542119 / 374 1 542119
Azerbaijan / Baku Education Information Center / 183 S.Rahimov str., Baku AZ3714 / 994 12 937746 / 994 12 937746
Baltic states / Educational Advising Center / Sauletekio St. 9 (VU Skaiciavimo Centre), room 107, LT-10222 Vilnius / 370 5 2366274 / 370-5-2699788
Belarus / American Center / , Pr. Skorini, room 512, 220114 Minsk, Belarus / 375 17 2181264 / 375 17 2181264
Bosnia and Herzegovina / Student Resource Center / , Univerzitetski kampus "KMT", Zmaja od Bosne bb, 71000 Sarajevo / 387 33 206048 / 387 33 212032
Bulgaria / Open Society Institute / 56, Solunska St., 1000 Sofia / 359 2 9306640 / 359 2 9516348
Croatia / SIC - International Educational Center / , Preradoviceva 33/I, 10000 Zagreb / 385 1 4817195 / 385 1 4555150
Czech Republic / Academic Information Center - ICN / Male namesti 12, 11000 Praha 1 / 420 224 239876 / 420 224 239875
Georgia / Open Society - Georgia Foundation, Int’l Student Advising Center / 10 Chovelidze St., 0108 Tbilisi / 995 32 252615, 250463 / 995 32 291052
Kazakhstan / Educational Development Center BILIM - Central Asia / lgorbunova@bilim..kz, , , , / 7 3272 597620/22 / 7 3272 795955
Kosovo / American Center Foundation / , , Bibloteka Kombëtare e Univerzitare University of Prishtina, Mother Teresa Boulevard, Pristina / 381 (0)38 248-887 / 381 (0)38 248-886
Kyrgyzstan / Soros Foundation - Kyrgyzstan / , Logvinenko 55A, 720040 Bishkek / 996 312 664249 / 996 312 663448
Macedonia / Foundation Open Society Institute-Macedonia / bul. Jane Sandaski br. 111, sprat 4 (P.O.Box 387), 91000 Skopje / 389 02 444488/190 / 389 02 444499
Malaysia / WisDen EduPark sdn. bhd. / 38B, 2nd floor, Jalan SS15/8 / 6(03) 5637 0503, 5637 1311, / 6(03) 5631 1946
Moldova / Educational Advising Center / , 148 Stefan cel Mare bd, Chisinau, MD-2012 / 373 22221172 / 373 22221167
Mongolia / Educational Advising Resource Center / Cultural Palace Complex building, Youth & Children's Library, 1st floor, Ulaanbaatar-46 / 97611 319016, 316293 / 97611 326941
Montenegro / Pedagogical Center of Montenegro / Sv. Petra Cetinjskog 25, 81 000 Podgorica / 381 81 248-668, 248-667 / 381 81 248-668, 248-667
Poland / Center for Social Studies / Nowy Swiat 72, 00 330 Warsaw / 48 22 6572758 / 48 22 6572758
Romania-Bucharest / Open Society Foundation / 33 Caderea Bastiliei, 711391 Bucharest / 40 21 2121101 / 40 21 2121032
Romania-Cluj / Ethnocultural Diversity Resource Center (EDRC) / , Tebei St. 21, 3400 Cluj-Napoca / 40 264 420480 / 40 264 420491
Russia-Moscow / Open Society Institute / , ul. Marksistskaya, 16, Moscow 109147 / 7 095 7307811 ext.2323 / 7 095 730 78 14
Russia-St. Petesburg / European University at St. Petersburg / , 3 Gagarinskaya Str., 191187 St. Petersburg / 7 812 2755137, 2751130 / 7 812 2755139
Russia-Vladivostok / FESU / ,Oktyabrskaya 27, office 207, 690000 Vladivostok, Russia / 7 4232 515433 / 7 4232 515433
Russia- Samara / Language & Education Educational Center / , 34 Moskovskoe shosse, build. 3B of.14, Samara 443086 / (7 846)267-45-24 / (7 846)267-45-24
Russia- Omsk / Omsk State Pedagogical University / , , / 7(3812)243795
Russia-Novosibirsk / Central European University - Russia-Siberia / TBA / 7 913 902 27 88 / TBA
Serbia / Belgrade Open School (BOS) / Masarikova 5/16, 11000 Belgrade / 381 11 3061371 / 381 11 3613112
Slovakia / Open Society Foundation-Bratislava / Slovak Academic Information Agency (SAIA) / 421/2/5441 1426, 5441 1436 / 421/2/5441 1429
Slovenia / Faculty of Social Sciences / Kardeljeva pl. 5, 1000 Ljubljana / 386 1 5805305 / 386 1 5805102
Taiwan / World Education Group / 10F, No. 30-1, Gong-Yuan Road, Taipei 10039, Taiwan, R.O.C. / (02)2388 5655 / (02)2388 0549
Tajikistan / OSI-Tajikistan / 1 Firdavsi St., 734001Dushanbe / 992 372 213260 / 992 372 510142
Ukraine- Dnipropetrovsk / Educational Advising Center “Osvita” / K.Marks avn. 60, office 74, 75, Dnipropetrovsk 49000, Ukraine / 380 56 7446242 / 380 56 7446242
Ukraine-Kharkiv / Osvita Educational Advising Center / 4 Svoboda Sq. Kharkiv National University Library, room 45, 61051 Kharkiv; PO Box 1871, 61091 Kharkiv / 380 572 7020165 / 38 572 302165
Ukraine-Kyiv / International Renaissance Foundation / Bekhterivs'kiy provulok, 13a, 04053 Kyiv; / 380 44 4619500 / 380 44 2160166
Ukraine-Lviv / Educational Advising Center "OSVITA" / prosp. Chornovola 4, 1st floor, Lviv; PO Box 1596, 79019 Lviv / 380 322 971206 / 380 322 971794
Ukraine-Odessa / Educational Advising Center"Osvita" / , kim.113, d.16, vul.Gogolya, 65026 Odessa / 380 48 7165288 / 380 48 7165288
United States of America / Open Society Institute / 400 West 59th Street New York, NY 10019 / (1 212) 548 0600 / (1 212) 548 4665
Vietnam / International Consultancy and Educational Development / Building K, Thang long International Village, Tran Dang Ninh Street, Cau Giay - Hanoi - Vietnam / (984-4) 791 0899 / 791 0889 / (84-4) 791 0889

CEU Summer University Application Form

This application may be photocopied and is free of charge