The Center for Policy Studies
Web: cps.ceu.hu
The Center for Policy Studies (CPS) based at the Central European University works for better government and administration in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union through public policy teaching and research. The CPS carries out research projects, is involved in several international projects funded within the Framework Programmes, develops materials for teaching and training, offers a masters degree in public policy and, in conjunction with the Open Society Institute, sponsors policy research in transition and emerging democracies. The Center is committed to the development of indigenous policy capacities and offers an on-line library of policy research papers from the region. An active member of several policy networks, CPS organizes conferences, workshops and public events to encourage interaction between academics, policy institutes and policy makers and to promote exchange of expertise and best practice.
The Center for Policy Studies was initiated in 2000, and has since grown to the largest research center within the Central European University, mainly maintained by external funds. The Central European University (CEU) was established in 1991 by a group of visionary intellectuals led by the philanthropist George Soros. CEU was to be an unusual graduate school for the Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union (CEE/fSU) region, an independent international institution offering a curriculum in the social sciences and the humanities, committed to promoting a new model of learning: serious and morally responsible intellectual engagement inspired by, and in the service of, pressing and challenging social needs.
