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OSUN

The Open Society University Network (OSUN), a new global consortium of educational institutions led by CEU and Bard College that integrates learning and the advancement of knowledge across geographic and demographic boundaries, promotes civic engagement on behalf of open societies, and expands access to higher education for underserved communities. 

OSUN counts over 40 partner institutions from Berlin to Bishkek, Dhaka to Bogota, and some of the world’s most prestigious organizations from the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs to the Institut fur die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, among its members.  

The CEU Democracy Institute plans teaching, research, and training activities with OSUN partners, from the exchange of scholars to developing and teaching short courses on democracy and democratization for faculty.   

New Project for Research Incubation and Education on “Democracy and Development”

We are happy to announce the launch of our new project financed by the Open Society University Network to provide a platform for creative and critical collaboration between scholars from the Global South and the Global North with a focus on Democracy and Development.

Academics Facing Autocracy Program Launched

The OSUN Global Visiting Fellowship brings together a team that on its first meeting on February 23 set out to establish a framework to study the various cases of academics resisting authoritarian regimes’ attacks on education by creating alternative ways of higher education.

Call for Applications: Invisible University for Ukraine, Spring 2023

After the successful 2022 Spring and Fall Semesters, we are continuing the certificate program for junior and senior undergraduate (BA) and graduate (MA and PhD) students from Ukraine, whose studies have been affected by the war.

Balazs Trencsenyi on the Invisible University for Ukraine

The Invisible University for Ukraine prepares students for “a post-war situation where there will be reconstruction and engagement that may be international, not just national,” Balazs Trencsenyi, lead researcher of our Democracy in History Workgroup said to University World News.  

Call for Applications: Invisible University for Ukraine

After the successful 2022 Spring Semester, we are continuing the certificate program for junior and senior undergraduate (BA) and graduate (MA and PhD) students from Ukraine, whose studies have been affected by the war.

Social Movement Resource Bank Launched

We are happy to announce that the new resource bank of the joint History of Our Struggles project of the CEU Democracy Institute and the School of Public Life (Közélet Iskolája) has been launched.

DI Welcomes New OSUN Fellows

We are happy to announce that 9 new fellows are joining the CEU Democracy Institute in the framework of the CEU Budapest-OSUN Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowship Program.

Antisemitism, Holocaust, Colonialism, Gender: Connecting the Conversations

This OSUN Network Collaborative Course sought to investigate a complex set of critical linkages and points of intersection between four distinct, but overlapping, areas of inquiry: antisemitism, the holocaust, colonialism, and gender.

Call for Applications: Invisible University for Ukraine

Central European University is launching a certificate program for BA, MA and PhD students from Ukraine, whose studies have been affected by the war, whether still residing in Ukraine or in refuge.

New Project: Global Corruption Observatory

The DI joined forces with the CEU Department of Public Policy, University of Los Andes, BRAC University and SciencesPo to create a Global Corruption Observatory, supported by the Open Society University Network.