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New Academic Year at CERGE-EI

23 September, 2025

While October brings new beginnings, new faces, and new ideas to all academic institutions, this year is particularly special for CERGE-EI.

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Ružica Šimić Banović — A Bridge Between Academia and Policy

16 September, 2025

In an interview for the CERGE-EI blog titled “Bridging Academia and Policy”, Professor Ružica Šimić Banović shares how her research intersects with policy work and what it takes to influence real change in gender equality, migration, and informal institutions.

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Final Workshop of a Visegrad+ Project

6 September, 2025

From August 29 – September 4, the final workshop of the project “Localizing Economic Education for V4 Countries and Beyond” took place at CERGE-EI. This project of Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, in partnership with the CERGE-EI Foundation, was co-financed by Visegrad+ Grants from the International Visegrad Fund.

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Meet Our Alumni: Rastislav Rehák

26 August, 2025

In the new alumni interview, Rastislav Rehák reflects on his postdoctoral journey at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods and the University of Cologne, where he explores new directions in behavioral and environmental economics.

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Meet Our Students: Sook Yan Siew’s search for training in core economics

20 August, 2025

In this interview, Sook Yan Siew recounts her inspiring journey from Asia to Prague, sharing her path through development economics, her experience in CERGE-EI’s PhD program, and her role as an international student ambassador at Charles University.

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