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CERGE-EI News at the Turn of the Year 2015

1 January, 2016

The highlights of the year 2015 by Michal Kejak, Director of CERGE-EI (Download PDF).

Dear friends, colleagues and supporters of CERGE-EI,

With the turn of the year, I want to warmly thank you all once again for your generous support of and commitment to CERGE-EI. I would also like to use this opportunity to briefly summarize what we have achieved together in the past year in fulfilling our research and educational mission. In many respects, 2015 was an exceptional year for CERGE-EI.

CERGE-EI Wins a Postgraduate Fellowship from UniCredit & Universities Foscolo Foundation

18 December, 2015

CERGE-EI succeeded in the UniCredit & Universities Foscolo Europe international competition and won a three-year postgraduate fellowship in a total of EUR 150 thousand. The competition was announced by the UniCredit & Universities Foscolo Foundation, which is connected with UniCredit, a leading European banking group.

Volha Audzei Wins a František Vencovský Prize for Young Economists

2 December, 2015

CERGE-EI is proud to announce that Volha Audzei, a PhD student and junior researcher at CERGE-EI, was awarded a share of first prize in the 2015 Prof. František Vencovský Prize.

CERGE-EI Students Dominate Young Economist of the Year Competition

30 November, 2015

We are proud to announce that CERGE-EI doctoral students have again taken all three top prizes in this year's Young Economist of the Year competition of the Czech Economic Society.

Conference "Labor Economics and Its Public Policy Impact on Economic Growth" - Summary

24 November, 2015

CERGE-EI’s prestigious economic conference entitled “Labor Economics and Its Public Policy Impact on Economic Growth,” which took place on Saturday, 21 November, 2015, discussed the “uberization” of labor markets and the essentiality of social science research to the quality of public policies, especially at the level of national economies.

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