The interview with CERGE-EI's 100th Ph.D., Dr. Asel Isakova (now at EBRD, London) is now available!

Research seminar entitled "AN EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMIC HISTORY OF WHALERS’ RULES OF CAPTURE" to be given by Prof. Bart Wilson from Chapman University, Orange, California, USA. The seminar will take place at CERGE-EI, Politickych veznu 7, Praha 1, in room # 6 (2nd floor), on Monday, May 10, at 4:30 pm, and will be chaired by Dr. Libor Dusek (CERGE-EI). The details can be found at The Research Seminar Series List.

Research seminar entitled "CURRENCY MISMATCH AND SYSTEMIC RISK IN EMERGING EUROPE" to be given by Dr. Athanasios Vamvakidis from the International Monetary Fund. The seminar will take place at CERGE-EI, Politickych veznu 7, Praha 1, in *** room # 7 *** (2nd floor), on Tuesday, April 27, at 4:30 pm, and will be chaired by Dr. Evangelia Vourvachaki (CERGE-EI). The details can be found at The Research Seminar Series List.

We are very sad to report the sudden death of our colleague Viatcheslav Vinogradov on 28 March 2010, after several weeks of severe illness.
We all knew Slava as a wonderful colleague, enthusiastic teacher and a friend. Slava got his Ph.D. in Math at St.-Petersburg State University in 1992 and an Advanced Degree in Transition Economics at CEU in 1996. He has been at CERGE-EI since 1997. He worked on demographic, health, transition and IO topics, published in international journals including the Economics of Transition and the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, won the Svejnar-Terrell teaching prize in 2003, and his Cook-book of Mathematics, after being used as a textbook at CERGE-EI and a popular teaching tool elsewhere for 10 years, is currently in print.
Slava will be missed by many. Our deepest sympathies go to his family - his wife, two children, one just half a year old, and his mother.

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CERGE-EI, together with GHK, form the Core team coordinating European Employment Observatory (EEO) which contributes to developing the European Employment Strategy (EES) by providing information, comparative research, and evaluation on employment policies and labour market trends in the countries in the EU and EU candidate countries.
The EEO consists of the Core Team (GHK/CERGE-EI) and EEO Networks (Community System of Documentation on Employment - SYSDEM and Mutual Information System on Employment Policies in Europe - MISEP). There are also 20 thematic experts who are available to the EEO to undertake ad hoc research on pan-European themes.
The Core Team's task is to achieve the best possible integration and higher visibility of the work of the Observatory. This is done through the provision of high quality and up to date information and research and the provision of ad hoc services to the European Commission (DG Employment, Equal Opportunities and Social Affairs). The core team coordinates the activities of the EEO networks, liaises with the Commission, and processes expert contributions into regular reports for the Commission, as well as written publications and a public website. The Core Team also produces a monthly EEO newsletter. A quarterly overview of country-level developments in the key employment policy areas can be found in an Executive Summary.

Additionally, at the beginning of 2009, CERGE-EI and GHK created a consortium assisting the European Commission in carrying out the Mutual Learning Programme. The main objectives of this programme have been to encourage and facilitate Member States to learn from each others' experiences and to enhance the transferability of best practices of labour market policies in priority areas of the Lisbon Strategy for Growth and Jobs.
A summary of the main outcomes and policy messages emanating from the MLP activities within the overarching theme is provided in the Synthesis reports.

CERGE-EI was successful in obtaining a grant from the EU Structural Funds (operational program “Prague Adaptability” managed by the City Hall of Prague) with the project entitled “Development and quality enhancement of the Ph.D. in Economics program at CERGE UK”. The main purpose of the project is development and quality enhancement in the academic program run by CERGE-EI. The target group of the project is represented by the current students of CERGE-EI. The main goal of the project is to be pursued through the implementation of the three following tasks:

1. Fostering the motivating stipend program for advanced Ph.D. students
2. Employing advanced Ph.D. students at the project partner’s institution (NHÚ AV ČR)
3. Supporting foreign placements of CERGE-EI Ph.D. students.

Overall, the main objective of the project is to enable the advanced Ph.D. students to fully concentrate on their research. In addition, the project aims at increasing the academic capacity of the research staff at CERGE-EI.

konkretne z Operacniho programu Praha – Adaptabilita rizeneho Magistratem hl. mesta Prahy na projekt „Rozvoj a zkvalitneni doktorskeho studijniho programu ekonomie na CERGE UK“. Hlavnim cilem projektu je, jak uz nazev napovida, rozvoj, zkvalitneni a take zvyseni mezinarodni konkurenceschopnosti Ph.D. programu CERGE-EI. Cilovou skupinou jsou pokrocili studenti doktorskeho studia, kteri jsou podporovani v ramci nasledujicich klicovych aktivit:

1. Podpurny a motivacni stipendijni program pro pokrocile studenty,
2. Zamestnani pokrocilych studentu jako mladych vyzkumnych pracovniku NHU AV CR, v. v. i.,
3. Zahranicni staze studentu.

Projekt studentum umoznuje plne se soustredit na vlastni vyzkumnou praci a zaroven usiluje o zvyseni vyzkumnych kapacit akademickych pracovniku CERGE-EI.