The Global Development Network (GDN) is now accepting submissions for the 2010 Global Development Awards and Medals Competition. The deadline for development projects is September 9, 2010 and for research proposals/papers is October 18, 2010 on the overall theme of Development Finance. For full details, click here.

The Competition offers cash prizes and travel expenses to all finalists to attend GDN’s Annual Global Development Conference to present their research proposals/papers before an eminent jury for the final round. The final selection and award ceremony will be held in Bogotá, Colombia in January 2011.

CERGE-EI produces almost 50% of quality weighted academic research output in impact factor journals (including those published in the Czech Republic) in the field of economic research in the Czech Republic based on data from the government's database of research output (RIV). For more information please see Daniel Munich's article published in Forum, a journal of the Charles University in Prague (in Czech only).

with distinguished panelists Alan Brown (Global Head of Investment, Schroders Investment Management Ltd., London), Roger Alcaly (Partner, Mt. Lucac Management, New York), Burkhard Dallosch (Managing Director, Finance Group, Deka Immobilien GmbH, Frankfurt) and Jack J. Stack (Director, Erste Bank; former Chair & CEO (ret.), Ceska sporitelna, Prague) was held at CERGE-EI on June 4.

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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.