Career Integration Fellowships
CERGE-EI Career Integration Fellowships are available for Western-Educated Economists returning to Central and Eastern Europe to take full-time academic posts.
Applications for Fellowships beginning in Autumn 2013 have been processed and the awardees are listed below.
The deadline for submitting applications was May 24, 2013. Please check this website in early 2014 for information about the next round.
The CERGE-EI Foundation provides fellowships for economists who obtained their PhD in the North America, Australia/New Zealand or Western Europe and who are assuming a full-time academic position in any country in Central and Eastern Europe or the countries of the former Soviet Union. The purpose of the fellowship is to make academic careers in the post-communist countries more attractive for such graduates by providing supplemental income that should bridge the gap between academic and private sector salaries. The fellowship also provides a set of services designed to improve the academic environment for the fellow.
The donor who provided funding for the fellowships has a desire to improve the quality of economics education in Central and Eastern Europe. Young graduates from North American, Australian/New Zealand or Western European universities who accept academic positions in the region are essential to that purpose. The Career Integration Fellowship was established in 2007 (and until 2012, it was known as the "Teaching Fellows Post-Doctorate Fellowship"), initially for PhD graduates from CERGE-EI in Prague. Starting in 2009, the fellowships have been extended to PhD graduates from any university in the Western academic world.
The fellowship is $7,200 per year and is guaranteed to be provided for 3 years. If the program receives sufficient funding in the future, fellowships may be renewed. The fellowship is over and above the salary paid by the university where the fellow will teach.
Current CERGE-EI Career Integration Fellows
2013 Awardees (2013-2016)
Ruslan Aliyev (PhD CERGE-EI, expected 2013)
Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy, Baku, Azerbaijan
Aleksandr Grigoryan (PhD University of Turin, 2009)
College of Business and Economics, American University of Armenia (AUA), Yerevan, Armenia
Dmitri Kolyuzhnov (PhD CERGE-EI, 2008)
Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia
Katarzyna Maciejowska (PhD European University Institute, 2010)
Institute of Organization and Management/Economics Department, Wrocław University of Technology, Poland
Natasha Trajkova (PhD Staffordshire University, 2013)
University St. Kliment Ohridski (UKLO), Bitola, Macedonia
Urmatbek Tynaliev (PhD University of Minnesota, 2009)
International Ataturk Alatoo University, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic
2012 Awardees (2012-2015)
Anna Lovász (PhD University of Washington, 2008)
Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Dept. of Economics, Budapest, Hungary
Elena Mielcová (PhD CERGE-EI, 2002)
Faculty of Business Administration, Silesian University, Opava, Czech Republic
Nermin Oruč (PhD Staffordshire University, 2011)
International University of Sarajevo, Faculty of Economics Business Administration, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Marjan Petreski (PhD Staffordshire University, 2011)
University American College Skopje, School of Business Economics and Management, Department of Economics, Skopje, Macedonia
Zsolt Sándor (PhD University of Groningen, 2001)
Sapientia University, Faculty of Economic and Human Sciences, Miercurea Ciuc, Romania
Nurmukhammad Yusupov (PhD University of Nantes, 2011)
Urgench State University, Dept of Economics, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
2011 Awardees (2011 - 2014)
Karel Janda (PhD CERGE-EI, 1996)
Faculty of Finance, University of Economics in Prague and
Department of Microeconomics and Mathematical Methods, Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague
Hubert János Kiss (PhD University of Alicante, 2009)
Department of Economics, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, Hungary
Martina Lubyová (PhD CERGE-EI, 2002)
Department of Statistics, Faculty of Economic Informatics, Economics University in Bratislava
2010 Awardees (2010 - 2013)
Anikó Bíró (PhD Central European University, 2010)
Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, Hungary
(withdrawn in 2011, accepted full-time position at the University of Edinburgh)
Inna Čábelková (PhD CERGE-EI, 2002)
Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague
Farrukh Irnazarov (PhD University of Groningen, in process)
National University of Uzbekistan
Dmitri Kolyuznov (PhD CERGE-EI, 2008)
Novosibirsk State University, Russia
Katarína Svítková (PhD CERGE-EI, 2007)
Anglo-American University, Prague, Czech Republic
Pavel Vacek (PhD Cornell University, 2007)
Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague
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