Career Integration Fellowships

Throughout the post-communist world, societies desperately need better understanding of fundamental economic principles. CERGE-EI Teaching Fellows’ Career Integration Fellowships enable talented young people with Western PhDs to return to their home countries and assume full-time university positions. Back in their home country, these passionate teachers play a key role in creating support for both free minds and free markets. 

Career Integration Fellowships provide crucial salary supplements, modern pedagogical training, access to electronic literature and data, and a support network of like-minded scholars.The fellowship also provides the opportunity to organize research stays at CERGE-EI.

The fellowship carries an award of $7200 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 provided over and above the salary paid by the university where the fellow will teach.

Apply for a Career Integration Fellowship

CERGE-EI Career Integration Fellowships (CIFs) are available for Western-educated economists returning to Central and Eastern Europe and the countries of the former Soviet Union to take full-time academic posts. 

The call for applications for CIF fellowships beginning in the 2015-16 academic year has been released. It can be downloaded here.

The deadline for applications was April 1, 2015. We will accept later applications on a rolling basis after that deadline. Applicants who have confirmed job offers at the time of application can request that their applications be considered on an accelerated basis, provided the applicant can confirm that their acceptance of the job offer is conditional upon receiving the fellowship.

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Countries where Career Integration Fellows are currently teaching:

Map showing countries where Career Integration Fellows teach
Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Uzbekistan

Current CERGE-EI Career Integration Fellows

2014 Awardees (2014-2017)

Vardan Baghdasharian (PhD Catholic University of Milan, Italy, 2014)
American University of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia

Anna Bogomolova (PhD CERGE-EI, 2014)
Novosibirsk State University, Russia

Lukáš Lafférs (PhD Norwegian School of Economics, 2014)
Matej Bel University, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia

Hyrije Abazi-Alili (PhD Staffordshire University, 2013)
South East European University, Tetovo, Macedonia

Petra Baji (PhD University of Maastricht, 2013)
Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary

Ismail Baydur (PhD University of Virginia, 2014)
ADA University, Baku, Azerbaijan

Paola Bertoli (PhD European Doctorate [Universities of Bologna, Hamburg and Erasmus-Rotterdam], 2010)
Prague Economics University (VŠE), Prague, Czech Republic

Daniel Horn (PhD Central European University, 2010)
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

Pavla (Nikolovová) Vozárová (PhD CERGE-EI, 2014)
Czech Technical University (ČVUT) in Prague, Czech Republic

Mira Nurmakhanova (PhD Iowa State University, 2008)
KIMEP, Almaty, Kazakhstan

Yessengali Oskenbayev (PhD ZEF Bonn, expected 2014)
Suleyman Demirel University, Almaty, Kazakhstan

Esmeralda Shehaj (PhD Shaffordshire University, 2013)
University of Tirana, Albania

Petar Stankov (PhD CERGE-EI, 2014)
University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria

Aleksandar Vasilev (PhD University of Glasgow, 2013)
American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria

Dmitriy Vorobyev (PhD CERGE-EI, 2013)
Graduate School of Economics and Management, Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia

2013 Awardees (2013-2016)

Ruslan Aliyev (PhD CERGE-EI, expected early 2015)
ADA University, 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


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