Giving Opportunities
The functions and purposes of CERGE-EI are as diverse as the need for sponsors. Benefactors can be involved in many different giving and naming opportunities.
Student Support
Student Fellowships
Annual Cost per Student (120 per year) $15,000 or $250,000 endowment.
Sponsors can designate that scholarship recipients be from specific countries or regions or specialize in particular fields of economics.
Student Mobility
Cost per Student (12 per year) $7,000 or $125,000 endowment.
To enable outstanding advanced students to spend a semester or a year in Western Europe or North America as a part of their dissertation research.
Post-Doctoral Fellowships
Annual Cost per Fellowship (2 per year) $12,000, three-year commitment requested or $225,000 endowment.
For senior visitors to assist in thesis supervision and research coordination. Donors can fund a visiting professorship with their names attached and may specify a region, country of origin, or a particular specialization.
"The work is incredibly important. Investing in the education of these remarkable young men and women and what they will contribute to their countries is both socially responsible and smart business."
Alan J. Brown, Group Chief Investment Officer, Schroder Investment Management Limited
Professorships
Economics Professorships
Annual Cost per Professorship (20 available per year) $30,000/$500,000 endowment.
For supplemental compensation and research support to promising young faculty so as not to lose them to more lucrative jobs in the West or the private sector. Faculty may be supported in specific fields of economics according to the donor's wishes.
Academic Skills Center Professorships
Annual Cost per Professorship (5 available per year) $15,000/$250,000 endowment.
For trained and qualified teachers to provide support and assistance on academic writing and other academic skills for the duration of a student’s time at CERGE-EI, and to ensure that scholarship at CERGE-EI is presented effectively to the world.
Visiting Faculty
Annual Cost per Professorship (5 available per year) $30,000/yr or $500,000 endowment.
For senior visitors to assist in thesis supervision and research coordination. Donors can fund a visiting professorship with their names attached and may specify a region, country of origin, or a particular specialization.
Faculty Development Fund
$30,000 per year, or $500,000 endowment.
To enable faculty members to attend conferences and seminars throughout the world to excel in their fields as well as enhance and showcase their skills. The Faculty Development Fund will provide faculty the opportunities to grow intellectually and practically by representing CERGE-EI at the national and international level.
"CERGE-EI has assembled a group of vigorous scholars who offer high quality training and access to frontier research in economics in Central Europe. The seminars are active; the scholars are productive and the students trained there are doing high quality research."
James J. Heckman, Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College, University of Chicago; 2000 Nobel Prize in Economics.
Intellectual Life
Publications
Annual Cost $20,000 or $400,000 endowment.
To distribute the results of CERGE-EI research to the international community. This program funds the working and discussion paper series, etc.
Seminar Series
Annual Cost per Series (3 per year) $10,000 or $200,000 endowment.
To bring leading scholars to CERGE-EI to share ideas with local scholars. Potential donors may wish to fund seminars in particular areas of economics.
Virtual CERGE-EI
Annual Cost (per year) $30,000 per year or $500,000 endowment.
To develop and maintain an on-site audio-visual center that will enable teleconferencing, videotaping, and real-time video transmission of seminars, forums, panel discussion, dissertation defenses and classes, opening CERGE-EI events to a world audience through the Internet.
Facilities & Infrastructure
Library
Journal Collections in a Specific Area (10 per year) $8,000 or $150,000 endowment; Book Collections in a Specific Area (10 per year) $5,000 or $100,000 endowment; Individual volume with nameplate $100.
To maintain and deepen the largest and most current collection of economic literature in Central and Eastern Europe, which is housed in one of the few open-stack libraries in the region. Donors may sponsor general collecting or a particular field.
Computer Facilities
$40,000 per year or $800,000 endowment.
To replace and upgrade on a 5-year cycle over 100 computers used by students and faculty. Costs include network connections and software.
Named Lecture Hall
$100,000 - $500,000 endowment.
Building Name
$20,000,000 endowment.
