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Submit Course Proposals for CEU Summer University 2025
The Summer University (SUN) of the Central European University (CEU) announces a call for course proposals for its summer school program held in Budapest, July 1 – July 31, 2025.We encourage course teams to create new partnerships between CEU and their academic and professional institutions, networks, foundations, and interested sponsors supporting their fields by offering external funding.
The Summer University (SUN) of CEU is the extension of the university’s mission of promoting research, teaching, and social engagement by hosting high-level, research-oriented, interdisciplinary, and innovative academic courses in the social sciences and the humanities as well as workshops on policy issues and professional development. The short, intensive courses, developed and taught collaboratively by teams of distinguished international scholars (including faculty of CEU), experts and practitioners, are aimed at global audiences including graduate students, junior or post-doctoral researchers, junior faculty, and professionals. The teaching teams' joint expertise is shared with participants in a comparative framework during the summer courses.
SUN courses cater to the various needs of academic and professional development in the social sciences and humanities across a wide spectrum of disciplines.
Past SUN courses addressed topical issues: inequalities, conflict resolution, interethnic relations, migration, nationalism and transnationalism, globalization, human rights, climate change and sustainability, urban development, Romani identities, religion and politics, use of geospatial technologies for environmental decision and policymaking, among others. A segment of courses aimed to develop innovative curricula and pedagogical approaches in traditional disciplines, including medieval studies, philosophy, music, and arts. The courses combine the focus on general theoretical frameworks and approaches to research and application embedded in the context of the countries/regions the course participants come from.
Courses typically last one or two (consecutive) weeks. Based on the CEU credit hour system, each course has a teaching load of 24 hours (1,200 minutes) per week of classroom work, complemented by independent reading and extracurricular activities. The program offers the following types of courses:
(1) research-focused/intensive collaborations co-led by CEU and non-CEU faculty, with the involvement of further invited faculty and experts. Courses are collaboratively developed and delivered in partnerships among academics and professionals from institutions in the Global South and the Global North.
(2) policy, professional, and community-oriented programs/courses as well as skills-oriented training courses
Please contact SUN Director Kornelia Vargha for advice on applications and course formats.
The deadline for draft course proposals is Friday, May 3
Cross Reference: Proposal,Opportunities,Summer Course, OSUN
Deadline Expired on May 3, 2024