Central European University Budapest

The Central European University (CEU) is an internationally recognized, non-state institution of post-graduate education in social sciences and humanities accredited in the United States and Hungary. The Center for Policy Studies (CPS) is an academic unit within CEU dedicated to promoting inter-disciplinary and comparative research, analyzing public policy in the field of equality on different inequality grounds including ethnicity, gender, and disability, policies for social inclusion and integration of minorities, and intersecting inequalities (http://cps.ceu.edu). CEU CPS has acted as Consortium Coordinator in both the 6th and 7th Framework Programs.  Within FP 7, the Center led the research project Ethnic Differences in Education and Diverging Prospects for Urban Youth in an Enlarged Europe (EDUMIGROM, www.edumigrom.eu, 2008-2011) project. This three-year research project was investigating the impact of educational policies on the future life prospects of Roma and second-generation migrant youth in  9 EU countries. The Center is responsible for research in Hungary for the Tolerance, Pluralism and Social Cohesion: Responding to the Challenges of the 21st Century in Europe (ACCEPT PLURALISM) project. Also within FP7, the Center is a consortium partner in Employment 2025: How will multiple transitions affect the European labour market (NEUJOBS), where it coordinates a work package on Roma in the labor market.

For more see: http://cps.ceu.edu and www.edumigrom.eu