Center for Policy Studies
International Policy Fellowships
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MENTOR CRITIQUE FORM

Your thoughtful and honest appraisal will be most helpful. We appreciate your input and will try to implement as many of your ideas as possible. Continue comments on the back if necessary.

Each Fellow works with one mentor who is Soros foundations network-affiliated (usually Open Society Institute and Central European University) and one or two ‘external’ mentor(s) who are experts in the field working outside the Soros foundations network. Mentors should: 1) Work with Fellows to devise a brief policy paper in their field(s) of expertise based on a lengthy research paper written over the course of the fellowship year, 2) Maintain contact with Fellows at least once every six weeks or so by telephone, fax or e-mail to discuss the development of projects, 3) If feasible, meet with Fellows at least once during the fellowship year to discuss the project, 4) Facilitate Fellows’ contact with other relevant experts and participation in appropriate meetings (IPF has discretionary funds to support Fellow attendance at relevant events), 5) Complete brief mid-term and final critique forms supplied by IPF to provide the program with feedback regarding the Fellow’s progress.

Your name, position 
Laszlo Bruszt, Associate Professor, Dept. of Political Sciences, CEU  

Name of Fellow you have assisted      Ivan Tchalakov

1. What, in your opinion, have you and your Fellow/program/project gained from your cooperation thus far? 

Ivan Tchalakov is after a ‘big fish’ with a research methodology and theoretical preparedness that match his ambitions. I have learned from our conversations and, as far as I can see from his research report and paper, he could also somewhat upgrade both his approach and his method.

2. Do certain areas of this Fellow’s work need improvement? Which areas?

He will definitely need to get closer to a type of analysis that will allow him to make policy recommendations but I think that can only be done once he finishes the research part of his project. Also, he might make a try to write my name correctly.

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3. In your opinion, does your Fellow’s project make a significant contribution to the field?
	
YES, the scholarly part definitely
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4. Would the project be important to other countries in the CEE/fSU region?
	
YES, it will give useful innovative tools to the analysis of economic change
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5. Could the proposed policy research make an impact on the policy environment in specific countries or regions? (Policy makers, experts and policy research community)
	
YES

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6. Is the timetable for the project realistic?

YES
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7. Could the project benefit a large number of people?
	
YES partly indirectly through the elaboration of an innovative research method and approach and directly through a more realistic policy proposals that could come out of his research
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8. Does the Fellow show evidence that he/she can think strategically about the relevant project and/or field?
	
YES

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9. If the Fellow were to re-apply for continued OSI funding for follow-up work associated with the project, would you support continued funding?

YES

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10. Are there other appropriate funders that may support the project?

YES, 
In the  FP6 programs of EU I am sure his project could find a place_____________________________________________________________________

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Additional Comments (Please comment on your Fellow’s work and all aspects of the IPF program using the back of this sheet):