International Policy Fellowships

  Fellows

▪ Maria Golubeva
▪ Sophia Howlett
▪ Gaso Knezevic
▪ Cristina Nicolescu

  Group Advisor

▪ Vadim Volkov

  Soros Network Initiatives

▪ Education Support Initiative
▪ International Higher Education
▪ Scholarship Programs

  Responsible Elites

▪ European association
▪ Europe 2020
▪ Universities as Sites of Citizenship and Civic Responsibility

  Annotated Papers

▪ Reforms, Management, Responsibility: On Education in CEECs
▪ 15 years on: Educational Transitions in CEE
▪ Mapping minds, changing maps: role of universities
▪ Financing studies
▪ Tempus Program
▪ Lisbon agenda in schools and universities

Developing Socially Responsible elites and the Challenges for Higher Education

The experience of many countries indicates that democratic development and larger modernization depends to a significant degree on the level of elite preparedness: their know-how, capacity to present coherent ideas for necessary changes and ability to convince citizens of their ideas.

Fellow projects in 2005:

  • Maria Golubeva (Latvia):
    New Practices, Old Discourses? Change and Continuity in Humanities and Social Sciences in Latvia during the Democratic Transition
  • Sophia Howlett (Hungary):
    The Bologna Process in the former Soviet Union
  • Gaso Knezevic (Serbia and Montenegro):
    University Model Law and Policy Study
  • Cristina Nicolescu (Romania):
    Corporate Social Responsibility in the Romanian Higher Education
    •   Fellow Activities and Publications

    ▪ In April 2006, Gašo Kneževic will be visiting Corvinus University Budapest in connection with his IPF fellowship research.

    ▪ March 2006 sees Cristina Nicolescu begins a three month fellowship at Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC.

    ▪ June 2005: Pro Vobis, the National Volunteer Centre that Cristina Nicolescu is the Executive Director of, launched its new website provobis.ro

    ▪ Aug 2005: The Serbian Parliament accepted The Higher Education Act, which draws on Bologna Declaration to a considerable extent. Gaso Knezevic was a key figure in the drafting and lobbying of this Act.
     
      2005 Working Groups

    ▪ 2005 Working Group Summary
    ▪ Wider Europe
    ▪ Open Muslim Societies
    ▪ Open Society Threats
    ▪ Combating Organized Crime
    ▪ Transparency and Accountability
    ▪ Higher Education Reform
    ▪ Public Health and Roma
    ▪ Policymaking in Transition
     
      2006 Working Groups

    ▪ 2006 Working Group Summary
    ▪ Wider Europe
    ▪ Open Muslim Societies
    ▪ Open Society Threats
    ▪ Resource Curse
    ▪ Roma Exclusion
    ▪ Open Information Policy


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