The School of Public Policy at Central European University is happy to announce new partnerships for our flagship Passion Project program.
The MPA 2013-15 students will work in groups on policy projects in partnership with Freedom Now, Global Witness, the Institute for Integrated Transitions, the Revenue Watch Institute, Transparency International, BRAC, the UK Department for International Development and the Center for Conflict Negotiation and Recovery.
Wolfgang Reinicke, the Founding Dean of SPP explains: "We are very pleased with the proposals SPP received for our first round of Passion Projects. The assignments are both thematically and geographically diverse. By way of example, one of the SPP teams will carry out research on education policy in Bangladesh and Uganda, another will be engaged in human rights advocacy in the EU, while yet another group will develop recommendations for aid donor community to improve transparency and accountability in the management of oil, gas, and mining."
The Passion Project is a student-designed, policy-oriented capstone project. Over the course of the two-year program, each student team will identify a concrete policy challenge for a different client and develop a high-quality, policy-relevant product outlining a recommended response. The product aims to help improve the client's performance and meet its policy objectives.
Closely aligned with the mission of the School, the Passion Project is the culmination of the effort to bridge classroom and skills oriented learning in a real world context, develop innovative and entrepreneurial engagement for the public good and have a real, lasting policy impact.
Read more about each Passion Project and our partner organizations for 2013-15 here.