DPP Archive

Height Does Matter: Why Some Countries Underperform in Football

June 24, 2014
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Brazil's World Cup stadiums are buzzing with excitement and fans all over the globe are glued to the TV for heart-stopping matches to see who will take home the 2014 trophy. CEU Associate Professor of Public Policy Achim Kemmerling took a look at how player height affects a team's success. For his blog, he produced charts in which he linked average national body height with the performance of the respective national teams.

Outstanding Academic Achievement Awards 2013-2014

June 23, 2014

The Outstanding Academic Achievement Award is given to students from each Master's program who have achieved the highest GPA (grade point average) at the end of the program.

This academic year DPP's Outstanding Academic Achievement Awards have been extended to Amy Schoeber in the one-year MA program and James Wilhelm in Mundus MAPP.

 

Amy and James, congratulations and all the best with your future endevours! 

 

Succesful doctoral defense of Andrey Demidov

June 12, 2014
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The Department of Public Policy is happy to announce the successful defense of the PhD dissertation by 

Andrey Demidov

on

The Partnership Principle for Structural Funds in the New Member States. Understanding Contestation over the EU Requirements.

Abstract:

Professor Kahanec (Public Policy) talks at IZA/RAND Workshop "Mapping Diasporas in the European Union and the US" in Brussels

June 9, 2014
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Martin Kahanec, Associate Professor at the Department of Public Policy, presented as an invited panelist at IZA/RAND Workshop: Mapping Diasporas in the European Union and the United States jointly organized by IZA, RAND and the European Commission in Brussels on June 3, 2014. Kahanec discussed the importance of mobility in the EU facing multiple demographic and economic deficits. He focused on East-West mobility, highlighting the eocnomic potentials of skilled migration from Eastern Partnership countries.

Andreas Goldthau and Nick Sitter publish article on EU external energy governance in Journal of European Public Policy

June 5, 2014

DPP's Andreas Goldthau and Nick Sitter published a piece titled 'A liberal actor in a realist world? The Commission and the external dimension of the single market for energy' in the Journal of European Public Policy, a top journal in the field of public policy.