Cooperation with Universities and other domestic Institutions

CERGE-EI has strong administrative and academic ties both to Charles University and to the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Because of CERGE-EI’s organizational structure, cooperation with other university faculties and scientific institutes in the Czech Republic occurs on many levels. CERGE-EI faculty members teach courses in the Social Sciences and Mathematics faculties of Charles University, and several research staff have cooperated on projects with organizations such as the Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. There have also been a number of our advanced students who have taught undergraduate and masters-level courses at the Prague Economics University. Through various inter-governmental exchanges, CERGE-EI regularly hosts official academic visitors from universities and national academies of science from all over the world.

Cooperation with Non-Academic Organizations

CERGE-EI cooperates with various ministries and agencies of the Czech Republic in the implementation and utilization of the research results of our institute, above all with the ministries dealing with economic-related issues (the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry for Regional Development, the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs) but also with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of the Environment (including membership in its advisory board for economics), and other governmental agencies and institutes. In the area of political economy research, CERGE-EI cooperates with the Institute of International Affairs.

International Cooperation

CERGE-EI maintains a deep level of cooperation with a large number of foreign academic institutions and universities, including the William Davidson Institute of the University of Michigan Business School, the Organizational Dynamics Program in the Graduate Division of the School of Arts and Sciences of the University of Pennsylvania, the Economics Department of University College London, ECARE of the Free University of Brussels, Hunter College – CUNY and University of Paris IX – Dauphine. CERGE-EI faculty have taught courses organized by the Joint Vienna Institute, many of which have actually been held in the CERGE-EI building. Our researchers also carry out projects funded by the European Union’s PHARE ACE program with researchers from these and other partner universities and economic institutions. CERGE-EI has been fortunate enough to have been a coordinating institute of three EU TEMPUS network grants since its inception, which has allowed for intensive cooperation (i.e. students, faculty members and administrators) between CERGE-EI and universities from eight EU member states.

Throughout its history, CERGE-EI has worked closely with The World Bank on a number of projects, including the preparation of country reports and various research projects. More recently, CERGE-EI was named as the Central and Eastern European network hub for the World Bank’s Global Development. The Global Development Network is a worldwide network of policy and research institutes which aims to support the generation, sharing and application to development policy research. For more information on CERGE-EI’s GDN activities, please see the dedicated GDN page on our website.

Regional Think Tanks Partnership Program

The objective of the program is to enhance and strengthen capacity of Russian and East/Central European economic think tanks through professional collaboration, joint policy studies, and outreach activities. Funding for the program is provided by USAID as a part of the Agency's support to post-communist economic transition, development of civil society, and capacity building in Russia and Eastern Europe. In the framework of this program CERGE-EI cooperates with the William Davidson Institute (WDI) at the University of Michigan Business School and the School (Faculty) of Economics at Ural State University (USU) in Ekaterinburg, Russia. More details can be found in the following document.

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