On September 1-2, the first CIVICA Research Conference took place at the Central European University’s campus in Budapest. The conference featured a wide range of topical themes including inequalities in digital public spaces, data analysis for social good, how to achieve sustainable development goals and migration and integration in Europe to mention but a few.

CIVICA and Google joined forces to help first-generation college students to gain professional experience at the intersection of government affairs and digital public policy. Google employees, CIVICA members and policy agency partners from across Europe celebrated the achievements of the first cohort of participants during the closing event of the pilot programme last week.

Salam Zandi now takes on further responsibility for CIVICA at SSE, leading the team with Anna Sandell and Professor Laurence Romani. The trio is now taking CIVICA to the next level at SSE.

CIVICA – The European University of Social Sciences is one of the sixteen European university alliances to receive continued support from the 2022-2027 Erasmus+ programme, as the European Commission announced today.

One of the core initiatives undertaken by CEU communities in support of Ukrainian students during these difficult times is the Invisible University for Ukraine (IUfU).

The 2022 CIVICA Summer School at Villa Vigoni gathered early career researchers across the social sciences and humanities for an interdisciplinary reflection on how crises and their aftermaths shape our understanding of the European Union.