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Summer School on Education: The Future of School

Summer School on Education: The Future of School

Innovation of education has become the key issue for many changing societies. It is painful to bring revolutionary decisions into education, because it challenges the traditional methods of teaching and learning, which have been for a long time taken for granted. Nevertheless, the revolutionary

Public Finance in Hungary

Public Finance in Hungary

The course provides an analysis of the changes in the Hungarian public finances from the 1988 tax reform and explains the roots of contemporary difficulties emerged and of different policies used by central and local governments in public finance. Topics will be examined from an applied perspective

Migration Studies

Migration Studies

The course will introduce students into various theories including, cumulative causation, world system theory, social capital, macro and micro push and pull, network theory. It will provide basic data on historical developments and links to major macro social changes. It will discuss major policy

International Enterprises

International Enterprises

The course will address various aspects of international enterprises, with special reference to the developments in their working environment. The course will go through changes in the world economy, elements of globalization, factors acting behind it, and theories explaining them. It will list

Hungarian Economic Transition

Hungarian Economic Transition

The students will be introduced into the socio-economic transformation of central and eastern Europe, and in particular of Hungary. The aim of the course is to familiarize the participant with the complexities of a regime change, and in addition with the modalities of the Hungarian socio-economic

Dutch Arts & Digital Technology

Dutch Arts & Digital Technology

During this three-week intensive course you will be immersed in a creative pressure cooker. A collaboration between visual artists and IT specialists leads to interactive installations in a public setting/ environment during an exhibition. Period 27-05-2013 - 14-06-2013 (3 weeks) Target group

Doing Elite Research

Doing Elite Research

Elites are key actors of social events. The course highlights how social sciences can study them. It introduces students into the theoretical foundations and empirical sources of elite research. Methodological issues as well as new international comparative findings of elite studies will be

Corporate Governance

Corporate Governance

The course is concerned with the role of corporation and its governance in national and the global economy, including Central and Easter Europe. The course first outlines the theoretical and historical background of corporate governance then discusses both the advantages and the disadvantages of