Adriana Trejtnarova, a young Czech university student from the north Bohemian town of Broumov, is starting her three-month internship at the Canadian Embassy in Prague today. The young student of Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague was selected in…
What are some of the basic advocacy practices that NGOs should follow when engaging in advocacy? Key elements for NGOs approaching an advocacy campaign are (1) to thoroughly research the issues, (2) to approach decisionmakers in a way that makes…
"The thing about change is that it can happen very quickly. You can wake up one day and the democracy as you knew it had died yesterday," says a Polish women´s right activist Marta Lempart. Marta is a women’s rights…
We are proud to present the activities of the Open Society Fund in numbers for the year 2015. Below you can see how many projects we have supported in the last year and what the total grants amounted to. The…
CEU graduate students and faculty from around the world come together in Budapest to engage in interdisciplinary education, pursue advanced scholarship, and address some of society’s most vexing problems. Choose from 50 degree programs and apply now to join our…
The Embassy of Canada, in cooperation with The Open Society Fund Prague, invites interested candidates among Czech university students and recent graduates to apply for an internship at the Embassy of Canada in Prague. The internship is aimed at young…
Representatives of nonprofit organizations and members of the informal Parents for Inclusion (Rodiče za inkluzi) alliance sent an open letter on Friday, 6 February to Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka about an amendment to the Schools Act that is currently…
We are pleased to invite you to an information meeting in Prague about Central European University (accredited in the USA and Hungary, based in Budapest). The representative of the Student Recruitment Office will be joined by Serge Sych, alumnus of…
Advocacy & Internet Summer School brought together a diverse group of activists and researchers from 24 countries to discuss the latest threats and opportunities of Internet freedom. The week-long intensive course hosted by Central European University in Budapest offered many…
Since its re-election in April 2014, the government of Viktor Orbán began a campaign compromising the credibility of Hungarian NGOs and tries to gain control over the funding provided to civic sector independently from Hungarian government by Norway, Iceland and…
