CEVRO Institute
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Vishwakarma | |
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| Type | Private |
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| Established | 2005 |
| Chairman | Ivan Langer |
| President | Josef Šíma |
| Vice-president | cz:Tomáš Pojar |
| Location |
Prague, Czech Republic 50°4′51.66″N 14°25′20.05″E / 50.0810167°N 14.4222361°ECoordinates: 50°4′51.66″N 14°25′20.05″E / 50.0810167°N 14.4222361°E |
| Campus | Urban |
| Affiliations |
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| Website |
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The CEVRO Institute (Czech: CEVRO Institut) is a private university located in Prague, Czech Republic. It offers BA and MA degrees in a wide range of social sciences and several professional post-graduate programs. The CEVRO Institute focuses on education and research in social sciences that has practical uses in public life.[1]
History
The CEVRO Institute was established on September 15, 2005, by CEVRO – Liberal-Conservative Academy, a nonpartisan think tank created in 1999 to provide political education, democracy assistance and capacity building for democratic leaders and parties from around the world. CEVRO Institute is a small private college located in the center of the city of historical Prague.
The Institute’s main goal is to provide quality education in the area of social sciences. The college faculty includes professors, senior lecturers and specialists in the areas of law, economics, political science, and international relations.
Mirek Topolánek, then Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, presided over the opening of the university, praising CEVRO's founding as a testament to the free enterprise system.
Your university – and I want to sincerely congratulate you on successful accomplishment of your project – is evidence that capitalism is not equal to egoism. This false equation had been hammered into our heads for many years. And some people would like to hammer it into our heads again. And you stuck up for yourselves. You stuck up for yourselves, because you know that capitalism equals to freedom. Freedom of possession, as well as freedom of research. Freedom of working and freedom of using fruits of one's work, whether they are fruits of material or spiritual character. .
As of 2016, the current president is economist Josef Šíma, and the board chairman is Ivan Langer. Tomáš Pojar, the vice president for International Relations of the CEVRO Institute, is the former Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Israel.
In April 2016, the CEVRO Institute made news by announcing that it would be one of the first universities in the world to accept Bitcoin for tuition payments.[3]
Universities around the world teach students not to be afraid, to go out and innovate, but the schools themselves are often firmly conservative, live from subsidies, and lose contact with the progress. Today most of the universities don’t even know that there is such a technology. We are always more than happy to push the limits and offer our students what they can’t find elsewhere.
Programs
In the fall of 2016, the school launched a unique PPE (philosophy, politics and economics) program taught in English with international faculty from both Europe and the United States. Specialist courses include Studies of Transition, Austrian Economics, and International Politics. The first applications were accepted on February 20, 2016.[5]
Facility
The central facility of CEVRO Institute is in a historic building in downtown Prague.[6]
Journal
Since its founding in 2005, the CEVRO Institute has published New Perspectives on Political Economy, a peer-reviewed, semi-annual, bilingual, interdisciplinary journal. Its main objective is to enhance the understanding of private property, market, and individual liberty-based perspectives in the respected sciences, mostly from the Austrian School.
Guest speakers
The CEVRO Institute has hosted many speakers, including economist Jesús Huerta de Soto, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Steven Pifer, economist Peter Boettke, Saxo Bank CEO Lars S. Christensen, American jurist Guido Calabresi, law professor Richard Epstein, noted anarchist David D. Friedman, economist and Cato Institute scholar Daniel J. Mitchell, economist Edward Stringham, environmentalist Terry L. Anderson, and economist and historian Hans-Hermann Hoppe.[7]
Notable faculty and alumni
Faculty
- Richard Vedder, director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, Emeritus professor of economics at Ohio University, and adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute[8]
- Michael Munger, professor of economics at Duke University and adjunct scholar at Cato Institute
- Benjamin Powell, director of the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University and senior fellow at the Independent Institute
- Peter Boettke, professor of Economics and Philosophy at George Mason University; Director of the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center
- Cyril Svoboda, former Czech deputy prime minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and head of the Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party
- Boudewijn Bouckaert, professor of law, former Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Ghent
- Alexandr Vondra, former Czech minister, former Ambassador to the United States, former adviser to President Václav Havel
Alumni
- Pavel Bělobrádek, current deputy prime minister of Science and Research in the cabinet of the Czech Republic
- Vít Jedlička, Czech politician, president self-declared libertarian micronation Liberland
References
- ↑ "CEVRO Feedback".
- ↑ "Website of the Government of the Czech Republic".
- ↑ "Czech Institute Enables Bitcoin as Payment for Tuition Fees".
- ↑ "Prague CEVRO University Endorses Bitcoin Payments for Master's Programs".
- ↑ "PPE Program Application".
- ↑ "CEVRO Institute About Us".
- ↑ "Foreign Speakers".
- ↑ "Richard Vedder".