CERGE-EI Career Integration Fellowships for Western-Educated Economists Returning to Central and Eastern Europe

Apply for a Career Integration Fellowship

CERGE-EI Career Integration Fellowships (CIFs) are available for Western-educated economists returning to Central and Eastern Europe and the countries of the former Soviet Union to take full-time academic posts. 

The deadline for submitting applications for fellowships beginning in the 2024-2025 academic is 15 April 2024. Decisions should be issued in mid- to late-May 2024. 

Full details can be found in this Downloadable Information Package. 

Email queries should be directed to teaching.fellows@cerge-ei-foundation.org

Throughout the post-communist world, societies desperately need better understanding of fundamental economic principles. CERGE-EI Teaching Fellows’ Career Integration Fellowships enable talented young people with Western PhDs to return to their home countries and assume full-time university positions. Back in their home country, these passionate teachers play a key role in creating support for both free minds and free markets. 

Career Integration Fellowships provide crucial salary supplements, modern pedagogical training, access to electronic literature and data, and a support network of like-minded scholars. The fellowship also provides the opportunity to organize research stays at CERGE-EI.

The fellowship carries an award of $8000 per year and is guaranteed to be provided for 3 years. If the program receives sufficient funding in the future, fellowships may be renewed. The fellowship is provided over and above the salary paid by the university where the fellow will teach.

Countries where Career Integration Fellows are currently teaching:

Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Lithuania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan
 

For more information please write to the teaching fellows administration team at teaching.fellows@cerge-ei.cz