Environmental and Energy Studies

Last week, newly established OSUN’s GeoHub, a joint initiative by Syslab's ISEPEI project, American University of Central Asia (AUCA), and Bard College successfully completed the in-person Summer University course on "Geospatial Technologies for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - Food Security" in CEU’s Budapest campus.

After two years of wait, CEU’s Summer University face-to-face course on "Geospatial Technologies for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - Food Security" is all set to kick off on July 25th, 2022 in Budapest! This year the course offers a dynamic set of exciting lectures which will wrap up on July 29th.  

Jessica Jewell, who completed an MS (2009) and PhD (2013) at the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy has been elected to the Young Academy of Sweden.

Central European University, Vienna successfully completed World Wide Teach-In on Climate solutions and Climate Justice on 31st March last month. The event was a part of Open Society University Network’s collaboration with Center for Environmental Policy, Bard College, USA for their Solve Climate 2030 project. 4 master’s students from the Environmental Sciences department of CEU participated in planning and organizing the event with advisor Dora Almassy.

The OSUN CORUSUS project is strengthening teaching, learning and research by cultivating cooperation to address the sustainability of rural livelihoods in South Africa, Kyrgyzstan, and Lebanon, whilst bolstering the sharing of knowledge and experience between faculty and students of partner institutions. It aims to facilitate student exchange to promote inter-disciplinary and cross-contextual co-learning including targeted internship funding for CEU’s MESPOM program.

We are proud to announce this year's CEU doctoral student award recipients in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy:

Summer University of CEU is organizing a workshop/training on the following disciplines:

Sustainable development | Information and communication technologies | Geographic information systems (GIS) | Remote sensing | Food security

Co-funded by the Open Society University Network (OSUN) and in cooperation with the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) as part of the “Bridging ICTs and Environment” workshop series run by the ISEPEI project.

Eszter Matyas our doctoral student gave a talk The burden of radioactive waste inherited to the upcoming generations at a December 2021 workshop entitled Nuclear Waste Management and Inter-generational Aspects, organized by Youth and Environment Europe in cooperation with the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung European Union.