Causes: Economic Development, Economics, Education, Graduate & Professional Schools, International, International Economic Development, Microfinance

Mission: To promote economics education and research in the post-communist countries of central and eastern europe including the former soviet union.

Programs: Support for the cerge-ei doctoral program in economics for promising students from the former soviet bloc and other developing nations that is totally tuition free, building a base of knowledge and expertise in modern market economics in a region where it was previously unknown.

the undergraduate program in central european studies is an american junior-year study-abroad program designed to expand u. S. Students education in the study of central europe and to further expand knowledge of the cerge-ei program through american academia.

the cerge-ei teaching fellowships support graduate students and post-doctoral teachers in the effort to expand the teaching of modern market economics to undergraduates in a region where such education is in severe short supply.