The Civic Education Project (CEP) is a not-for-profit international education organization dedicated to assisting universities in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
CEP works in the following CEE and CIS countries: Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
CEP cooperates with social science, law and humanities faculties through its Visiting Lecturer and Eastern Scholar Programs. For the Visiting Lecturer Program, CEP selects Western scholars (PhDs and advanced post-graduate students) to work at host institutions in the region for a full academic year. In the Eastern Scholar Program, CEP assists Western-trained East European scholars by providing them with financial and teaching resources during their reentry into the educational system in their home country.
In addition to teaching, CEP Visiting Lecturers and Eastern Scholars cooperate with their host universities’ efforts to improve social science education. They do this through projects which include assisting in the design of new curricula, developing local language teaching materials, securing book donations, seeking research funds, organizing a variety of student and faculty events, and identifying opportunities for talented faculty and students to receive training outside their home countries.
