CEVRO Institute
| CEVRO Institut | |
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| Type | Private |
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| Established | 2005 |
| Chairman | Ivan Langer |
| President | |
| 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 |
| Website | www |
| Data as of 2016[update] | |
The CEVRO Institute (Czech: CEVRO Institut) is a private university located in Prague, Czech Republic. It offers a wide range of majors in social sciences on both BA and MA levels and several professional post-graduate programs. It is focused on education and research in the area of social sciences with practical use in public life.
The CEVRO Institute was established on September 15th, 2005 by the citizen association of CEVRO – Liberal-Conservative Academy, a nonpartisan think tank created in 1999 in order to provide political education, democracy assistance and capacity building for democratic leaders and parties from all around the world.
The opening of the university was presided over by Mirek Topolánek, then Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, who praised 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 and its 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.
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.
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.
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