[{Image src='170402-ceuval.jpg' caption='' height='300' alt='170402-ceuval.jpg' class='image_right'}] !! # I stand with CEU! GLO Fellows and Academicians expressed their solidarity at CEU in Budapest September 7, 2017 Budapest, September 6, 2017. At the __Central European University (CEU)__, an outstanding institution of higher education under national political threat, the __Global Labor Organization (GLO)__, the __CEU School of Public Policy__ and the __Section “Economics, Business and Management Sciences” of the Academia Europea (AE)__, had jointly organized a discussion panel meeting on the relationship between science and policymaking. \\ \\ Evidence-free policy making is on the move. This is a particular challenge for the relationship between scientists and policymakers. A workshop with a high-ranked panel of scientists in Budapest engaged in policy advice and policy-making was debating this in the face of the ongoing discussion about the future of the __Central European University (CEU)__. The open event took place on September 6, 2017 on the premises of CEU hosted by the __CEU School of Public Policy__. The distinguished panel of the event consisted of prominent members of the __Academia Europaea (MAE)__ and the __Global Labor Organization (GLO)__. \\ \\ The issue was also debated during the Academia Europaea 29th Annual Conference 2017 in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, September 4-6, 2017. Academia Europaea (AE) is the Academy of Europe. !EVENT ACTORS: __Panel Chair:__ [Klaus F. Zimmermann|Member/Zimmermann_Klaus], UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University & MAE; President of the Global Labor Organization (GLO), Section Chair of the Academia Europaea for “Economics, Business and Management Sciences”; Former President of DIW Berlin & Founding Director of IZA. \\ \\ [Martin Kahanec|Member/Kahanec_Martin], Central European University (CEU), CELSI, MAE; Acting Head of the School of Public Policy; Fellow of the Global Labor Organization (GLO); Founding Scientific Director of CELSI. \\ \\ [Andreu Mas-Colell|Member/Mas-Colell_Andreu], University Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and Barcelona GSE, MAE & GLO; Recipient of the Erasmus Medal of the Academia Europaea 2017; former Minister for Universities and Research and former Minister of Economy and Knowledge of the Government of Catalonia. \\ \\ [Sergiu Hart|Member/Hart_Sergiu], The Hebrew University of Jerusalem & MAE; Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Rationality. \\ \\ [Frederick van der Ploeg|Member/van_der_Ploeg_Frederick], Oxford University, MAE & GLO ; Former State Secretary of Education, Culture and Science, the Netherlands, former Member of the Dutch Parliament. \\ \\ [Event website|https://glabor.org/wp/stand-ceu-glo-fellows-academicians-expressed-solidarity-ceu-budapest] \\ \\ %%columns;-300;400; [{Image src='20170906_093926-e1504698590435_small.jpg' caption='HOST AND ACTING HEAD: Kahanec' height='400' alt='20170906_093926-e1504698590435_small.jpg'}] ---- [{Image src='20170906_094031-e1504698697779_small.jpg' caption='PANEL CHAIR: Zimmermann (left: van der Ploeg)' height='400' alt='20170906_094031-e1504698697779_small.jpg'}] %% \\ \\ [{Image src='20170906_094745_small.jpg' caption='THE DEBATE: van der Ploeg; Mas-Colell; Zimmermann; Hart & Kahanec' height='300' alt='20170906_094745_small.jpg' align='center'}] \\ \\ [{Image src='20170906_114934-768x432.jpg' caption='Kahanec (left) & Zimmermann in front of CEU' height='300' alt='20170906_114934-768x432.jpg' align='center'}] \\ \\