Central European Academy

The Central European Academy (CEA) was established on 1 January 2022 with its seat in Budapest as a separate legal entity of the University of Miskolc, which has a long tradition originating from Selmecbánya (now Banská Štiavnica). The CEA provides an institutional framework for strengthening international scientific cooperation between the countries of the Central European region by attracting renowned senior scholars and talented junior researchers in line with the demands of today's challenges. In the performance of its public tasks as defined by the Hungarian state, the CEA has established an interdisciplinary network of experts researching the legal systems of Central Europe and beyond, called the Central European Professors' Network. By publishing its results in open access, organising lectures and international conferences, and establishing LLM and PhD scholarships, it aims to make the Central European legal tradition and jurisprudential achievements, which are an integral part of European values, as widely known as possible in Europe and beyond. The CEA primarily practices its academic engagement through its own international publishing house, known as the Central European Academic Publishing. To achieve these goals, the Central European Academy also cooperates with experts and institutions from other Western European countries, as well as EU candidate countries, and its research also covers other areas of law-related disciplines. Thanks to its dynamic and ambitious management, the CEA constantly expands its international network of contacts, with a particular focus on helping experts and researchers from the EU candidate countries to make the Central European values more visible and to effectively preserve their constitutional identity throughout the integration process.