Dates and Deadlines

General timeline for summer courses

The following timeline applies to most of the SUN programs, however, there might be slightly different timelines in the case of a few courses. 

• Application: The first application deadline is February 14. Further deadlines and the late application policy will be posted on the course websites. 
• Email notification about the decision: April - May.
• Confirmation and Onboarding on the Applicant Portal: within two weeks after receipt of the acceptance notification. 
• Access to the course-specific e-learning sites with readings and course outlines: end of April - end of May. 
• Tuition fee payment deadline: May 28 (for course-specific fee payment deadline see the course website).
• Visa: Visa applications should be lodged no more than six months and not less than 15 days before the intended visit starts.
• Participant arrivals, hotel check-in, and registration: one day before the course starts.
• Orientation session at CEU Budapest's downtown site: on the first day of the course.

Courses where application is already closed

• Civic Engagement: Student as Citizen
• Climate Nexus: Interlinking Energy, Agriculture, and Water
• Contestations of Citizenship in Times of Global Democratic Backsliding
• Democracy and Inequality: The Challenge of a Society of Equals
• Demographic Imaginaries: Soft Authoritarianism, Majoritarian Identity Politics and Demographic Anxieties
• Geospatial Technologies for Monitoring SDGs: Early Warnings for All
• Global Education Policy Implementation in Low-Resource Contexts
• Holocaust Testimonies and Their Afterlives
• Magic and Witchcraft: Belief and Persecution in Global Perspective
• Mobilizing the Feminist Imaginary: Arts-based Research Approaches and Creative Activism
• Professional Development in University Teaching and Learning
• The Ethics of Attention
• The Human Mind and the Open Society
• The Power of the Visual: Creative Documentary and Human Rights

Course-specific application deadlines