Flora Laszlo

Project leader and sociologist, Flora Laszlo, participated in the development and management of RadioC, Roma Radio station in Budapest, Hungary in the early 2000s, which was followed by her founding and running Uccu Roma Informal Educational Foundation. The experiences she gained during these community- and minority-empowerment projects will be beneficial when establishing and developing the prison program in Austria. Laszlo joined CEU in 2015 as Civic Engagement Officer with the goal of setting up the Civic Engagement Office and strengthening social responsibility and civic engagement at the university. In her current role, as Director of the Community Engagement Office, she is responsible for civic engagement, arts and culture, human rights, student leadership development and public outreach activities. ​Laszlo teaches civic engagement at the CEU Summer University. The Community Engagement Office at Central European University (CEU) is aiming to develop a new higher education project in Vienna – UNIVERSITY-PRISON PARTNERSHIPS. The mission of our university is to contribute to an open society, through research and teaching, but also through civic engagement projects. In line with this mission, we have formed a working group at the university including faculty, staff and students, interested in prison education, and we are working on a project to bring academic workshops and lectures to incarcerated people in Viennese/Austrian facilities.