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Central Europe, Eastern Europe or the Balkans? What the regional names meanCentral Europe, Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, South-East Europe, the Balkans, the Western Balkans: where each name comes from, which countries it usually covers, and how to use them in research, applications and literature searches.PhD or postdoc in Europe: choosing your university city and finding a place to liveChoosing where to do a PhD or postdoc in Europe means choosing a city as well as a supervisor. Funding rules that adjust for the cost of living, EU residence rights for researchers, rent trends from Tallinn to Budapest, and how to find housing before you arrive.What is the Central European Initiative (CEI)?The Central European Initiative began in Budapest in November 1989 as the Quadragonale and became one of Europe's oldest regional cooperation forums, with its secretariat in Trieste.Studying Eastern Europe in Italy: MIREES then and nowHow the MIREES master's at the University of Bologna's Forlì campus started as a joint degree with Eastern European partners and continues today as East European and Eurasian Studies.