Miklós Haraszti's keynote speech at the European Press Prize Award ceremony at Blinken OSA on March 14 2018.  Miklos Haraszti is a journalist, human rights promoter, a visiting professor at Central European University,  Director of Research on Human Rights at the Center for European Neighborhood Studies, and Reseach Fellow  at the Center for Media, Data and Society. As a member of Hungary's parliament in the 1990s, he authored the country's first laws on press freedom. From 2004 to 2010, he directed the media freedom watchdog institution of the 56-nation Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). Recently, he headed the OSCE's observation missions for elections in the U.S. and in Kazakhstan. He has taught at several universities, including Bard College, Northwestern University, and the New School. In the past two years, he gave courses on global press freedom issues at Columbia University.

The early years of Central European University are in the focus of a Czech language book by Tereza Pospíšilová, now available in OSA's Library (Středoevropská univerzita v Praze a česká sociologie. Studie transnacionální filantropie. Sociologické nakladatelství, Praha, 2017).

The Hoover Institution’s Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Historical Recording Description Project (HRDP) is an initiative to produce English-language content summaries for digitized radio broadcasts from RFE/RL collections. The radio broadcasts are over 33 languages and dialects.

In 2017 the Voices of the 20th Century Archive and Research Group celebrates its 10th anniversary. The group operates within the Institute of Sociology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The project was started with the technical, institutional and academic support of the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives. The project group collects and digitizes copies of interviews and other research documents offered by acknowledged Hungarian social scientists.