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The medal and the badge may exceptionally be awarded and conferred posthumously.

MEDAL „FOR MERITORIOUS SERVICE TO SGH WARSAW SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS”

The medal „For meritorious service to SGH Warsaw School of Economics” is awarded to persons or institutions who, acting for the benefit of SGH or in co-operation with SGH, have contributed to the creation or strengthening of the positive image of SGH.

The medal together with the diploma is presented by the Rector during important SGH ceremonies or other events organised by the University.

Committee awarding the medal

Committee, including its President and Deputy President, is appointed by the Senate on the proposal of the Rector. It is composed of 9 persons, including ex officio the President of the Chairperson of the Students’ Union of SGH and and the Chairperson of PhD Students’ Union of SGH. The Secretary shall be a person appointed by the Rector.

The right to apply for the award of the medal shall be vested in: Rector, Deans of Collegia, Chancellor and the Council of the Students’ Union of SGH and the Council of the PhD Students’ Union of SGH – by resolution. The application should be addressed to the Committee President through the Committee Secretary and must include: personal data or the seat and contact details of the institution, as well as a presentation of professional and social activities, merits and achievements for SGH, and in case of institutions, the course of cooperation and description of merits for SGH.

The Committee shall decide on the application for the award of the medal by an absolute majority of votes.

Laureates

2024

In 2024, the medal “For meritorious service to the SGH Warsaw School of Economics” was presented to: Aleksander Kwaśniewski – President of the Republic of Poland (1995-2005), Professor Danuta Huebner and Ambassador Jan Truszczyński.

The medals were presented at the Inauguration of the 2024/2025 academic year.

Presenting medals at the Inauguration of the 2024/2025 academic year

2023

In 2023, the medal “For meritorious service to the SGH Warsaw School of Economics” was presented to: Ewa Kłobukowska, Stefan Krebs, Grażyna Rabsztyn, Professor Stefan Rammert, Professor Daniel Schunk and Teresa Sukniewicz-Kleiber.

The medals were presented at the Inauguration of the 2023/2024 academic year. The following persons received medals from the chapter’s chairman, Professor Marek Rocki, and Rector Piotr Wachowiak: Stefan Krebs, Professor Stefan Rammert, Professor Daniel Schunk and Teresa Sukniewicz-Kleiber. The ceremony was led by Vice-Rector for Development Roman Sobiecki.

Teresa Sukniewicz-Kleiber odbiera dyplom

Presenting medals at the Inauguration of the 2023/2024 academic year

During the 25th anniversary of the SGH Partners Club, medals “For Services to the SGH Warsaw School of Economics” were presented to representatives of four companies and institutions that were among the 12 founding entities of the SGH Partners Club: Bank Pekao S.A., EY, Giełda Papierów Wartościowych w Warszawie S.A. (Warsaw Stock Exchange) and Procter&Gamble.

The companies EY, Bank Pekao, the Warsaw Stock Exchange and Procter&Gamble are founders of the SGH Partners Club and have remained its members for 25 years. Our partners are characterized by, among other things, readiness to cooperate, openness and substantive commitment to the continuous improvement of the level of educational offer, which is vital for building widespread awareness of the importance and significance of economic processes. The exchange of ideas, creative and rational use of experience and the ability to play a complex market game make our cooperation a driving force to create new quality of economic education and achieve the key objectives of our university strategy.
Presenting medals at the Inauguration of the 2023/2024 academic year.

Photo Pat Mic

2022

In 2022, the Medal for Services to the SGH Warsaw School of Economics was presented to Grażyna Żebrowska and Jerzy Koźmiński.

Grażyna Żebrowska i Jerzy Koźmiński trzymają medale i bukiet kwiatów. Obok laureatów stoją rektorzy

2020

Vice-Rector for Development Professor Roman Sobiecki, Rector Wachowiak and Rector Rocki presented Zygmunt Bedrychowski, Chairman of the Economic Forum Programme Council, with the Medal for Services to the SGH Warsaw School of Economics.

„One could say that Mr Bedrychowski is a one-man institution. The Institute for Eastern Studies which he founded in 1991 is the most important centre for dialogue between the East and the West. The Economic Forum organised by the Institute, first in Krynica and for two years now in Karpacz, is not without reason referred to as the „Polish Davos”. The annual event has for thirty years been bringing together several thousand most important representatives of the Central and Eastern European world of business, politics, and – for the past four years – of science as well,” Vice-Rector Sobiecki said in his speech. He underlined that thanks to the laureate’s efforts, SGH had for four years co-organised the Forum and became its Main Knowledge Partner this year.

prof. Roman Sobiecki, rektor Wachowiak, rektor Rocki i Zygmunt Berdychowski z medalem

In 2020, the Medal for Services to the SGH Warsaw School of Economics was also presented to dr Marek Szmelter.

Dr Szmelter is a long-standing employee of SGH who has been working for many years in the Collegium of World Economy, and had earlier been a research staff member at the Foreign Trade Faculty of the former Main School of Planning and Statistics (SGPiS) and the current SGH Warsaw School of Economics. He runs courses on international law which are well appreciated by the students. His undeniably substantial achievements in respect of the organisation of the SGH Warsaw School of Economics, the creation and implementation of the School’s legal system, his impeccable ethics and respect for the academic values and traditions, the achievements in research and teaching notwithstanding, make him an outstanding member of our School’s academic milieu.

2019

In 2019, the medal “For meritorious service to SGH Warsaw School of Economics” was awarded to Professor Janina Jóźwiak - posthumously.

On 9 May 2019, during the ceremonial Senate on the occasion of the SGH Feast Day, the medal „For meritorious service to SGH Warsaw School of Economics”, was awarded by the committee for the first time ever posthumously to prof. Janina Jóźwiak, Rector of SGH Warsaw School of Economics from 1993 to 1999. The medal was received by Professor Janina Jóźwiak’s sister. In the laudation given by prof. Hanna Godlewska-Majkowska, Vice-Rector for Cooperation with the Environment, she said:

„The fundamental achievement of prof. Janina Jóźwiak’s activity for SGH was her essential and significant contribution to the development of a radical structural and curricular reform of SGH as the president of the Reform Committee and the implementation of that reform as Rector in 1993-1999. This reform resulted in a substantial reconstruction of the organisational structures of the university, but above all it defined in a new form the strategy of comprehensive economic education in the university”.

„MERITORIOUS TO SGH WARSAW SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS” BADGE

The badge „Meritorious to SGH Warsaw School of Economics” is awarded to particularly meritorious employees and retired employees of SGH.

The badge is awarded by the Rector based on applications that may be submitted by: deans of collegia, the Chancellor, Students’ Union of SGH and PhD Students’ Union of SGH – by resolution. The Rector may also award the badge on his own initiative.

The application for the award of the badge should include: the name and surname of the employee or retired employee of SGH, and the justification for awarding the badge together with a presentation of professional, social activities and merits for SGH, as well as the length of service.

The badge together with a certificate of its awarding is presented by the Rector during important SGH ceremonies or other events organised by the University.

Laureates

2024

In 2024, the badge “Meritorious to SGH Warsaw School of Economics” was awarded to: