The role of research in developing policies towards reducing inequalities and building resilience in Europe

Programme

9:00 – 9:30
Opening session

• Prof. Andrzej Szeptycki – Undersecratary of State, Ministry of Science and Higher Education
• Prof. Dr Patrizia Nanz – President of the EUI
• Prof. Piotr Wachowiak – Rector of the SGH Warsaw School of Economics
• Prof. Łukasz Gruszczyński – Kozminski University

9:30 – 10.00
Keynote: The role of universities in the European Union

• Prof. Dr Patrizia Nanz

10:00 – 11:30
Session 1: Cohesion Policy of the European Union and its impact on the attractiveness of the CEE regions 

Session coordinator: Adam A. Ambroziak (SGH Warsaw School of Economics)

• Dr hab. Ida Musiałkowska, prof. UEP – Cohesion Policy – the state-of-the-art and future challenges
• Dr hab. Małgorzata Dziembała, prof. UEKat – Implementation and Challenges for the Future Based on the Example of the Silesian Voivodship 
• Dr Aleksandra Borowicz, UG – Reflections on the Evolving Cohesion Policy: How CAP Can Enhance the Attractiveness of CEE Countries
• Prof. dr hab. E. Kawecka-Wyrzykowska – Budgetary aspects of the future EU cohesion policy
• Dr hab. Adam A. Ambroziak, prof. SGH – Industrialisation of cohesion policy

11:30 – 12:00
Coffee break

12:00 – 13:30
Session 2: Building Europe’s societal resilience in the light of the megatrends: population ageing, technological changes, changing world of jobs

Session coordinator: dr hab. Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak, prof. SGH, Vice Rector for Research

• Dr hab. Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak, prof. SGH, Vice Rector for Research – population ageing as a challenge for European social and economic policies
• Dr hab. Anna Kurowska, prof. UW – adaptive capacities of families
• Dr hab. Michał Brzeziński, prof. UW – inequalities
• Dr Weronika Kloc-Nowak, UW – migrations
• Dr Piotr Lewandowski – technology and skills shortages
   

13:30 – 14:30
Lunch

14:30 – 16:00
Session 3: Macroeconomic and institutional underpinnings of convergence in the CEE region 

Session coordinator: prof dr hab. Jakub Growiec

• Prof. dr hab. Jakub Growiec (SGH) – general overview 
• Dr hab. Jan Hagemejer, prof. UW – participation in global value chains 
• Dr Michał Gradzewicz (SGH) – markups, factor incomes
• Dr hab. Łukasz Goczek, prof. UW – institutional changes, e.g., privatization, control of corruption
• Dr Paweł Kopiec (SGH, EUI PhD) – fiscal policy

16:00 – 16:15
Closing of the Conference

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