Research conducted at the Department of Integration and European Law | SGH

Research conducted at the Department of Integration and European Law covers issues related to European integration, international regulations of international cooperation, changes in the economies of EU Member States and third countries, as well as the system of international law.

Fields of research of the Department of European Integration and Legal Studies:

Conditions, fields and possible effects of the development of the European integration (economic, legal, political, institutional; perspectives for deepening integration within the EU Internal Market; perspectives for changes in the EU financing system; directions of changes of the Common Commercial Policy (CCP), the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and the Cohesion Policy; the energy and climate policy; the budgetary and tax policy; the industrial policy, the competition policy and the state aid policy; further EU’s enlargement; ensuring the resilience of the EU economy as well as EU’s relations with third countries;
Directions of the changes in the international regulatory system for international cooperation (within the WTO and other international organisations): the need for new WTO activities in a global crisis situation, the effectiveness of current WTO instruments and proposals for new measures; functioning of regional integration groupings in the world, including the trade ones;
Comparative studies of the economies of the EU Member States and third countries, with particular emphasis on the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Asia;
Studies on the universal system of international law and subsystems of international law. Research on changes in the catalogue of legal entities and norms co-creating the system of international law. Research on the conditions, directions and effects of the constitutionalization of the international law system, as well as fragmentation of international law.

Research financed from a subsidy for the Collegium of World Economy of the WSE (since 2020)

2023 - Poland in the European Union. Report 2024; Head: Associate Professor Adam A. Ambroziak, Ph.D.

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2022 – Poland in the European Union. Report 2023; Head: Associate Professor Adam A. Ambroziak, Ph.D.

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2021 – Poland in the European Union. Report 2022; Head: Associate Professor Adam A. Ambroziak, Ph.D.

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2020 – Poland in the European Union. Report 2021; Head: Associate Professor Adam A. Ambroziak, Ph.D.

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Research carried out in the Jean Monnet Chair of European Integration (until 2019)

National Science Center (NCN) Grant

Intra-industry trade as a measure of changes in the specialisation of the new Member States economies (EU-10) in the process of adjustment to the Single European Market in the years 1995-2013 (NCN grant implemented in 2014-2017); Head: Professor Elżbieta Kawecka-Wyrzykowska, Ph.D.

RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

Research project: European Research Study Group on the Political Economy of the EMU
Title of the programme: Jean Monnet Multilateral Research Groups
Professor E. Kawecka-Wyrzykowska, Ph.D.
Project coordinator: University of Piraeus Research Centre
Implementation period: 2012-2014

Research project: Developing trade and trade policy relations with the European Union - Experience of V4 countries an implications/lessons for EaPs (financed by the Visegrad Fund)
Professor E. Kawecka-Wyrzykowska, Ph.D.
Project coordinator: Institute of World Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Implementation period: 2013

Research project: Comparative Regional Integration; The European Integration Process and Its Implication to East Asia
Title of the programme: Lifelong Learning, Erasmus, Jean Monnet Project (European Commission)
Project coordinator: Renmin University (China)
Project Head at the Warsaw School of Economics: Professor Gunter Heiduk, Ph.D., Professor Elżbieta Kawecka-Wyrzykowska, Ph.D.
Project Implementation Unit: Institute of World Economy; Jean Monnet Chair of European Integration
Foreign partners: University of Essex (UK), University of Hildesheim (Germany), University of Trento (Italy)
Implementation period: 2008-2010

Research project: Five years of the EU eastward enlargement - Effects on Visegrad Countries; Lessons for the Future
Title of the programme: International Visergrad Fund
Project Head at the Warsaw School of Economics: Professor Elżbieta Kawecka-Wyrzykowska, Ph.D.
Project Implementation Unit: Jean Monnet Chair of European Integration
Partners: University of Economics (Czech Republic), Corvinus University (Hungary)
Implementation period: 2009

Teaching project: European Integration
Title of the programme: Jean Monnet - European Module 2007
Project coordinator: Education Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency
Project Head at the Warsaw School of Economics: Adam A. Ambroziak, Ph.D.
Project Implementation Unit: Jean Monnet Chair of European Integration
Implementation period: 2007-2012

Teaching project: European Union as a player in the international relations
Title of the programme: Jean Monnet - European Module 2006
Project coordinator: Education Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency
Project Head at the Warsaw School of Economics: Adam A. Ambroziak, Ph.D.
Project Implementation Unit: Jean Monnet Chair of European Integration
Implementation period: 2006-2011

Teaching project: Internal Market of the EU - economic dimension
Title of the programme: Jean Monnet - European Module 2005
Project coordinator: Education Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency
Project Head at the Warsaw School of Economics: Adam A. Ambroziak, Ph.D.
Project Implementation Unit: Jean Monnet Chair of European Integration
Implementation period: 2005-2010

STATUTORY RESEARCH

2020 – Current challenges of the European economy and international law
Head: Professor Jerzy Menkes, Ph.D.

2019 – The single European market in the face of global and intra-EU challenges
Head: Associate Professor Adam A. Ambroziak, Ph.D.

2018 – Factors and prospects for the development of trade and investments between Poland and China. Selected aspects
Head: Associate Professor Alina Szypulewska-Porczyńska, Ph.D.

2017 – Future and challenges for the European Union - consequences for the economic integration of Brexit
Head: Associate Professor Adam A. Ambroziak, Ph.D

2016 – Analysis of selected factors improving the competitiveness of the EU economy in the context of the implementation of the Europe 2020 strategy; Poland’s dimension
Head: Associate Professor Alina Szypulewska-Porczyńska, Ph.D.

2016 – The future of the EU internal market marked by the experiences of the last 20 years
Head: Associate Professor Adam A. Ambroziak, Ph.D.

2015 – The new industrial policy for the European Union
Head: Associate Professor Adam A. Ambroziak, Ph.D.

2015 – New economic governance in the European Union - Poland’s perspective
Head: Associate Professor Alina Szypulewska-Porczyńska, Ph.D.

2014 – Regional dimension of financial support to entrepreneurs in Poland within the framework of the EU economic policy in the years 2007-2013
Head: Associate Professor Adam A. Ambroziak, Ph.D.

2013 – Coordination of economic policy in the EU: effects and difficulties (Polish point of view)
Head: Professor Elżbieta Kawecka-Wyrzykowska, Ph.D.

2013 – Influence of changes in the EU economic policy in 2014-2020 on the investment attractiveness of regions in Poland
Head: Associate Professor Adam A. Ambroziak, Ph.D.

2012 – Selected instruments improving competitiveness of the European Union in the light of its new economic strategy Europe 2020
Head: Professor Elżbieta Kawecka-Wyrzykowska, Ph.D.

2011 – Selected instruments improving competitiveness of the Polish economy in the light of negotiations on the EU financial perspective after 2013
Head: Professor Elżbieta Kawecka-Wyrzykowska, Ph.D.

OWN RESEARCH

2010 – Directions of changes in the EU Cohesion Policy: conclusions for Poland
Head: Professor Elżbieta Kawecka-Wyrzykowska, Ph.D.

2010 – EU internal market strategy after the crisis 2008-2010
Head: Associate Professor Adam A. Ambroziak, Ph.D.

2010 – Internal market for services. Construction balance sheet
Head: Alina Szypulewska-Porczyńska, Ph.D.

2010 – Factors for the development of intra-industry trade in the new EU Member States
Head: Łukasz Ambroziak, MA

2009 – Five years of Poland’s membership in the European Union: have we seized the opportunities?
Head: Professor Elżbieta Kawecka-Wyrzykowska, Ph.D.

2009 – Admissibility of the state aid granted to entrepreneurs in the European Union
Head: Associate Professor Adam A. Ambroziak, Ph.D.

2009 – EU trade policy for services. The importance of multilateral cooperation within the WTO
Head: Alina Szypulewska-Porczyńska, Ph.D.

2008 – Opportunities and instruments to pursue Poland’s national interests in the European Union
Head: Professor Elżbieta Kawecka-Wyrzykowska, Ph.D.

2007 – Effects of the functioning of special economic zones in Poland
Head: Adam A. Ambroziak, Ph.D.

2006 – Functioning of special economic zones in Poland in the face of changes in the conditions for granting the regional aid
Head: Adam A. Ambroziak, Ph.D.

2005 – The impact of the new guidelines on the national regional aid on the functioning of special economic zones in Poland
Head: Adam A. Ambroziak, Ph.D.

YOUNG SCIENTISTS’S RESEARCH

2011 – Intra-industry trade of the Visegrad Group countries; the example of the automotive industry - Łukasz Ambroziak, MA