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Join the 2025 Summer School in Orléans: Global value chains (GVCs) and sustainable development
📅 When: 29th September – 3rd October, 2025
📍 Where: University of Orléans, France
What’s in it for you?
- Economics and Management comparative view of the challenges of raising uncertainty (climate change, geopolitical uncertainty, …) on GVCs
- Gain 3 ECTS credits and practical experience with applications.
- Learn from top experts, including Radoslaw Dolecki (Akademia Wincentego Pola), Sebastian Kessing (University of Siegen), Isabelle Rabaud (University of Orléans), and Volker Stein (University of Siegen).
- Participate in joint work with students from other Universities and an unforgettable visit of the DIOR factory in Chartres.
Programme Highlights:
- In-Person Sessions (29th September – 3rd October, 2025)
- Lectures, and practical sessions.
- Topics:
- Managerial and economic consequences of disruption of GVCs
- Challenges of sustainability for economics and management
- How to cope with long term risk in time of rising (geopolitical, environmental, security-related, …) uncertainty
- Economics and Management strategies to imagine the future: comparative view from France, Germany and Poland
- Online mid-term meeting (November 2025): Presentation of a progress report by the group
- Online defence of the report (December 2025): Presentation by the group of their results.
Who Should Attend?
This programme is perfect for Bachelor (3rd year)/Master to PhD students in:
- Economics and management
- No prior experience required—just passion for globalization and climate change!
Why Attend?
- Earn 3 credits while enhancing your skills.
- Collaborate in an international environment (sessions fully taught in English).
- Be part of common reflexion on topical issues in environment and globalization.
What’s the outcome?
- Adaptation to changing environment
- Coping with new challenges
- updated analysis
- identify available solutions
- bridging the gap between the micro and macro levels
- inter-cultural dialogue and collaboration (Orléans/France, Siegen/Germany and Lublin/Poland)
🎯 Register by 24 August, 2025 to secure your spot -> Application Online Form <-
Write to international.deg@univ-orleans.fr for more information.
👉 Join us in Orléans and shape the future of sustainable production through globalization.
Time-table
| Monday 29th September | Topic |
| 9:00-9:30 | Welcome |
| 9:30-10:00 | Summer school introduction |
| 10:00-12:00 | Describing the disruptions |
| 12:00-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-17:00 | Work group: definition of the project, constitution of the groups |
| Tuesday 30th September | Topic |
| 9:00-10:30 | Economic consequences of disruption of GVCs |
| 10:30-12:00 | Managerial consequences of disruption of GVCs |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00-17:00 | Scavenger Hunt |
| Wednesday 1st October | Topic |
| 9:00-10:30 | Challenges of sustainability for economics |
| 10:30-12:00 | Challenges of sustainability for management |
| 12:00-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-17:00 | Visit of Cheverny Castle |
| Thursday 2nd October | Topic |
| 9:00-10:30 | How to cope with long term risk in time of rising (geopolitical, environmental, security-related, …) uncertainty in economics |
| 10:30-12:00 | How to cope with long term risk in time of rising (geopolitical, environmental, security-related, …) uncertainty in management |
| 12:00-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-17:00 | Group work: preparing the presentation for Friday |
| Friday 3rd October | Topic |
| 9:00-12:00 | Presentation by the groups of their progress on imaging the future on their topic |
| 12:00-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-14:30 | Presentation of future steps and farewell |
