📅 When: September-29 – October-3, 2025 📍 Where: University of Orléans, France
Join the 2025 Summer School in Orléans: Global value chains (GVCs) and sustainable development
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, Sebastian Kessing, Isabelle Rabaud, and Volker Stein.
 - Participate in joint work with students from other Universities and an unforgettable visit of the DIOR factory in Chartres.
 
Programme Highlights:
- In-Person Sessions (September-29 – October-3, 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 July 11, 2025 to secure your spot!
Write to international.deg@univ-orleans.fr for more information.
👉 Join us in Orléans and shape the future of sustainable production through globalization.
Timetable
Monday September 29  | 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 September 30  | 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  | Visit of DIOR factory in Chartres  | 
Wednesday October 1st   | 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  | Scavenger Hunt  | 
Thursday October 2  | 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 October 3  | 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  |