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2025 Summer School in Orléans: Global value chains (GVCs) and sustainable development

📅 When:  September-29 – October-3, 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 Cheverny Castle with its gardens.

 

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)

👉 Join us in Orléans and shape the future of sustainable production through globalization.

 

Time-table

Monday September 29

Topic

9:00-9:30

Welcome words (with coffee, tea and pastries)

9:30-10:00

Summer school introduction

10:00-12:00

Introduction to GVCs and Sustainable Development

12:00-14:00

Lunch

14:00-18:00

Work group

Tuesday September 30

Topic

9:00-10:30

Economic consequences of disruption of GVCs

10:30-12:00

Risk and GVCs

12:00-14:00

Lunch

14:00-16:00

Group work

17:00

Cocktail by the local authorities in the old town hall (Hôtel Groslot)

Wednesday October 1st

Topic

9:00-10:30

Management and sustainability

10:30-12:00

Management and sustainability

12:00-13:00

Lunch

14:00-16:00

Group work

17:00

Scavenger Hunt

Thursday October 2

Topic

9:00-10:30

Case study on logistics

10:30-12:00

Group work

12:00-12:45

Lunch

12:45-18:30

Visit of the Castle of Cheverny:
its gardens, park, kennel & exhibition on a famous French comic, Tintin!

Friday October 3

Topic

9:00-12:00

Choice of topics and organisation of the groups

12:00-13:30

Lunch

13:30-14:00

Presentation of future steps and farewell