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April 13, 2016

PSE Summer School – Paris School of Economics

The PSE Summer School offers research-oriented teaching by leading experts in their fields. From June 27 to July 8, it seeks to gather Master and PhD students, post-doctoral students, academics, and professionals. PSE proposes four intensive one-week programmes, each being a full-time mix of coherent courses on topical issues, taught by PSE professors: Development, Microeconometrics, Industrial Organization and Macroeconomics. Deadline for applications: May 27th, 2016. More information HERE.

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April 2, 2016

Communications and Events Assistant – Job Opening

The UB Economics and Business unit is looking to recruit a Communications and Events Assistant to join the team. The successful candidate will be involved in the communication strategies to ensure high quality internal/external communication and actively contribute to the organization of events. Deadline for applications: April 28th, 2016. More information HERE.    

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April 1, 2016

The faculty of Economics and Business memorises the loss of five students

Abu Mukhina Saidov, Uzbek student of the Modul University in Vienna, Chloe Chouraqui, French student at the University of Poitiers, Elena Maestrini, Valentina Gallo and Lucrezia Borghi, Italian students of the University of Florence, who made an Erasmus exchange at the Faculty of Economics and Business tragically died in the Freginals accident. The entire university community of the faculty joined in grief with the relatives and friends, also in regards to the other eight students…

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April 1, 2016

Summer School in Quantitative Economics – University of Cagliari

The Department of Economics and Business at the University of Cagliari organizes the Summer School in Quantitative Economics in Cagliari, Sardinia, from the 4th to the 22th of July 2016. The school consists of 6 courses designed for anyone working in applied macroeconomics. Both researchers and policymakers will find the courses particularly useful. Deadline for applications: April 20th, 2016. More information HERE.

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April 1, 2016

International Academic Symposium on “Challenges for the Energy Sector” – Call for papers

The Chair of Energy Sustainability at UB and Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB) will host its fifth International Academic Symposium on “Challenges for the Energy Sector” on the 7th February 2017. The Symposium will try to shed light on the unprecedented economic challenges the sector is facing. Authors are invited to submit empirical papers with policy implications regarding the economics of oil, gas or electricity sector. Deadline for submissions: May…

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April 1, 2016

LERU universities take a close look at how they maintain high quality doctoral education

The League of European Research Universities (LERU) has for many years now called attention to the importance of innovative doctoral education. In their latest, fourth paper, they analyse how LERU universities go about ensuring that they achieve their objectives to train doctoral researchers to the highest skill levels to become creative, critical and autonomous intellectual risk takers. More information HERE.

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