1. Cracow Summer School Workshop
Poland, July 2010
Current Economic Developments
& Policy Challenges facing CE Europe
Invitation
The Growth Research Unit [GRU] at the Cracow University of Economics is a group of
international academics and/or policy makers specialised on the behavioural variance of
capitalist systems in the transforming economies of CE Europe and SE Asia. Our strength
areas of teaching and research interests are focused on the strategic determinants of
growth and the extent of their impact in influencing economic and social change.
We would like to invite international students to join our summer school programme in
Southern Poland, which will run for seven days and which is made up of three specialised
workshops and includes a built in company field trip. The three workshop modules that will
be provided are:
Growth & its Determinants, Finance & Banking and Trade & Investment. Each of these
modules will draw closely on related fields such as welfare distribution, labour market
change, public & private finance, policy, foreign direct investment, its location and its impact
on the development of regional production and trade. Each module will run for a period of
two days and has been designed to provide students with a comprehensive insight into the
development and operation of these areas of economic activity in the former socialist
countries of CE Europe, while at the same time addressing some of the key decisions and
policy challenges that these countries will be facing in the years ahead. This three-part
programme integrates a company field trip, which will enable students to gain an on-the-
ground insight as well as some orientation as to the scale of economic progress achieved
to date.
Optional Visits
In addition to the seven-day workshop, students can also choose to join one or both of our
optional excursions. The first of these is an afternoon trip to the Wieliczka Salt Mine, which
will take place on Friday July 9th before the workshops programme gets underway on the
Saturday. Students may also opt to join a planned weekend trip to Zakopane in the Polish
mountains - a resort that attracts ski enthusiasts in the winter and which is popular for
tourists, hikers and sports enthusiasts in the summer. This trip has been organised to take
place at the end of the programme, departing Cracow on Saturday 17th July and returning
on Monday 19th. Please remember that these trips are purely optional and are not included
in the main programme.
We hope to have the pleasure of meeting you!

2. Overall Schedule
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Thursday 8 July 2010 Student Arrivals Evening Student-Staff Get Together
Friday 9/7/10 Free Time Optional Excursion to the Wieliczka Salt Mine
(Afternoon)
Workshop Programme Commences Saturday 10/7/2010
Day/Date Morning 12:00–13:30 Afternoon
9:00 – 12:00 Lunch 13:30 – 16:00
Break
Saturday 10/7/10 1. Introduction on Growth & Lunch Economic Growth in CE
Growth Workshop Theoretical Methodology Break Europe Applied
Sunday 11/7/10 Growth Workshop Lunch Interpretation of Group
Continued Break Results
Monday 12/7/10 2. Financing Growth in CE Lunch Finance Workshop on CE
Finance Workshop Europe Theory & Applied Break Europe Theory & Applied
Tuesday 13/7/10 Finance Workshop Lunch Interpretation of Group
Continued Break Results
Wednesday 14/7/10 Company Field Trip Company Field Trip
Thursday 15/7/10 3. Trade & Investment (T&I) Lunch (T&I) Workshop on Selected
T&I Workshop Theory & Insight Break CE Countries
Friday 16/7/10 Trade & Investment Lunch Interpretation of Group
Workshop Continued Break Results
Workshop Programme Concludes 16/7/2010
Saturday 17/7/10 Staff/Student Breakfast Food Arrive Zakopane Afternoon
Zakopane & Depart for Zakopane arrangements
Sunday 18/7/10 Zakopane will be Zakopane
Monday 19/7/10 Depart for Cracow Late organised in Arrive Cracow
Morning advance. Afternoon
Useful Notes:
1. For students who have decided to register for this programme, please first review the
information on course fees as well as those for our planned excursions. An application form
is available for download on the first page of our website: www.gru.uek.krakow.pl
2. Once you have filled out your application form, please email/fax it to our summer school
project co-ordinators (Dominika Lemler & Małgorzata Sadowska), who will contact you
upon receipt and confirm your participation in the programme. Payment and account details
will be forwarded onto you at this point.
Dominika Lemler (MA) Małgorzata Sadowska
Email: dominika.lemler@uek.krakow.pl Email: sadowskm@uek.krakow.pl
Fax: +48 12 293 50 97

3. Course Fees
The total fees payable for this programme per person include the following:
• Tuition Fees for Three Workshops
• Shared Accommodation with Breakfast
• Company Field Trip
• Staff/Student Breakfast (17.7.2010)
Total Costs = 850 Euros
Optional Excursions
The main details and costs for those opting to join one or both of our additional excursions
are as follows:
Afternoon Trip to the Wieliczka Salt Mine
The cost of this afternoon excursion will be 30 Euros. This includes:
• Transport to and from the Wieliczka Salt Mine with members of staff
• A fully guided tour of the mine
Weekend trip to Zakopane
The cost of this weekend excursion will be 130 Euros per head. This includes:
• Transport to and from Zakopane with our members of staff
• Two nights accommodation with breakfast
• Sightseeing tour of Zakopane
• Other activities to be arranged
To register for our academic programme and to sign up for our planned excursions please
complete our application form, which can be found on the first page of our website
www.gru.uek.krakow.pl
Thank you for your interest in our programme!