Central and South-East European PhD Network http://ceseenet.org

The purpose of Central and South-East European PhD Network is to promote and facilitate cooperation between the universities from Central and South-East Europe that offer PhD education in Economics, Business and Finance in order to increase the quality of their PhD programs. The network will enable universities to organize

 common courses in the specific fields of study,  seminars,  exchange PhD students and  intensify research cooperation

The participating schools will benefit from the network activities, while maintaining the integrity of their accredited PhD programs within the network.

Activities  Organizing common courses in specific fields of study,  Organizing research seminars,  Facilitating PhD student exchanges,  Strengthening research cooperation,  Promoting cooperation on doctoral committees,  Establishing a working paper series,  Developing a joint academic journal,  Organizing a competition for the best paper in the region,  Organizing a summer school for PhD students and

Helping participating programs create an environment of excellence with a European perspective, while still pursuing diversity.

Member Universities of Economics, , AUSTRIA: http://ef.unibl.org/eng Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics, University of Vienna, BULGARIA: http://wirtschaftswissenschaften.univie.ac.at/en Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia Faculty of Management and Economics, Alpen-Adria University, https://www.uni-sofia.bg/eng Universität Klagenfurt, http://www.uni- University of Economics – Varna, http://www.ue- klu.ac.at/fwiwi_eng varna.bg/en/

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: CZECH REPUBLIC School of Economics and Business, University of Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk Sarajevo, http://www.efsa.unsa University Brno, http://www.econ.muni.cz/en

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CROATIA: ROMANIA: Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Zagreb, http://www.efzg.unizg.hr Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napcoa, Faculty of Economics, , http://www.ubbcluj.ro/en http://www.efst.unist.hr/content.php?k=fakultet&p=42 Bucharest University of Economic Studies, &l=eng http://www.ase.ro/index_en.asp Faculty of Economics, , http://www.efri.uniri.hr/en SERBIA: Faculty of Economics, , HUNGARY: http://www.bg.ac.rs/en Faculty of Business Administration, Corvinus University of Budapest, http://cbs.uni-corvinus.hu Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Pecs, SLOVAKIA: http://pte.hu/english University of Economics in Bratislava, http://www.euba.sk/?lang=en ITALY: Ca' Foscari University of Venice, SLOVENIA: http://www.unive.it/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=10497 Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, http://www.ef.uni-lj.si/en POLAND: Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Cracow University of Economics, Maribor, http://www.epf.uni-mb.si http://uek.krakow.pl/en

Conferences & Summer Schools

April 7-8, 2016 8th International Scientific Conference ENTRE 2016 "Advancing Research in Entrepreneurship in Global Context" University of Economics, Campus of the CUE, Kraków, Poland

June 08-11, 2016 8th International Conference “An Enterprise Odyssey: Saving the Sinking Ship through Human Capital” Faculty of Economics & Business ,

September 12-16, 2016 AIDEA Capri Summer School 2016 The Call for Participation for the AIDEA Capri Summer School on Research Methods in Management Studies (IV Edition) is open!

For more information please check the webpage: http://ceseephd.net/conferences-summer-schools/

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Information for Students

The purpose of the Central and South-East European PhD Network is to promote and facilitate cooperation within the universities from Central and South East Europe that offer PhD education in Economics and Business in order to increase the quality of their PhD programs. Specifically, the network will enable universities to organize common courses in the specific fields of study and summer schools.

Students have the possibility to participate in these Arrival at the Partner University courses at the partner universities and obtain credits by attending these specialized courses. Upon arrival please contact the administrative support person of the host university to make sure you are Application for Courses registered for your courses, as well as to get your letter of confirmation signed and stamped (see below). (A) Students have to choose the relevant courses in cooperation with the PhD advisor at the home Course list: Summer 2016 university. Please find online: (B) The course list for the next semester will be http://ceseephd.net/courses/spring-2016/ published on: http://ceseephd.net/courses/ (C) For course application students should directly contact the administrative support person of COORDINATOR 2014-2016: the network partners (listed at the CESEENET- Prof. Dr. Josef Windsperger webpage). University of Vienna (D) In order to get detailed course information, Department of Management students should also contact the lecturer of the Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 course at the partner university. 1090 Wien (E) For final coordination issues, students may also T: +43-1-4277-38180 contact the coordinator of CESEENET and the Email: responsible administrative support person. [email protected]

CESEENet working papers

We also provide the opportunity to publish WORKING PAPERS of the CESEENet-PhD students in the field of business, economics and finance. Therefore, we want to invite you to submit your work.

Submission rules

(A) The paper must be submitted to the coordinator of the CESEENet (Prof. Dr. Josef Windsperger - [email protected]) who has to assign two reviewers. (B) The paper will be reviewed by a and a PhD student; both will complete a review report. (C) Finally after revision of the paper, it will be published on the CESEENet-webpage.

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Letter of Confirmation

1. Personal Information

Surname: First Name:

Area of Study: Host Institution:

Name of Supervisor at your Home Institution: Home Institution:

2. Course List To be signed by the Course Instructor

Course Title: Grade ECTS Confirmation of attendance:

3. Duration of stay

To be filled in and signed upon arrival and departure by the respective Executive Committee member of CESEENET

______(Name)

Arrival Date: ______University stamp and signature ______

Departure Date: ______University stamp and signature ______

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