Open Economic Lectures
Open Lectures in Economics in the academic year 2024/25
Edition IX October 2024 - January 2025
Online formula (MS Teams)
Selected Tuesdays 5.30 pm - 7.00 pm
Enrolment and registration: ekonomia@ug.edu.pl
The Open Economics Lectures, to which you are cordially invited, treat various aspects of economics!
Economics describes and analyses what makes up economic reality. Microeconomics is the science that studies the individual elements that make up the economy (such as companies, households, branches and sectors of the economy, etc.). Macroeconomics uses aggregate quantities and studies the regularities that occur in the economy as a whole, such as, among others, the creation and distribution of national income, inflation, unemployment and many other phenomena that affect our everyday life.
For whom:
Attendees of the lectures can be people of all ages, younger and older, pupils, teachers, students, graduates, people working in different sectors.
For students and teachers: it is a valuable aid to the issues that arise within the framework of ‘Entrepreneurship Basics’ and the teaching of economic and business subjects.
For students: some of the issues discuss economic problems that also occur in subject competitions.
For students: an aid to understanding the issues discussed in course lectures and to supplement knowledge studied in other disciplines.
For everyone: an explanation of current economic phenomena taking place in the world around us.
The Open Economic Lectures have also become a source of inspiration in the search for a career path based on sound knowledge of the surrounding world and the socio-economic system in which we live.
Website of the Open Economic Lectures:
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PROGRAMME OF THE IXth EDITION
The next lecture will take place on 22.10.2024.
Lecture entitled ‘ Impact of climate change on the development and importance of inland waterway transport’.
The lecture is led by: Associate Professor Ryszard Rolbiecki, Department of Transport Policy and Economic Integration.
Moderator: phd Magdalena Markiewicz
The effects of extreme weather events imply the need for a new look at the directions of the transport system development. This is because in the EU-27, this sector still has the largest share of greenhouse gas emissions and is the only one with the highest positive growth rate in emissions. Due to its numerous advantages, inland waterway transport plays an important role in achieving climate policy objectives. This represents an opportunity to strengthen the role of inland waterway transport in the transport systems of EU countries, as well as a chance to restore the transport function of inland waterways in countries that, despite their considerable potential, have previously underestimated the benefits associated with the development of this mode of transport. Climate change, while representing an opportunity for the development of inland waterway transport, also means an increase in the unpredictability of hydrological phenomena. Extreme weather events seriously disrupt the continuity and reliability of navigation. There is therefore a need to step up efforts to make inland waterway transport more ‘resilient’ to the effects of climate change and, as a result, to promote the development of this branch as one way of pursuing the goal of climate neutrality.
Link to Open Economic Lecture 22.10.2024
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