Subject area "Economics and Management"
Within the Eurolegaue for Life Sciences the faculties and departments focusing on economics,
management and social sciences developed corresponding subject area. Because economics,
management and social sciences have their important place within the structures of education
and research of ELLS universities, it is beneficial to join individual experience of universities
and their achievements under common subject area. It uses the synergy of all participants.
The orientation of this subject area is closely related to the European dimension of rural
development. It is because of two pillars of Common Agricultural Policy. However,
although there is the European dimension of rural development, it is not possible to speak
about “common European countryside” but rather about “various European country-sides”.
Such diversity of European rural areas is a great challenge for this subject area because it
necessitates creativity in establishing the relations between national specificities of rural
areas and common European dimension of rural development. It is the way in which this
subject area supports the ambition of ELLS to spread ahead the European Education and
Research Area. National rural areas can be a sort of laboratory for future development as for
the challenges of the contemporary world. Because the countryside and its main activity –
farming – are closely linked with life sciences, in order to make these activities sustainable
it is necessary to “dress” them into economic and social context. In such a view, this subject
area can push forward the education in ELLS toward higher integration reflecting the
principles of sustainable development.
Main objectives:
To provide the students the possibility to participate in the intensive programmes of the summer school type addressing the application of courses from their home universities in the rural development viewed from international prospects and in interdisciplinary dimensions.To highlight rural development in interdisciplinary viewsTo bring students and teachers from various countries and fields related to economics, management, and social sciences together in order to promote and exchange their knowledge, to improve the quality of their work (incl. degree thesis) and to test their skills while practising development projects.
Joint study courses in 2010
- Economics, management and social sciences:
their application in rural development
(July 4 – July 11, 2010, BOKU Vienna).
Joint Study Courses in 2007
- Economics, Management and Social Sciences:
Their Application in Rural Developments
13 - 26 July 2008, CULS Prague
Contact
List of subject area representatives at the individual ELLS universities