Collegium of Economic Analysis provides high-quality scientific activity, which is confirmed by obtaining the A+ category in the process of evaluating scientific units twice - in 2013 and 2017, and also high-quality didactic activity - at the level of bachelor’s, master’s and postgraduate studies and in the field of doctoral student education. Conducted research, both basic and applied, as well as advisory and expert activities in external institutions, support the development of the economy based on innovation.
- Historical outline
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The Collegium of Economic Analysis was established thanks to the opportunity created by the University reform after the 1990 election. The concept of the reform, worked out by the Social Committee in which the major role was played by the later staff of the Collegium, assumed separating the organisation and management of teaching from research. A group of University staff from chairs and institutes dealing with the quantitative methods in the Faculty of Finance and Statistics together with a team from the Department of Political Economics of the Home Trade Faculty (the Wakar School) prepared a project of establishment of a collegium which would create favourable conditions for interdisciplinary scientific cooperation of representatives of different research disciplines as well as for a teaching offer planning. The founding project, being also an invitation to a wide circle of University staff to join the Collegium, worked out by this group said:
“The Collegium gathers scientists dealing with the research of individuals and business organisations (Microeconomics, Sociology, Psychology) and the research of economic and social processes, their determinants and consequences (Macroeconomics, Finance, Demography, Information Technology, Regional Economics). The research is meant to develop the theory of Economics as well as other social sciences and to develop the methods of analysis of Applied Economics, Applied Mathematics and Applied Statistics. The Collegium will initiate and support interdisciplinary research”.
The founding group of the Collegium included: Elżbieta Adamowicz, Janusz Beksiak, Wiesław Flakiewicz, Jan Goliński, Stanisław Góra, Urszula Grzelońska, Jerzy Holzer, Janina Jóźwiak, Roman Kulczycki, Andrzej Luszniewicz, Aleksander Müller, Tomasz Panek, Bogdan Stefanowicz. Rector Aleksander Müller made Elżbieta Adamowicz his proxy for the establishment of the Collegium of Economic Analysis.
The invitation to cooperate was accepted by staff members from four of the five faculties: Economics of Production, Finance and Statistics, Home Trade, Foreign Trade as well as extra faculty units. The newly created Collegium of Economic Analysis included the following units: Institute of Econometrics, Institute of Statistics and Demography, Institute of Economic Development, Department of Economics I, Department of Economic Cycle Research, Department of Economic Policy, Department of International Comparative Studies, Department of Economic and Spatial Economy and Department of Information Systems. The SGH Senate approved the Collegium organisation structure at a meeting on 22 April 1992 (Resolution no.55).
The first meeting of the Collegium of Economic Analysis was held on 12 June 1992. The first staff composition sent to the Central Commission for Scientific Titles and Degrees in order to obtain the right to promote scientific staff included 13 professors possessing the scientific titles and 20 people possessing the degree of doctor habilitatus. The founding stage of the Collegium was completed in January 1993. On 28 January 1992 the Scientific Council elected professor Janusz Beksiak the Collegium Proxy for the period of 15 February – 30 August 1993. In June this year the election of the first dean of the Collegium took place. Professor Janusz Beksiak was elected and he served two terms in this position, in the years 1993 – 1999. The first Dean of the Collegium of Economic Analysis appointed an informal team in order to discuss strategic problems connected with the development of the Collegium. Its working name was the Council of Old Men. After some time, it was transformed into an official body called the Consultative Team for research, later the Dean’s Meeting and now the Dean’s Council, composed by the heads of institutes and departments belonging to the Collegium.