UniCredit & Universities launches the first CEE Best Ph.D. Thesis Award
UniCredit & Universities Foundation has launched the 1st competition for 6 CEE Best Ph.D. Thesis Award, aimed at all young of Ph.D. graduates from the CEE countries belonging to the geographical scope our Group.
The prizes will be awarded to 6 outstanding doctoral dissertations, in economics or finance, on European integration issues. Two prizes will be assigned to dissertations on migration, two will be assigned to dissertations on development and demography, while the last two are unrestricted (to be assigned to any other topic). The 6 best dissertations will receive € 5,000 each and will be published in the Working Paper series of the Foundation.
The competition is open both to our Colleagues and to externals to the Group.
The conditions for participation are as follows:
- Applicants must be citizens of one of the 19 UniCredit Group is present;
- Applicants must have completed a Ph.D. in economics, finance, political and social sciences in any accredited European or non-European university;
- Ph.D. dissertations must have been examined within the 18-month period from 1 January 2009 up to 30 June 2010.
The Ph.D. dissertations must be written in English and sent in PDF format. Candidates may only apply on-line, using the application form available on the UniCredit & Universities Foundation’s website. Applications can be sent by December 31, 2010.
The Foundation’s Scientific Committee, composed of 6 professors from the main European Universities, will be responsible for the selection procedure and will identify the winners of the competition. Winners will be notified on OneGate by 15 March 2011.
With this competition, UniCredit & Universities Foundation once more testifies its commitment to supporting the best students and researchers in the fields of economics and finance.
NOTE
Ukrsotsbank is one of the largest universal banks of Ukraine, operating in the local market since 1990. The bank offers full range of services to individuals and corporate clients.
The renovated Ukrsotsbank emerged on 31 October 2016 as a result of strategic deal whereby 99.9% of Ukrsotsbank shares have been transferred from UniCredit Group to ABH Holdings S.A. (АВНН) in exchange for a minority 9.9% stake in ABHH. Thus, the bank has combined 26-year-old traditions of Ukrsotsbank’s client-centric attitude, European quality of service inherent to UniCredit, as well as international banking expertise of ABHH in a number of European countries including CIS. Thanks to the successful synthesis and synergy of the two assets of ABHH in Ukraine, Ukrsotsbank and Alfa-Bank, the banking market of Ukraine will see the rise of a new stronger financial institution. This, in turn, will spur up technological advance, increase efficiency, improve quality of service for the clients, reduce cost of banking services whereas their range will inevitably expand.
The extensive retail network of Ukrsotsbank consists of 237 branches, its headcount reaching nearly 5 thousand employees.
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