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A platform for the Kelso-Professorship at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) (Germany) and its strategic partners, the Kelso Institute for the Study of Economic Systems, San Francisco CA (USA), Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), University of Split (Croatia) and Pantheon-Sorbonne University (France).
Highlights & News
November 7th to 9th, Brussels: Consulting at the European Commission and European Parliament
Prof. Dr. Lowitzsch met with European leaders and researchers in Brussels to discuss employee financial participation and citizens’ involvement in the energy transition. He also participated in two conferences on clean energy financing1 (picture below) and demand flexibility2.
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October 30th, 2017: The Berlin plea calls for more employee financial participation in the next legislative term
A consortium from business, science and other interst groups has signed the Berlin Plea3. With this bill they emphasize the importance of employee capital ownership participation and urge the new German government to put it on their future agenda. In the coming term the bi-partisan goal should be to let more employees directly profit from the sucess of their companies. Also Prof. Dr. Lowitzsch signed the plea3.
For more information, please visit www.mitarbeiterbeteiligung.de4.
June 29, 2017, Frankfurt (Oder): Renewal of the partnership between the European University Viadrina and the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
The ceremonial signing of the respective agreements took place in our office premises.
Photo: (c) Heide Fest
May 17-21, 2017, Procida: “Towards a Re-Conceptualisation of Property Rights”
Presentation of the international and interdisciplinary research group “Property Rights, Globalisation and the Social Function of Property"
Procida Symposion, 17-21 May 2017
6April 24, 2017, Poznan: Seminar for faculty members at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Prof. Dr. Lowitzsch presented local faculty members the topic "Automation, digital revolution and capital concentration: The elephant in the room - A race for the machine?" ("Digitalizacja, Automatyzacja, zatrudnienie i dystrybucja .Słoń w pomieszczeniu") at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.
February 15, 2017, Paris: Enhancing our partnership with our french colleagues
Prof. Dr. Lowitzsch currently teaches as a guest lecturer at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. During his stay, he is also enhancing our partnership with our french colleagues and meeting new partners for joint projects.
November 15, 2016, Berlin: Employee share ownership and profit-sharing workshop
More information about the workshop
7Photo gallery of the event
8September 1, 2016, Brussels: Public hearing of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs of the European Parliament on “Employee financial participation in the age of digitalisation”
Prof. Dr. Lowitzsch presented the topic "Automation, digital revolution and capital concentration: The elephant in the room - A race for the machine?" at the public hearing of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs of the European Parliament on “Employee financial participation in the age of digitalisation”.
September 6. - 8. 2016, Krynica: 26th Economic Forum "United or Divided? Europe in the Face of the Challenges of Tomorrow" in Krynica
Prof. Dr. Lowitzsch took part in the 26th Economic Forum "United or Divided? Europe in the Face of the Challenges of Tomorrow" in Krynica. Initiated by the "Foundation Institute for Eastern Studies", the conference in Krynica became one of the most important platforms for debates about the European Economic Policy over the last 25 years.
Meeting of the Inter-University Centre with the french partners at the office of the recently elected president of Paris-Sorbonne University
11Video message by Commissioner Michel Barnier
Taking Action: Promotion of Employee Share Ownership
Debating concrete policy options in the context of the EC Action Plan on Corporate Governance
Employee shareholding, which is a type of long-term investment that may have a stabilising effect on capital markets, is recently receiving serious attention at EU level. Indeed, employee share ownership (ESO) was included in the 2012 EC Action Plan on Corporate Governance and Company Law in order to identify concrete policy measures to promote ESO.
In this context, potential policy options are to be discussed at the full-day conference "Taking Action: Promotion of Employee Share Ownership – Debating concrete policy options in the context of the EC Action Plan on Corporate Governance". The interim results of the EU pilot project Promotion of Employee Ownership and Participation will be presented and best-practice examples from different countries debated.
Michel Barnier, EU Commissioner for Internal Market and Services will open the conference with a keynote speech. The event is jointly organised by DG Internal Market and Services, Europa-Universität Viadrina and Freie Universität Berlin (Inter-University Centre).