For several years, the SGH Warsaw School of Economics has been the main content partner of the Economic Forum in Karpacz – the largest and most important event for representatives of the economic elites of the Central and Eastern Europe region. The involvement in the organisation and course of the Economic Forum is important for SGH for substantive, prestigious as well as promotional and media reasons.
Since 2018, an inseparable element of the Forum to inaugurate this prestigious event, attracting several thousand participants, has been the presentation of the Report of SGH and the Economic Forum prepared by several dozen SGH experts. The report provides insight into what is happening in the Central European economy. If someone wants to take the pulse of Central Europe, they must first read this report. This year will see the eighth edition of the Report. The publication – which is a comprehensive summary of the most important economic and social processes occurring in Poland and in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe – contains chapters written by SGH experts, eminent in many areas of economic life, and one chapter is prepared by analysts of the European Investment Bank.
Since 2019, the SGH Economic Award has also been granted during the Forum. It is a distinction for people who have made special accomplishments in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation, contributing to the economic development of Poland.
SGH is also a content partner of three other important congresses annually held in Poland: the International Economic Congress Impact in Poznań, the European Forum for New Ideas (EFNI) in Sopot and the Open Eyes Economy Summit (OEES) in Krakow. It is also an institutional partner of the European Economic Congress (ECE) in Katowice. The formula of these congresses assumes the panel participation of numerous SGH scientists and experts in various fields, as well as the SGH rector and chancellor authorities. SGH cooperates with the leading Polish media in media coverage of these events. The reports can also be found on the pages of the SGH Magazine, in social media and on the SGH YouTube channel.
KAROLINA CYGONEK, Editor-in-Chief of SGH Magazine
The first laureate of the SGH Economic Award was the president of LUX MED Group, Dr. Anna Rulkiewicz. She was granted the award for activities that made LUX MED Group the leader of the Polish private healthcare industry. In 2020, the Award was given to president of PKO Bank Polski Zbigniew Jagiełło, for enhancing the position of the PKO Business Group as a leader of the financial market in the Central and Eastern Europe. The 2021 SGH Economic Award went to Krzysztof Pawiński, co-founder, co-owner, and currently also the president of the Management Board of Maspex Group, one of the biggest food producers in Central and Eastern Europe. In 2022, the winner of the SGH Economic Award was Dr. Irena Eris, the founder and owner of firm Dr Irena Eris. For almost four decades Dr. Eris has been among the top Polish business leaders, successfully expanding her skincare cosmetics firm, renowned for their high quality in Poland and abroad. In 2023, the SGH Economic Award was given to Czesław Lang, world championship medalist, vice-champion at the Moscow Olympics (1980) in road bicycle racing, entrepreneur, organiser of Tour de Pologne. And in 2024, the winner was Professor Henryk Skarżyński, famous otolaryngologist, audiologist and phoniatrist, the founder and director of the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing and the World Hearing Centre at Kajetany. The interview with the Professor on the next page.
