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Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs

GROW Fellowship Programme

The Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs’ yearly fellowship programme addresses top economists/academics of recognised reputation. Their expert economic advice will support the Directorate-General in its analysis and policy making.

The type of expertise sought covers a broad range of fields spreading across industrial, trade and innovation policy, as well as policies related to market integration and, more generally, mission-oriented policy design. New and emerging issues with high relevance for the single market and EU industry are covered as well, for example

  • strategic autonomy
  • supply chain distress
  • future-proofing skills
  • impact investments and alternative business models
  • purposeful innovation
  • the industrial ecosystem approach

Based on a call for expression of interest running until mid-2026, this 4-year programme includes yearly cycles of evaluation of proposals and an evolving list of candidates in view of yearly appointments.

Fellow economists appointed for 2024

Cinzia Alcidi

Centre for European Policy Studies

Gabriel Felbermayr

Austrian Institute of Economic Research

Lionel Fontagné

Paris School of Economics, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Alicia García-Herrero

Bruegel

Anke Hassel

Hertie School (University of Governance - Berlin)

Beata Javorcik

EBRD, University of Oxford

Valentina Meliciani

University LUISS Guido Carli

Sandro Mendonça

University Institute of Lisbon - ISCTE Business School

Reinhilde Veugelers

KU Leuven

Joel Stiebale

Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics

GROW Fellowship 2023: closing event, 6 December 2023

Slide titled 'DG GROW Fellowship 2023 - Closing Event, featuring pictures of speakers

Presentation slides: Andrea Renda
Presentation slides: Andres Rodriguez-Pose 
Presentation slides: Lionel Fontagne
Presentation slides: Marina Ranga
Presentation slides: Slavo Radosevic
Presentation slides: Antonio Andreoni
Presentation slides: Beatrice Dumont
Presentation slides: Mario Holzner
Presentation slides: Yoto Yotov
Presentation slides: Robert Stehrer

Fellow economists appointed for 2023

Antonio
Andreoni
  • SOAS University of London (Department of Economics)
  • University College London (Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose)
Béatrice
Dumont
  • College of Europe, Bruges (Department of Economics)
  • University Paris 13 - Paris Nord
Lionel
Fontagné
  • University Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne
  • Paris School of Economics
Mario
Holzner
  • University of Vienna (Department of Economics)
  • WIIW (Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies)
Slavo
Radosevic
  • University College London (School of Slavonic and East European Studies)
Marina
Ranga
  • University of Warsaw (Faculty of Management)
Andrea
Renda
  • European University Institute (Florence, Italy)
  • CEPS (Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, Belgium)
Andrés
Rodriguez-Pose
  • London School of Economics
Robert
Stehrer
  • Technical University of Vienna (Institute of Mathematical Methods in Economics)
  • Vienna University of Economics and Business (Department of Economics)
  • WIIW (Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies)
Yoto
Yotov
  • Drexel University (School of Economics, Philadelphia, USA)
  • Ifo Institute

Contact

GROW-A1-EXPERTSatec [dot] europa [dot] eu (GROW-A1-EXPERTS[at]ec[dot]europa[dot]eu)

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