SZKOLA GLOWNA HANDLOWA W WARSZAWIE

Their core work

SGH Warsaw School of Economics is Poland's leading economics university, contributing social science research and quantitative analysis to EU-funded projects on European social policy, migration, public health economics, and innovation policy. Their H2020 work focuses on understanding the socio-economic dimensions of European challenges — from evaluating the Innovation Union's impact to analyzing COVID-19's non-health consequences across Europe. They bring expertise in cross-national survey methodology, social-economic modelling, and policy evaluation to large interdisciplinary consortia.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

SGH's early H2020 participation (2015–2018) centred on innovation policy evaluation, open government, and demographic survey infrastructure — broadly about how European institutions and policies perform. From 2020 onward, their focus shifted decisively toward social vulnerability: EU social rights, migration into declining regions, and the socio-economic fallout of COVID-19. The trajectory shows a move from institutional/policy analysis toward people-centred research on inequality, inclusion, and crisis resilience.

SGH is moving toward research on how European societies absorb shocks — pandemics, migration, regional decline — making them a strong partner for projects on social resilience and just transitions.

How they like to work

SGH has participated exclusively as a consortium partner, never as coordinator, across all six H2020 projects. With 58 unique partners across 19 countries, they operate in large, diverse consortia rather than tight repeated partnerships. This profile suggests a reliable contributing partner that brings specific analytical capabilities to broad European research networks without seeking to lead them.

SGH has built a broad European network spanning 58 unique partners across 19 countries, reflecting their consistent role in large cross-national consortia. Their geographic reach is pan-European with no visible concentration in a single region.

What sets them apart

SGH combines a top-tier economics faculty with deep experience in cross-national quantitative social research, which is relatively rare among Central European partners in H2020. Their strength lies in bridging economic modelling with social policy questions — they can quantify the impact of migration on regional economies or measure how pandemic restrictions affected household wellbeing across countries. For consortium builders, they offer a credible Polish partner with genuine analytical capacity on socio-economic topics, not just a geographic flag.

Highlights from their portfolio

• SHARE-COVID19
  Largest single grant (EUR 347K) — studied non-health consequences of pandemic control decisions across Europe using the established SHARE survey infrastructure.
• EUSOCIALCIT
  Directly addresses the future of EU social citizenship and social rights — high policy relevance for the European Pillar of Social Rights agenda.
• WelcomingSpaces
  Unusual combination of migration research with regional revitalization — links non-EU migrant integration to sustainable development in shrinking areas.