Competition Challenges in the New Digital Economy
Target group
- Bachelor students in the advanced stages of their study programmes and Master's students;
- Professionals (with at least a bachelor's degree) interested in how competition policy works in the context of the new digital economy.
Specific admission conditions:
or
ii) Hold a bachelor's degree or legal equivalent.
Ranking Criteria:
1. Priority* for people over 23 years old;
2.1. Curriculum Vitae and academic background (40%);
2.2. Motivation for attending the training (Motivation Letter) (40%);
2.3. Proficiency in the English (to be demonstrated in the writing of the motivation letter) (20%).
*The present training prioritizes the admission of over 23-years-old candidates (age at the beginning of the training), so under-age candidates can be admitted, however, they will only be graded after the admission of all eventual over 23-years-old candidates.
Tiebreaker:
Higher age.
Objectives
- Learning Objectives: provide specialized knowledge on the challenges that the digital economy poses to the theory and practice of competition policy.
- Skills to acquire: (i) analytical skills (understand the functioning of digital markets, develop a solid economic approach to studying antitrust cases in the digital sector; identify situations of failure of competition in digital markets); (ii) planning skills (anticipating, based on analytical tools, the likely effects of practices adopted by digital platforms).
Teaching mode:
B-learning.
Calendar
Calendar: 2 weeks, from 4th to 14th July, 2023.
Week 1:
Class 7 (face-to-face) – Friday, July 14, 2023 (6:00 pm – 9:00 pm).
Information
Important dates:
Submission of applications – 13 to 30/03/2023.
Posting of provisional results – 13/04/2023.
Prior hearing – 14 to 28/04/2023.
Posting of final results – 04/05/2023.
Complaints submission – 05 to 26/05/2023.
Publication of complaints decision – 31/05/2023.
Enrolment and registration – 05 to 12/06/2023.
Places: 20
(N. min. of students - 10)
Fee
¤300 (+ ¤2 Student Insurance)
Scholarships
Regulation for the Attribution of Incentive Scholarships for the (Re)qualification and Updating of Skills in the Scope of Non-Degree-Granting Training at the University of Porto, under the «Impulso Adultos» Program of the PRR: see Regulation no. 634/2022, published in Diário da República on 13th July.
- Number (maximum) of scholarships | 15 individual scholarships for students enrolled in the programme.
- Pecuniary value of the individual scholarships | ¤240 for each scholarship.
- Notice: Call for Applications to Scholardship.
- Scholarship Applications Form.
Data Protection
In addition to the regular purposes of using your data by the U.Porto, related to the selection and ranking of applications and, later, with the academic management of the selected candidates, we inform you that, given the framework of this training within the scope of the «Program U.Porto Multidisciplinary Training – Impulso Jovens STEAM & Impulso Adultos» (PRR), the identification of all participants (name, NIF and contact details) must be communicated to Direção-Geral do Ensino Superior for the purpose of monitoring the execution of the project . Any questions about the processing of your data can be addressed to the Data Protection Officer of the U.Porto, to dpo@reit.up.pt.»
This edition of the course "Competition Challenges in the New Digital Economy" is financed by funds from the «Next Generation EU» programme of the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR), through the «Programa de Formação Multidisciplinar da U.Porto – Impulso Jovens STEAM & Impulso Adultos».
Contacts
Academic Servicessa_dout@fep.up.pt
General information
| Teacher Responsible: | Helder Vasconcelos |
| Acronym: | UFC-DCNE |
| Type of course/cycle of study: | Continuing Training Unit |
| Start: | 2022/2023 |
| Duration: | 21 Hour |
Study Plan
Certificates
- Competition Challenges in the New Digital Economy (3 ECTS credits)
Predominant Scientific Areas
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