The project is co-financed by the Governments of Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from International Visegrad Fund. The mission of the fund is to advance ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe.
Joanna Smoluk-Sikorska PhD, graduated from the University of Economics and Business in Poznań in the field of Economics, specializing in economic journalism and public relations. She obtained a master’s degree in 2003. Afterward, she joined the University of Life Sciences in Poznań, starting doctoral studies. In 2009, she received a Ph.D. degree in Economics from the Faculty of Economics at the West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin.
Her scientific interests include the organic food market, with particular emphasis on the distribution channels of organic food products, their prices, and consumption of organic food. Another area of her research is the globalization processes in the beer market. She authored and co-authored over 60 scientific publications in Polish and English, including two monographs. Since 2017, she has been an external expert of the European Commission as an evaluator of the proposals submitted to the Research Executive Agency.