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FESSUD
Financialisation, Economy, Society & Sustainable Development
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      • WP1 – Management
      • WP2 – Comparative Perspectives on Financial Systems in the EU
      • WP3 – Causes & Consequences of the financial crisis
      • WP4 – Regulation of the financial sector
      • WP5 – Finance & Well-being
      • WP6 – Finance, development & Global governance
      • WP7 – Finance, environment & Sustainability
      • WP8 – Finance, real economy & the State
      • WP9 – Financial stability & Macroeconomic policies
      • WP10 – Dissemination & Impact
      • WP11 – Foresight
      • WP12 – Synthesis & Conclusions
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      • Final Conference 2016
      • Annual Conference 2015
      • Annual Conference 2014
      • Annual Conference 2013
      • Annual Conference 2012
    • Upcoming Events
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  • About
    • Who We Are
      • Work Package Leaders
      • Partners
      • Executive Board
      • Steering Committee
      • Coordinator Group
      • Advisory Groups
    • The project
    • Why is FESSUD important ?
    • Project governance structure
    • Flyer
    • Logo
    • Contact
    • Policy issues
  • News
  • Publications
    • Studies in Financial Systems
    • Working Papers Series
    • Briefing notes
    • Research briefs
    • Policy briefs
    • Papers in journals & Books
    • Infographics
    • Videos
    • Books
    • Newsletters
    • Glossary
    • Documents Manager
    • Documents Manager
  • Research Content
    • Working Packages
      • WP1 – Management
      • WP2 – Comparative Perspectives on Financial Systems in the EU
      • WP3 – Causes & Consequences of the financial crisis
      • WP4 – Regulation of the financial sector
      • WP5 – Finance & Well-being
      • WP6 – Finance, development & Global governance
      • WP7 – Finance, environment & Sustainability
      • WP8 – Finance, real economy & the State
      • WP9 – Financial stability & Macroeconomic policies
      • WP10 – Dissemination & Impact
      • WP11 – Foresight
      • WP12 – Synthesis & Conclusions
    • Research scheme
  • Events
    • Annual conferences
      • Final Conference 2016
      • Annual Conference 2015
      • Annual Conference 2014
      • Annual Conference 2013
      • Annual Conference 2012
    • Upcoming Events
    • Photo Galleries

FESSUD is a multidisciplinary, pluralistic project which aims to forge alliances across the social sciences, so as to understand how finance can better serve economic, social and environmental needs.

The Project

FESSUD brings together expertise from many leading universities to look afresh at how the financial system affects the world around us. We need to know what can be done to make the financial system work for society, the economy and the environment and not – as has sometimes been the case – the other way round.

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Why is FESSUD important ?

The Financialisation, Economy, Society and Sustainable Development (FESSUD) project explores the nature of the relationship between financialisation (the processes of the growth of the importance of financial systems, finance and financial motives) and the sustainability of the financial system, economic and…

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The Coordinator Group (CG)

The CG is made of Professor Malcolm Sawyer (Leeds University Business School, LUBS), Prof. Andrew Gouldson (ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy), Prof. Giuseppe Fontana (LUBS), Prof. David Spencer (LUBS), Dr. Andrew Brown (LUBS), a Project Manager – Ms Helen Evans,….

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Latest News

Horizon Magazine – Banks should be small and boring
10 January 2017
Cordis – Understanding how finance can better serve the economy, society and the environment
5 January 2017
Representation of the public interest in banking
5 January 2017
Future of Finance: Infographics
6 December 2016
A European Union Sustainable Banking Network
22 November 2016

FESSUD Newsletter

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PARTNERS
University of Leeds (UK, lead partner)
University of Siena (IT)
School of Oriental & African Studies (UK)
Fondation National de Sciences Politiques (FR)
Pour la Solidarité (BE)
Poznan School of Economics (PL)
Tallin University of Technology (EE)
Berlin School of Economics & Law (DE)
University of Coimbra (PT)
University of Pannonia (HU)
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (GR)
Middle East Technical University (TR)
Lund University (SE)
University of Witwatersrand (ZA
University of the Basque Country (ES)

KEY FACTS
Leeds University Business School
fessud@leeds.ac.uk
Project Number: 26680
FP7 Theme: SSH-2010-1.2-1
EU Contribution: 7,923,728.00
Start Date: 01/12/2011
End Date: 30/11/2016
Co-ordinator: Prof Malcolm Sawyer
EU Scientific officer : Domenico Rossetti di Valdalbero

EU FUNDING
This project has received funding from the European Union’s 7th Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 266800

The views expressed during the execution of the FESSUD project, in whatever form and or by whatever medium, are the sole responsibility of the authors.

The European Union is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.

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