• We are waiting for graduation papers on competition and consumer protection until 29 November 2024.
• You may submit master’s thesis or doctoral dissertation in Polish or English.
• You may win pecuniary prizes, the publication of your paper and in the master’s graduate competition - paid internship.

Are you a graduate from the faculty of law, economics, administration, management? Have you just defended your thesis or dissertation or are you going to do this soon? Apply now to take part in the competition of the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection!

- I am wholeheartedly encouraging you to take part in the competition for the best master’s thesis and doctoral dissertation! This is an opportunity to win pecuniary prizes, a publication as part of the UOKiK Library and a capacity to get to know the UOKiK’s backstage. For years, this has been the initiative for the best. Members of the Jury appreciate independent and innovative look at the competition and consumer protection issues. This year’s special edition merges the competition categories, that is, master’s theses and doctoral dissertations. I am looking forward to Polish or English papers – says Tomasz Chróstny, the President of UOKiK.

What, where, when?

A paper written in Polish or English and defended at a university in Poland on the following dates may be submitted for the competition:

• master’s thesis: 15 October 2023 — 15 October 2024
• doctoral dissertation: 15 October 2021 — 15 October 2024

Papers on competition protection should concern competition-restricting practices, concentration control, public aid and prevention of the abuse of superior bargaining power in the trade in agricultural products and foodstuffs. Papers on consumer protection, on the other hand, should concern practices infringing the collective consumer interests or abusive clauses in model contracts.

Competition entries containing a form, a copy of the paper, a one-page summary and a certificate issued by university authorities, confirming the date of the thesis defence and its topic, and for doctoral dissertations - two reviews, can be submitted via electronic mail, electronic inbox or a postal operator.

You have time until 29 November 2024.

Prizes

• Master’s theses: winners in each thematic area will receive PLN 7,000, PLN 5,000 and PLN 3,000, respectively, and will be invited to serve their paid internship at UOKiK.

Additionally, the participants can receive an award from the Polish Competition Law Association – PLN 5,000 in each thematic area.

• Doctoral dissertations: winners in each thematic area will receive PLN 10,000, PLN 7,000 and PLN 5,000, respectively.

The best papers will be published in the UOKiK Library.

Forms and by-laws are available at uokik.gov.pl/en/competitions. The partner of the competition is the Polish Competition Law Association, whereas its patron is the Polish Economic Society.