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On 12th March, Elena Emrick-Schmitz<\/strong> successfully defended her PhD thesis on \u201cThe Diversity of Community Economies\u2019 Financing Practices in Support of Post-Growth<\/strong>\u201d (supervisor <\/a>Christian Schulz).

Many thanks to our external jury members <\/a>Julia Affolderbach and <\/a>Franz Fl\u00f6gel as well as to <\/a>Sabine D\u00f6rry, Co-PI of the CORE-AltFin project altfin.uni.lu<\/a>.
Many thanks to the FNR for its generous funding of this research. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations, Elena! <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":24561,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_image_focal_point":[],"show_featured_caption":false,"ulux_newsletter_groups":"","uluxPostTitle":"","uluxPrePostTitle":"","_trash_the_other_posts":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false},"news-category":[7,4],"news-topic":[15],"organisation":[149,147],"authorship":[127],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nPhD thesis successfully defended - 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