About Us:

ACRN U. Center for Research Methodology Austria, Cambridge UK,
an academic joint venture of four European Universities and Business Schools
in the field of social and managerial sciences.




Our fields of operation:

  • Doctoral Courses and Symposia on Research Methodology
  • Certificates and Diploma courses for advanced research Master (MPhil, MRes.) and PhD candidates
  • Doctoral Schools and Conferences on Social and Strategic Entrepreneurship
  • Doctoral Schools on Sustainable Finance and Investment
  • Advances and Publication on Research Methodology
  • Interdisciplinary research coordination in the fields of social and managerial sciences within the EU framework
  • Researcher, lectors and doctoral supervisor exchange programs
  • Digital publication of scientific journals, monographs, books and conference proceedings
  • Service advisory on the EU framework for research FP7.

We are a community inclusion social enterprise for higher education (not for profit), all excess funds are used for the further development of the programs, as well as for grants and scholarships for a broad inclusion of participants.
We embrace heterogeneity and inter-disciplinarity in our docents, students and research community!

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The 13th FRAP - Finance, Risk and Accounting Perspectives conference
… will take place at the University of Cambridge College - Hughes Hall from 18. - 20. November 2013

Motto: Innovation, Information and Intelligence in Finance, Risk and Accounting
with special workshops, perspectives and panels on : Social Finance and Crowdfunding as well as Enterprise Risk Management

Where: Cambridge University - Hughes Hall College, United Kingdom
When: 18. – 20. November 2013
Fee: EUR 430,- / GBP 350,- / USD 560,- (including social side program and lunch)
One-page proposal due: April 20th, full paper, August 1st.




Scientific Board:

Dr. Juha Kansikas,
Professor of Entrepreneurship
School of Business and Economics
University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Dr. Elisabeth Menschl
Senior Lecturer in Research Philosophy
Johannes Kepler Universität Linz

Prof. Alex Murdock
Professor of Third Sector Research
London South Bank University, UK

Dr. Matthew Haigh
Senior Lecturer,
SOAS, School of Oriental and African Studies
University of London, UK

Dr. Heimo Losbichler
Professor of Finance, Department Leader,
Faculty of Management,
University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria

Dr. Wolfgang Hable
Lecturer in Politics and Public Management
University of Vienna, Austria
and Vice Dept. Leader, OÖ Gebietskrankenkasse

Dr. Shambu Prasad
Professor in Rural Management and Development
Xavier Institute of Management
Bhubaneswar - India

Mira Übleis, BSc.
Students Representative
European School of Economics, UK

Dr. Pascal Dey
Senior Lecturer in Sociology
University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

Dr. Michael Roither
Department Leader,
Center for Journalism and Communication
Danube University Krems, Austria and University of Salzburg, Austria

Dr. Alena Hanzelkova
Head of PhD. program
Brno International Business School
Czech Republic