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THE GVCs IN CENTRAL EUROPE – A PERSPECTIVE
OF AUTOMOTIVE SECTOR AFTER COVID-19

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.

The V4 countries

The V4 countries are highly integrated with global value chains (GVCs); their backward participation decisively exceeds the forward one. They are mostly involved in activities generating low value added and faced with long-term stagnation in creating value. This especially concerns automotive industries. In order to alter the current status quo and gain benefits from participation in GVCs, it is necessary for theV4 to foster innovation abilities and stabilize business climate. The outbreak of COVID-19 posed both threats (disruption in production processes, demand shocks) and opportunities (re-definition of MNEs policies on FDI localization) that need to be investigated.

Conference and Case studies

CONFERENCE JUNE 8, 2022 BUDAPEST

Conference GVCs in Central Europe - a Perspective of the Automotive Sector after COVID-19 was held in Budapest, June 8, 2022.

Please see the detailed program and download the presentations from the conference.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Conference November 14-25, 2022, Budapest. Read more

Conference May 18-19, 2023, Praha. Read more

NEW CASE STUDIES

There are ten new case studies available providing new information on product and process innovation, disruptions of the supply chains, and effects of COVID-19 on the automotive industry. Read more

See the newest case study by Paweł Folfas, Andżelika Kuźnar, and Eliza Przeździecka: Can Chinese intermediaries be crowded out by the components produced in Poland and other Visegrad countries? Read more