LAC-EU - Understanding Latin American Challenges in the 21st Century

The project

MSCA-Doctoral Network LAC-EU will develop and promote a comprehensive, interdisciplinary and up-to-date framework to understand multi-level governance in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and the relations between LAC and the EU.

It is funded under the European Union’s Horizon Europe - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions - Doctoral Networks, for a 4-year period (February 2024 - January 2028).

Project objectives

The LAC-EU doctoral network research objective is to better understand LAC and its relationship with the EU, fostering respectful, non-Eurocentric research and engagement. It will enable a better understanding of current challenges in Latin American governance and support sustainable, equitable and successful relations between the EU and LAC.

LAC-EU is providing world-class, interdisciplinary research and training in social and political sciences, law, and the humanities, as well as research exchanges and policy-relevant secondments in the EU and LAC. Research themes include the rise of populism, democracy, gender rights, trade, migration, health, global cities, sustainability and green finance, and cultural studies.

The LAC-EU doctoral programme will thus provide PhD candidates a broad range of research-focused and transferable skills, and provide the EU with the vital inputs needed to design coherent, sustainable, equitable and comprehensive policies towards LAC.

Sciences Po will lead one of the 12 research projects, centred around the use of big data, algorithms, and AI by private and public organisations in the process of governments in LAC and EU national governments, states and major cities. 

Sciences Po team

• Patrick Le Galès, CNRS Research Professor, Sciences Po, CEE (Principal Investigator)
• Eleonora Russo, General Secretary, Sciences Po, CEE (Research Coordinator)
• Luca Venga, PhD Candidate

Partners

The project is coordinated by Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI, Spain), and involves as main partners Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), FLACSO-Argentina, Universitat de Barcelona (Spain), Sciences Po (France), University of Oslo (Norway) and University of York (UK). Associated partners include academic as well as civil society and policy institutions: Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain), Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB, Spain), Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Universidad de Chile, EU-LAC Foundation, Instituto Português de Relações Internacionais - Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Portugal), FLACSO-Ecuador, Université de Poitiers (France), and Democracia Abierta/Open Democracy. 

Find out more

• Project Website: www.lac-eu.network 
• LinkedIn Page: lac-eu-doctoral-network 
• X Account: @LACEUNetwork
• YouTube Channel: @LAC-EUDoctoralNetwork