Europe: 4 Transnational Courses Organised by CIVICA's 10 Universities

Sciences Po is a founding member of CIVICA - the European University of Social Sciences, created in March 2019. CIVICA brings together today ten leading European higher education institutions in the social sciences, humanities, business management and public policy, with a total of 72,000 students and 13,000 faculty members.

CIVICA has launched this academic year’s joint and multicampus courses for master's students, continuing the alliance’s work towards a true European campus. The courses are one of CIVICA’s many transnational experiences enabling students to pursue academic paths beyond any one institutional or national context.

4th edition of the multi-campus course “The Future of Europe”

This fall sees the return of the fourth edition of CIVICA’s flagship multi-campus course, “The Future of Europe”, which is taught jointly by a team of faculty from alliance universities, critically exploring European policy challenges.

In addition to a series of live online lectures grouped into four modules, students work in transnational teams to complete a capstone assignment developing policy solutions to EU-relevant policy problems.

Arancha González (Dean of Sciences Po's Paris School of International Affairs) is teaching the first module about “Globalisation and Economic shocks” with Johannes Lindner (Hertie School, Germany). 

Small teams of students from different universities work on finding a creative solution to a concrete ongoing problem. Excellent projects automatically participate in the Boroli Prize Competition (Bocconi University, Italy), which awards three prizes of 4,200 euros each, split evenly among the team members, to the teams with the best three capstone projects submitted in the course.

More than 370 master’s students across the CIVICA alliance have benefitted from this cross-border interdisciplinary experience over the past three years and a new multicampus course on “The Road to the Green Transition” will be launched in spring 2025.

3 returning joint courses on the history of globalisation, policy evaluation, and data science

Three returning CIVICA joint courses throughout this academic year will include:

• “Policy Evaluation: Praxis and Politics” (Fall 2024) is taught by Anne Revillard (Director of Sciences Po's Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policy), Thilo Bodenstein (Central European University, Austria and Hungary), Diane Stone and Gaia Taffoni (European University Institute, Intergovernmental). It will illuminate fundamentals of qualitative evaluations for public policy and cover the political preconditions for the implementation of evaluations.
• “The Making of the Present: A Global History of Globalisation from St. Helena to Davos” (Spring 2025) is taught jointly by Mario Del Pero (a professor at Sciences Po's Centre for History) and Andrea Colli (Bocconi University, Italy) and examines the process of global integration and disintegration over the last two centuries.
• “Diving into the Digital Public Space” (Spring 2025) with Jean Philippe Cointet (Sciences Po's médialab) and Marton Karsai (CEU, Austria and Hungary). The course covers the use of data science methods to investigate a research question related to social and political dynamics at large.

You can view the list of upcoming courses on my.CIVICA.eu with your Sciences Po's email and password. You can also subscribe to CIVICA's newsletter to stay informed.