Portraits

Libertad Sobrado started volunteering with non-profit organisations when she was at high school in Costa Rica. She has been involved in various initiatives to help improve living conditions for local populations through recycling, environmental protection and education. Libertad looks at her studies at Sciences Po as a way to further her engagement. The fourth in our series #FirstYearsScPo.

Alexander Stathopoulos comes from a mixed French and Greek background. As he starts his studies at Sciences Po, he is looking forward to meeting others with differing views in a context of free thinking and discussion. The third in our series #FirstYearsScPo.

Rémicard Sérème, Haitian born and admitted to Sciences Po through the Equal Opportunity and Diversity programme, is determined not to let anyone put her into a box or dictate her professional future. The second in our series #FirstYearsScPo.

Yanhua Chen was born in a small city in China. She has just started her first year on the Le Havre campus in the dual Bachelor’s degree between Sciences Po and Columbia University. She tells us about her reasons for choosing the Sciences Po campus in Le Havre, and shares her expectations and dreams. The first in our web series #FirstYearsScPo.

Sébastien Hubier is a lecturer in Modern Literature at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne and at Sciences Po, and associate researcher at the University of Dijon. We talked to him about the very popular courses he teaches on the Reims campus.

Espace Numérique is an association of Sciences Po students keen to promote digital culture. Their website is full of computer tips and articles about the Internet and social networks. We met two members of the association, Alexia Toulmet and Tom Bry-Chevalier.

Anne-Sophie Roux is a student in the Master of Political Science programme at the Sciences Po Doctoral School. She has decided to take a gap year to pursue a unique personal project: in July 2016, she is leaving on an extended humanitarian-focused trip with the aim of reporting on populations affected by climate change.

All students at the Sciences Po Undergraduate College spend their third undergraduate abroad, either doing an internship or studying at one of Sciences Po’s 470 partner universities. David, Margaux, Gabriele and Guillaume told us about their experiences abroad.

At Sciences Po, all Undergraduate College students spend their third year abroad on an internship or at a partner university. Marion Vonfeld made an unusual choice; after studying transatlantic relations on the Reims campus for two years, she decided to spend her third year at Universidad Icesi in Cali, a city in western Colombia.

Martina Smuclerova has taught Public International Law at Sciences Po since 2011. This Sorbonne-educated international legal expert and Czech diplomat has previously served as a delegate to the United Nations, the European Union and the European Space Agency.  We asked her about her course.

Pierre Sautreuil, a student at the Sciences Po School of Journalism, is doing his Master's through the dual education programme with an apprenticeship at Agence France Presse. He spent his gap year on the front lines in Ukraine with pro-Russian separatists. This experience of war reporting at 21 years old earned him the Prix Bayeux Calvados in the Young Reporter category in October 2015. Interview.

Claire Chabaud, a Master of Economics and Business student at Sciences Po, has just won first prize in the Bpifrance #PitchTonInno awards for students with her partner Anastasia Ruiz, a fashion design student at ESMOD. Thanks to the €30,000 FrenchTech grant this has earned them, the students' project for made-to-measure 3D-printed lingerie will be able to see the light of day. We talked to Claire.

Brice Leverdez, 30, is both a professional badminton player and a student in the Top Athletes programme at Sciences Po. He has already won eight French championship titles and twelve international tournaments and is currently in intensive preparation for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio. We caught up with him between two training sessions.

Lisa Lauton is a German student doing a Master of Public Policy at the Sciences Po School of Public Affairs. She talks about why she decided to come to Sciences Po and what she would like to do after graduating.

Colin Hay teaches a course on public policy at the Sciences Po School of Public Affairs, and political analysis at the University of Sheffield. He is also joint editor-in-chief of the journal Comparative European Politics. He presents his view of public affairs.

Yann Schreiber, graduate student at Sciences Po, has been awarded three prizes by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), the oldest organisation representing journalists in the US, for two reports he produced during his year abroad at the Ohio State University.

Leon Yuchin Lau, an undergraduate student at Sciences Po, has just been offered a contract to become a foreign service officer with the government of Singapore. While he originally intended to follow his undergraduate education with a Master's degree, Leon changed his plan and decided to enter the professional world.

Tara Heuzé, a student on the Sciences Po-Columbia dual Master's programme, launched an initiative to collect sanitary products for homeless women. The operation, dubbed "Règles élémentaires", helped raise awareness well beyond Sciences Po. Interview with a student who wants use the weapons of finance to change the world.

Alyette Tritsch, a student in first year of the Master of International Development at the Paris School of International Affairs at Sciences Po, initiated the Welcome Refugees project along with a group of students. Thanks to them, Sciences Po has welcomed a group of refugees in recent weeks to take courses in French and English. We asked her about this successful move to action.

An American student at the Sciences Po School of Public Affairs in the Master of Public Policy, Arsh Haque talks about his motivations for studying in France, his early days in Paris and everyday life on the Sciences Po campus.