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Sciences Po hosted a ceremony to honour Bruno Latour on 20 October. Watch the replay.

From 14 to 16 September, Sciences Po is organising several debates dedicated to examining all aspects of academic freedom. Register now!

Mathias Vicherat, President of Sciences Po, has appointed Sergeï Guriev as Provost. Professor Guriev will take office on 15 July 2022.

Laurence Bertrand Dorleac, Chair of the National Foundation of Political Science (FNSP) and Mathias Vicherat, President of Sciences Po have the great sadness to inform that Jean-Paul Fitoussi, Professor Emeritus at Sciences Po, former President of the OFCE, former Chairman of our Academic Board and former member and Vice President of our Board of Directors, passed away last night in his 79th year.

This year, Sciences Po was ranked third in the world for Politics and International Studies, just ahead of the London School of Economics and Political Studies, Princeton University, Stanford University, and the University of Cambridge.

A new research project - Pilot Network for Research Ethics and Data Management Training (PiNRED) - launched in the CIVICA framework, includes the participation of Kevin Arceneaux, a Sciences Po Professor in Polical Sciences, affiliated with the Center for Political Research (CEVIPOF).

An interview with Flavia CANESTRINI and Bastien CHARAUDEAU SANTOMAURO

Moritz Schularick, Professor of Economics at Sciences Po, was recently awarded the 2022 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, the most prestigious research award in Germany, bestowed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).

In the framework of the partnership between Sciences Po and the McCourt Institute established in June 2021 and devoted to the study, decryption and clarification of the major issues of the common good that are played out around new technologies, eight research projects have been selected by the Steering Committee.

Providing training in the social sciences, conducting and transferring high-level research, and participating in social debates are the missions to which our permanent faculty is dedicated. The twenty-three academics who are joining us this year are fully committed to these missions.

On 1 October, Sciences Po signed a partnership agreement with the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), under the aegis of France’s Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation. Read our interview with Beatrice Weder di Mauro, the centre’s president, and Philippe Martin, a professor within the Department of Economics at Sciences Po and the Centre’s vice-president.

Interviews by Alina Thiemann. Read all of the testimonies on the page of the School of Research. True to its goal of fostering more collaboration in academics across European universities, CIVICA enables doctoral fellows and researchers to exchange on ongoing research, team up for collaborative projects, and network with colleagues through various existing and upcoming joint initiatives and opportunities. Among these is the Early Stage Researcher (ESR) course catalogue, an online resource that brings together classes, workshops and seminars open to (post)doctoral researchers from across the alliance.

Through their analyses and new research projects, our researchers are responding today to the fundamental need to grasp the political, economic and social impacts of this pandemic in the short and long term.

Eleven projects have been selected for funding in CIVICA’s first call for collaborative research proposals, from a total of 27 applications. Open from 1 February to 23 March 2021, the call marked the launch of CIVICA Research, the alliance’s long-term research and innovation agenda. The aim of such research calls is to foster new, innovative research and deepen cooperation between CIVICA’s eight member universities.

Sciences Po remains a top university in the social sciences in the 2021 QS World University Rankings by subject. The institution ranked fourth domestically in Economics and moved from the sixth to the fourth place in History. In France, Sciences Po ranked first in Politics and International Studies, Social Policy and Administration, and Sociology.