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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.
5th edition of the multi-campus course “The Future of Europe”
This fall sees the return of CIVICA’s flagship multi-campus course “The Future of Europe”, currently in its 5th edition. The course 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, Economic and Security shocks” with Christine Reh (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 450 master’s students across the CIVICA alliance have benefitted from this cross-border interdisciplinary experience over the past four years.
2nd edition of the multi-campus course “The Road to the Green Transition”
A new multicampus course, “The Road to the Green Transition”, was launched in spring 2025, and will have its second edition next semester.
The course critically explores the main policy challenges in achieving “net zero” greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, as called for in the Paris Agreement. Special emphasis is placed on the role of economic policy, the role of the private sector (including through environmentally conscious investment strategies), and the multi-level politics behind the green transition.
The course is designed and taught jointly by a team of professors from the different CIVICA partners and is delivered synchronously across all CIVICA campuses as a series of live online lectures, integrated with local activities. On top of lectures, the course spurs students to work in teams across countries and disciplines, with the aim of achieving a final capstone project assignment (production of a podcast) related to climate policy challenges.
You can already listen to the student podcasts produced for the 1rst edition.
Two returning joint courses on the history of globalisation and policy evaluation
Two returning CIVICA joint courses throughout this academic year will include:
- “Policy Evaluation: Praxis and Politics” (Fall 2025), taught by Anne Revillard (Director of Sciences Po’s Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policy), Thilo Bodenstein (Central European University, Austria and Hungary), 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 2026), taught jointly by Mario Del Pero (a professor at Sciences Po’s Centre for History) and Andrea Colli (Bocconi University, Italy). This course examines the process of global integration and disintegration over the last two centuries.
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.