The graduate course on the ‘Future of Europe’ is the first Europeanship Multi-Campus course, one of the flagship initiatives of the CIVICA project, an alliance of ten leading European higher education institutions in social sciences. The course critically explores the main European policy challenges and is designed and taught jointly by a team of professors from the different partners of the alliance. The course will be delivered synchronously across all the campuses of the CIVICA consortium as a series of live on-line 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 completing a final capstone project assignment related to specific and concrete policy challenges.
Participating students from the Hertie School will also attend weekly in-person labs taught by a Teaching Assistant, where they will discuss the contents of the lectures. Please note that the Session 7 Policy Paper Training Camp deviates from the regular scheduled day/time.
Main learning objectives:
While experiencing the unique opportunity of having direct interaction with some of the top scholars on policy areas across different countries and institutions, at the end of the course students will be able to:
1. Outline and critically appraise challenging areas of policy-making facing the European Union in the coming years
2. Apply key concepts and insights from the relevant theoretical literatures to the investigation of contemporary European policy challenges.
3. Explain and evaluate the dynamics which characterize European Union policy responses with a particular focus on responses in times of crisis
4. Identify and analyze the main economic, political and societal challenges posed by globalization, climate change, the digital transition and consider the evolution of the political systems within the European Union in response to these challenges
5. Working in groups, develop and propose in written and oral form evidence-based policy solutions to EU-relevant policy problems
*CIVICA – The European University of Social Sciences brings together ten leading European higher education institutions in the social sciences. CIVICA aims to build an inter-university campus that provides joint and long-lasting opportunities in teaching, research and innovative learning, while enhancing academic excellence and facilitating civic engagement in Europe and beyond. CIVICA was selected by the European Commission as one of the pilot European Universities in 2019 and confirmed as successful alliance in 2022 for its full roll-out under the Erasmus+ programme.
Read more on www.civica.eu