SHORT DESCRIPTION
- Approach and Objectives
- Academic Program
- Organisational Framework
1. Approach and Objectives
Offer a complete immersion (learning and living) within a genuinely European community: 40 upper secondary education students from 20 different European countries will study and live together for ten days in a place of both high-level education and informal cultural exchange.
- Create links: Offer a platform to exchange and strengthen links between young Europeans
- Rouse curiosity: Allow students to understand the functioning both of the State and the European Union; Boost their capacity to conceive and reason according to the rationales of economy, EU policies and geopolitical contexts
- Open new horizons: Give students the methodological keys for university and broaden their view and intercultural flair for a life beyond boundaries
2. Academic Program
3 main classes built around the 3 questions: “Who moves the world?”, “What moves the world” and “The European Union: Why? How? What?”.
Tutorials to deepen topics of main classes Workshops on specific EU issues
AIM: give a comprehensive but basic insight into the political sciences, geopolitics, European studies etc. to allow students to conceive and look behind the backdrop of current political and economic processes. The altogether teaching approach shall encompass a European perspective, thus enabling the students to apprehend the complexity of inner-EU decision-making.
1) Who moves the world?
This course explains political systems, examines how European civil society works and gives an introduction to geopolitics. (ex. : Forms of state governance, History of political thought, Democracy – «the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time»?, Multiplication of borders: many states governed by few?, Conflicts: zones and reasons,The emergence and role of the United Nations)
2) What moves the world?
Understanding economics is understanding political movements. (ex. : Introduction to Micro- and Macroeconomics, Politics meet Economy: economic thinkers until today, Current issue: The financial crisis – origins and consequences)
3) The European Union: Why? How? What?
Understanding the purpose, the functioning and the current policies of the European Union. (ex. : From 6 to 27: a historic review of the European integration process, Europe united in variety: Reflection about European identity, The EU and the world: EU foreign policy from humanitarian help to defence)
3. Organisational Framework
- 3 Students at the Institut d‘Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po)
◦ Victoria VOLOSSOV (Master Affaires Européennes, Sciences Po-LSE 2011)
◦ Tina PYKA (Collège Universitaire/Bachelor 3)
◦ Marion SOURY (Master Affaires Européennes, Sciences Po-LSE 2011)
- 8 Professors (senior scholars and young academics) and Trainers
◦ From the best European Universities ◦ From EU institutions and NGOs
- Partner organisations in 20 European countries (providing the selected participants)
