2023 EUROPEAN STUDIESPROGRAMMEEUROPEAN AFFAIRSPROGRAMME
Sciences Po
20th February -17th March 2023

I. SCIENCES PO AT A GLANCE
Since its creation in 1871,
Sciences Po has been
France’s preeminent
university for the social
sciences. Its alumni include a
Secretary General of theUnited Nations, four Managing
Directors of the International
Monetary Fund, numerous
corporate leaders and five ofthe last seven President of theRepublic, including EmmanuelMacron.
Sciences Po has long outgrown its French roots, and is open to the world. Today, some
50% of our 15,000 students are international, from 150 countries. The education weoffer is emphatically outward looking. We seek to provide students with the essential toolsthat will enable them to make sense of a complex world. Our goal is to open minds anddevelop critical thinking.
Sciences Po’s aim is to offer a multidisciplinary higher education based on the teachingof a range of social and human sciences (history, economics, law, political science andsociology) and oriented towards action and assuming responsibility. Sciences Po’steaching, research, documentation and publications have made it a unique institution inhigher education landscape in France and particularly competitive on the internationalscene.
The Paris campus is located in the heart of Paris, close to the political centres of powerand cultural attractions. It is composed of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century buildings
and its neighbours include ministries, embassies, corporate headquarters, publishinghouses, the Assemblée nationale - in short, many centres of French decision-making.

✓ 15 000 students✓ 50% of international students, 150 nationalities✓ 480 partner universities✓ 7 undergraduate campuses✓ 63 dual degree programmes✓ Sciences Po is 3rd In the 2023 QS rankings for politics andinternational studies

II. COURSE SUMMARY▪

SOCIAL SCIENCES COURSE – 36 TEACHING HOURS

This course offers students an introduction on the European integration process andthe European Union via an interdisciplinary approach that brings together experts inthe fields of law, political science, sociology, and economics. The course is structured
around three themes covering the main aspects of the European integration process.
It will allow participants with no prior knowledge about the European Union or its
mechanisms to develop a fine-tuned understanding of its institutions and policies, butalso of the main challenges it faces today and future opportunities. For three weeks, ateam of seven Sciences Po professors and lecturers will provide students with the key
concepts that they need to understand the EU. Moreover, as classes are designed to beheld in an interactive environment, students will have the possibility to engage infruitful discussions with experts in their respective fields. In the last part of course, after
having acquired the fundamentals, the participants will explore main issues at the centreof the debate in today’s Europe and will have to opportunity to go beyond a simple
introduction to the EU, deepening their understanding of both the European integration
process and European societies.

Please note that the course structure may be subject to changes. A detailed program andschedule will be sent to the participants later on.

•FRENCH LANGUAGE COURSE – 8 TEACHING HOURSThe French language courses are comprised of 4 courses of 2 hours each and offered at
two levels. Participation is not mandatory. Students confirming enrolment in these classes
are requested to attend all of them.

Academic Advisor for the Programme
Matteo Cavallaro is a sociologist studying the interactions between
economic policy and the political system within the EU. He holds a PhD in
economics and sociology from Paris 13 University and published invarious academic journals in both English and French (European Union
Politics, Political Psychology, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Revue Française
de Science Politique). He is currently working as senior researcher at theUniversity of Lausanne and teaching Economics of European Integration
at Sciences Po.
He is also senior partner at Quorum S.a.S, an Italian pollster specialised inpublic opinion research, where he project-manages survey analyses and2
quantitative research projects.

III. ORGANISATION OF THE COURSE
THEME 1

What is the EU: History and Institutions

The objective of this section is to provide students with the key concepts
necessary to understand the EU. Classes will revolve around three main pillars.
First, students will be introduced to the process of European integration from anhistorical perspective in order to understand how the EU came to be. In thesecond pillar, students will shift their focus to present-day and will be presentedwith both European institutions and the EU political system. Lastly, participants will
study the economic governance of the European Union and the economic
challenges that the previous (and possibly next) economic crisis posed to its
functioning. All classes will also tackle how the last important crises (the GreatRecession, COVID-19 pandemics, and the war in Ukraine) are reshaping the EU
institutions.

•History and Politics of the EU

Course description
The course will be divided in two parts. In the first part, we will focus on the history ofEuropean integration from the end of World War II until today. In the second part, wewill tackle the institutional framework and political dynamics of the European Union
today.

Professor’s biography
Natasha Wunsch is Assistant Professor in Political Science/EuropeanIntegration at Sciences Po, Centre for European Studies and ComparativePolitics (CEE). She is also Senior Researcher at ETH Zurich and a memberof the Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group. Prior to joining the CEE,
Natasha was an ETH Postdoctoral Fellow with the European Politics Groupat ETH Zurich (2017-2019) and an Ernst Mach Postdoctoral Fellow at theCentre for South-East European Studies at the University of Graz (20162017). She holds a PhD in Political Science from University College London.

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•The European Economic Governance

Course description
The scope of the course is to familiarize the students with the economic
governance of the European Union, and with the challenges faced by member
states. In particular, the class will focus on the theoretical developments leading
to today’s institutional architecture, including the macroeconomic governance ofthe EU. We will see how the sovereign debt crisis and the Covid pandemics
have triggered a debate on EU institutions' reform.

Professor’s biography
Francesco Saraceno holds PhDs in economics from Columbia University andthe University of Rome. He worked two years as a senior economist for theItalian Prime Minister office, before joining Sciences Po-OFCE (observatoirefrançais des conjonctures économiques) as deputy department director, where
he deals with macroeconomics and the European economy. He is ILO
consultant on macroeconomic policies for employment. He teaches at Sciences
Po and LUISS University in Rome and regularly teaches at Executive Trainings
programs for the IMF and the ILO.

THEME 2The European Union and the WorldThis section focuses on the role of the EU in the world and it covers different aspects
ranging from its Foreign policy to how the EU and Member States deal with migration
flows. In the first part, classes will cover the institutional architecture of the EU
external actions and the main issues that the EU faces as a global actor. An
important part is then dedicated to European Defence policy and the way the current
war in Ukraine might reshape EU military strategy as well as its relationships with theother major global actors. The second part is dedicated to EU migration policy andhow migrations are both shaped and shaping the process of European integration.

•EU Foreign and Defence Policy

Course description
Migration crisis, China’s rise, jihadist terrorist attacks, Covid-19, climate change, war
in Ukraine: the European Union and its member states are facing global challenges
that go beyond its borders. The European political game can no longer be thought of
only within the European Union as it was in the 20th century.

4This course aims to present the diplomatic and military strategies and instruments
developed by the European Union to face the political challenges of the 21stcentury. The strengths, weaknesses and geopolitical challenges of the European
Union will be discussed.

Professor’s biography
Samuel B.H. Faure is Associate Professor of Political Science at Sciences
Po Saint-Germain-en-Laye and Research Associate at the CNRS
Printemps Research Center (Université Paris-Saclay). He is currently a
Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford (St Antony's College and Maison
française d'Oxford). He specializes in EU foreign and defence policy andhis research focuses on the challenge of Europe's strategic autonomy.
Sam holds a PhD in international relations from Sciences Po.

•The EU and Migration: an Introduction

Course descriptionThis course is designed to help students address the new challenges related to themanagement of immigration in Europe (such as border control, integration policies,refugee resettlement, civil liberties and human rights) and to introduce various policy
analyses which are currently debated at national, European and regional levels. In
particular, we will analyse the ways in which a) immigration has been securitized;b) national interests have influenced immigration policies as well as the reciprocal
impact on migrant mobilization.

Professor’s biography
Professor Ariane Chebel d’Appollonia, educated at Sciences Po (PhD,HDR), is Professor at Rutgers University (New Jersey, USA) and Sciences
Po (Paris and Reims). Her research focuses (from a comparativeperspective, USA/Europe) on the politics of immigration and antidiscrimination, security issues, racism and xenophobia,
immigrantintegration, and urban racism. She also works on migrant and asylum
European policies and is currently working on ethno-racial violence in theUS and Europe.

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Main Issues in Contemporary Europe

In the final section, students will deepen their knowledge and debate three global
issues, from a European perspective. First, students will focus on the rise ofpopulism and racism from a comparative perspective, discussing both theconcepts and empirical case studies. Classes will then move their focus to deal
with gender inequalities and discriminations in the European labour market andthe role that gender played and plays in structuring European welfare systems.
Finally, students will be presented with the state-of-the-art of the EU climatechange agenda, a topic made even more relevant by the current tensions on theenergy market, tackling both internal and external elements of the EU action on
this issue.

•Populism and Racism in Europe

Course description
Radical right populism has been spreading in Europe and over the world, and in its
wake racist and xenophobic sentiments. The objective of this course is to define
and explain these two different but interrelated, phenomena, racism and populism,
and the challenge they represent for democracy, with a focus on France and theEU countries.

Professor’s biography
Nonna Mayer is a CNRS Research Director Emerita at Sciences Po (CEE)and former chair of the French Political Science Association. Her main
research topics are political attitudes and behaviour, rightwing extremism,racism and anti-Semitism. She co-edits the annual report on racism of theNational Consultative Commission for Human Rights.

•Gendering the European Welfare States

Course description
All European labour markets are characterized by sex, gender inequalities anddiscriminations. Some countries perform better than others in tackling these typesof inequalities. This course focuses on the reconfiguration and the persistence ofsex inequalities.

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The common thread of this course is bringing to light the interaction with the Welfarestate, the market and the family. The historical approach of gender regimes in
Europe will provide background for explaining the different outcomes observed inEurope regarding gender equality

Professor’s biography
Hélène Périvier is an Economist at Sciences Po-OFCE (observatoire françaisdes conjonctures économiques). She is the director of the research andacademic program on gender studies at Sciences Po, PRESAGE. She hascoordinated the European project EGERA, Effective Gender Equality in
Research and the Academia (2014-2017). Her research focuses mainly onsocial and family policies and gender inequalities in the labor market, anddiscrimination. She has published a book L'économie féministe, at The
Presses de Sciences Po, 2020, and recent papers on different topics : such asmeasuring the child penalty for mothers, assessing the gender impact ofparental leave in France, and measuring discrimination and inequalities inhigher education.

•Fighting Climate Change: a European Perspective

Course description
In 50 years, climate change turned from an object of research for a few scholars
in atmospheric physics to a widely recognized political and juridical object. This
course will focus on the construction of a policy on climate change in theEuropean Union. The course will give an overview of the external relations ofthe EU in the field and of some of its internal policies, giving particularimportance to the EU Emission Trading System.

Professor’s biography
Eleonora Russo, is Lecturer of European Law, Director of the Master ofEuropean Affairs and Assistant Director of the School of Public Affairs atSciences Po. Her researches focus on EU climate change law. She worked
for several years as legal avisor for Italian and French Law firms. She is Doctorof Laws by the Law Faculty of Panthéon-Assas (Paris 2), where she worked
under the direction of Professor Jacqueline Dutheil de la Rochère.

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IV. REQUIREMENTS FOR COURSE VALIDATION
Students’ grades will be based on two components:•A first test will be held at the end of the second week in the form a multiplechoice exam on the fundamental concepts tackled during weeks 1 and 2.

•A final test is scheduled for the end of the third week and will consist of two
open-ended questions.

V. DISCOVER PARIS AND FRENCH CULTURE
While studying at Sciences Po, you will beexposed to the strong cultural flavour of
the Saint Germain district: renowned cafés
sheltering a new generation ofphilosophers, art galleries and architecture,
shops and cinemas, and restaurants.
World-class historical and cultural
attractions (the Louvre, Notre Dame,
Musée d’Orsay, the Sorbonne, the National
Museum of the Middle Ages-Cluny) arewithin walking distance.

During the programme, students will be
invited to participate in guided visits at
the louvre museum, the Versailles
Castle as well as in a boat tour on theSeine river.

VI. STUDYTRIPTOBRUSSELS

Brussels is the political heart ofEurope. During this one day-trip,explore the important seat ofEuropean power and become morefamiliar with the structures of theEU and the critical questions
pertaining to its future role.
Your visit in Brussels will include
two important EU institutions :the European Parliament and theEuropean Commission.

VII. The EU Affairs Programme in a nutshell

Gain knowledge on key
concepts to understandthe EU with 7 renowned
Sciences Po professors

Take part in a
Study trip toBrussels

Discover Paris andFrench language &culture
Introduction to Frenchlanguage and access tomany cultural activities

Get accompanied bya mentor to answer
questions outside ofclass and by aSciences Po liaison
officer for your dayto-day life in Paris

Accommodation
secured by SciencesPo

Get access to Sciences
Po’s resources (library,e-learning platforms)

4-week programme inFebruary - March 2023
20/02 – 17/03
20 students from 3 top
Japanese universities•Sciences Po welcomes students on
campus in a safe learning
environment. Sciences Po respects all
public health regulations for higher
education institutions. You can find more
information about health regulations
currently in force at Sciences Po on
our Covid-19 FAQ.

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2600 € (includes tuition fees,study trip to Brussels & 3 culturalactivities)
1600-1900 € estimate foraccommodation fees (27nights) - to be further confirmed
Not included in both abovementioned amounts: meals,
flight tickets, health insurance andpublic transportation in Paris

VIII. Eligibility and application guidelines
Eligibility requirements•

To be enrolled in one of these 3 Japanese institutions : University of
Hokkaido, University of Tokyo, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies ;•To have a sufficient level of English (TOEFL IBT 87, IELTS 6, TOEIC740) ;•To have a background or a strong interest in Social Sciences: History,Economics, Sociology, International relations, Law.

Application – step by step
Attend the online webinar about theprogramme conducted by Sciences Po
The webinar will take place on
Monday 31st of October / 7pm (TokyoTime), To register, click here

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Submit your application to yourhome institution
Reach out to the International relations
office of your home institution andsubmit your application before the endof November

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Activate your Sciences Po’s email
address and attend a pre-arrival
webinar
In January, the Sciences Po liaison.
officer will be conducting a webinar
dedicated to helping you prepare
your stay in Paris.

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Register on Sciences Po’sportal.
Successful applicants will be required toupload a few documents on Sciences
Po’s application portal and to pay thetuition fees (before 15/12)

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Key contacts :•Any questions about the application process? Contact the international relations officeof your home institution.
Petal Diagram Template• For any other matters (academic programme, fees, accommodation, practicalinformation about Paris etc.), please reach out to the Summer School & Short
Courses team: summer.school@sciencespo.fr