European Week 2021

Are you drawn to social engagement?
Are you eager to work with international peers?
Do you like to learn through projects and interaction?
Do you think knowledge about how to manage one’s financial resources effectively is a public good to be shared equitably?

If you are a yes-person here, the CIVICA European Week is something for you.

Katarina Hägg, Vice President External Relations & International Affairs, Head of CIVICA at SSE, welcomes students to the European Week 2021

At a glance

The CIVICA European Week is both a stand-alone learning event and a central element of the CIVICA Engage Track, a newly launched bachelor experience open to eligible students at the four participating universities:

Bocconi University, Italy
Sciences Po, France
Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
The London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom

When & where?

The European Week 2021 takes place on 8-11 June and is hosted by the Stockholm School of Economics. The European Week will be a fully digital event. A "hybrid" format might be available for students based in Sweden only (depending on current health regulations).

Who?

Some 40 bachelor students from SSE, Bocconi, Sciences Po and LSE working together
8-10 partner organizations working with the dissemination of knowledge about household finances
High-school students from the Stockholm area
Expert lecturers from the participating universities, the financial industry and civil society

Students discuss outdoors, photo by Juliana Wiklund, SSE

Your learning experience

Four days of intense learning by working in teams of students with various expertise (all areas of specialisation are welcome)
Four days of fast-paced learning to understand and improve how partner organisations work to share basic financial knowledge, including which stakeholders they reach, the channels they use and the obstacles they encounter
All guided by team tutors as you learn the context, understand the issues, engage with stakeholders, and produce a deliverable
All done in a setting where you can meet socially with other students and the experts involved

Programme

Day -1: Orientation for tutors & secondary-school students
Day 1: Welcome, Lecture, Case presentations, Tutorials & group work, (D)mingle
Day 2: Group Work, Lecture, Tutorials, Lecture, Group work, Student-led evening
Day 3: Group work, Tutorials, (D)mingle, Group work
Day 4: Breakfast (D)mingle, Tutorials, Project presentations (or submissions), Debriefing sessions, Farewell
Day 5: Student-led social programme

Download the full programme here>>

Topic of European Week 2021: Practical household finance

No one doubts that reading and writing, the components of traditional literacy, should be available on equal terms to all if we are to have a fair and equitable society. This is a cornerstone of our commitment to public education.
What then about “financial literacy”? This was initially defined as “the ability to use knowledge and skills to manage one’s financial resources effectively for lifetime financial security.”
Research shows that knowledge on this topic is generally low, and especially low among people who have had limited education opportunity or people with low incomes.
The CIVICA European Week 2021 aims to raise students’ understanding of this social challenge and support Stockholm-based organizations’ work to address it.

Students wait in line, photo by Juliana Wiklund, SSE

Expert lecturers

Marieke Bos is an economist (Docent) and Deputy Director at the Swedish House of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics. She also holds a visiting scholar position at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Consumer Finance Institute. Marieke has been a board member of the Swedish Pensions Agency and a visiting scholar at the Central Bank of Sweden. Furthermore, she has worked as a consultant for the Swedish (FI) and UK (FCA) Financial Regulator on topics within consumer protection and consumer credit repayments.

Marieke has won the 2019 Michael J. Brennan Best Paper Award for her paper with Emily Breza and Andres Liberman, ”The Labor Market Effects of Credit Market Information” in the Review of Financial Studies, and the 2017 Hans Dalborg award for excellence in Financial Economic Research. She also obtained research grants from Nasdaq foundation, FORTE, the Swedish Innovation Agency (VINNOVA), NBER, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Russel Sage Foundation, the Swedish Bank Research Foundation and the Filene Research Institute. Marieke’s research focuses mainly on individuals’ decision-making within the field of Household Finance and Empirical Banking. She is a member of AFFECT, a committee of the American Finance Association, to promote the advancement of women academics in the field of finance.

Anders Anderson is a Research Fellow and Senior Advisor to the Swedish House of Finance. He obtained his doctoral degree in 2004 at the Stockholm School of Economics. He held post-doctoral positions at the Institute for Financial Research (SIFR) and the University of Mannheim before being appointed Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at the Stockholm University in 2006. In 2009, he returned to SIFR as Deputy Director. He was Director of the Swedish House of Finance between 2014 and 2021, and has been teaching the course Behavioral Finance at the SSE Master program since 2011. Andersons’s research is mainly focused on behavioral and consumer finance, but also include the trading behavior of individual and institutional investors. His research has been published in some of the world’s leading finance journals that has rendered him the 2016 AFBC Black Rock Best Paper Award and the 2018 GFLEC Financial Literacy Research Award.

Diogo Mendes is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics. He is a research affiliate at the Swedish House of Finance and Misum – Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets. His research interests are corporate finance, financial economics, and development economics.

Reasons for you to participate

highlight your commitment to civic issues
do good together with fellow students from all over Europe
have access to some of the best teaching institutions in Europe
engage in field work, coaching, guest lectures, group work, experience sharing and creative events

More information about the European Week

Please contact your home university for more information about the European Week.

Bocconi University: civica[at]unibocconi.it
Sciences Po: civicaengagebachelortrack[at]sciencespo.fr
SSE: civica[at]hhs.se
LSE: global[at]lse.ac.uk

^{Photos: Juliana Wiklund, SSE}

Go back to the CIVICA European Week page >>

Go back to the CIVICA Engage Track page >>

10-02-2022 Sciences Po

“An indelible mark on my student experience”: Spotlight on the CIVICA Engage course

In Sciences Po’s Engage course, students participate in an innovative independent project that uses field experience as a pedagogical tool.

08-07-2021 Sciences Po

Bachelor students from all over Europe team up for first ever CIVICA European Week

Léa Fournier and Marco Gerbino, bachelor students at Sciences Po, recount their experiences of the CIVICA European Week in June 2021.

06-07-2021 LSE

CIVICA European Week – An LSE student’s perspective

Ronit Anand, bachelor's student at LSE, discusses the best bits and benefits of CIVICA’s European Week in June 2021.

Screenshot CIVICA European Week online mingle

01-07-2021 SSE

European collaboration success for CIVICA

In June, 40 undergraduate students from CIVICA members took part in the first edition of the CIVICA European Week, organised by SSE.

24-06-2021 Bocconi University

The CIVICA European Week: a diverse environment “where everyone could learn from others”

Two students from Bocconi University talk about their experience of the CIVICA European Week and this year’s topic of financial literacy.

22-03-2021 SSE

Financial Literacy highlighted during the CIVICA European Week

SSE faculty Thomas Lavelle talks about the theme and approach to learning of the CIVICA European Week 2021.

Students at the Stockholm School of Economics, Photo: Juliana Wiklund

26-02-2021 SSE

CIVICA European Week 2021 in Stockholm

The CIVICA European Week is both a stand-alone learning event and a central element of the CIVICA Engage Track, and will be taking place for the first time in Stockholm in June.

13-04-2021 LSE

Dilly Fung: CIVICA Engage is an opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others

LSE’s Pro-Director for Education explains how the CIVICA Engage Track connects civic responsibility with learning and inspires students to create societal change.

25-03-2021 LSE

Maximise the real-world potential of your studies: civic engagement through CIVICA

LSE's Rhydian Cleaver, BSc Politics (3rd year), explains how civic engagement experience can boost students' future prospects whilst doing something meaningful for the world, and why the CIVICA Engage Track is a golden opportunity to develop civic engagement skills.

SSE students interacting in the city, credit SSE

22-09-2020 SSE

Be a part of the solution to the challenges facing Europe

Starting this academic year, bachelor students can channel their civic engagement and help effect real change through a new interdisciplinary program. The CIVICA Engage track will offer field work, exchanges and new experiences to students across the CIVICA alliance.

Hilda Hardell SSE, Photo by Alva Jonevret

26-08-2020 SSE

Building bridges and broadening horizons through student involvement

Now that the European Universities are becoming a reality, it is important to give the students a say. Hilda Hardell from the Stockholm School of Economics is helping to bring student influence to the top levels of CIVICA – and the EU.

Notice

Video, photos and audio will be recorded during the entire event and made available, partly or in full, on the channels of CIVICA, its member institutions, and partners. By joining the event, you automatically consent to the recording. If you do not consent to being recorded, please discuss your concerns with the event's host at civica(at)hhs.se. Please also visit https://www.hhs.se/gdpr for more information.