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In the CIVICA alliance, we are collaborating across campuses and borders to foster a dialogue between the social sciences and society.

On this page, you can stay up to date with the latest developments in the alliance, peruse news from our joint research or teaching projects, read expert opinions on current events, and much more



Who Gets to Belong? Music, Identity, and Storytelling in Contemporary Europe

What does it mean to belong in contemporary Europe, and who gets to decide?

futurEU students at Hertie School

futurEU 2026: CIVICA students present innovative solutions for Europe's security and defence challenges

Students from across the CIVICA alliance gathered in Berlin for the futurEU 2026 finals, presenting innovative policy…

CIVICA Students at ESA 2026: Shaping Europe Through Student Participation

The ESA 2026 brought together students from across Europe at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Giulia Rebecca Conte…

Is the European Union Becoming a Supranational State?

In the latest edition of CIVICA Experts in the Spotlight, Sylvain Kahn explores a provocative question at the heart of…

Romania’s pro-European bloc faces a breaking point between unity and division

In this analysis, Antonia Colibasanu, lecturer at the National University of Political and Administrative Studies…

CIVICA multicampus course empowers students to shape Europe’s future policies

Students from across the CIVICA alliance collaborated in the multicampus course The Future of Europe to develop…

CIVICA Students unite to support people experiencing homelessness through the CareKit SEF iniative

Students from CEU, Sciences Po, and IE University worked together through CIVICA’s Student Engagement Fund to address…

Doing Open Social Science: Advancing Transparency, Reproducibility and Trust in Research

For all social scientists (qualitative and quantitative alike) making our research more open and re-usable is a key…

Europe’s 2026 Energy Crisis: How Geopolitics Is Reshaping the Green Transition

In this CIVICA Experts in the Spotlight piece, Professor Anil Duman examines how the 2026 energy shock triggered by…