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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



Sergei Guriev on Spin Dictators and Populism

On January 9, Professor Sergei Guriev will present “Economics of Populism and Hybrid Regimes” hosted by Central European…

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From the EUI to Sciences Po with CIVICA Research: towards a global history of capitalism

Télio Cravo is investigating the complex interplay between global mining, gold standards, and slavery. His research, and…

Research and innovation

Accelerating innovation: Smart Cities International Conference at SNSPA

The Faculty of Public Administration, SNSPA, organised on 8 and 9 December 2022 the 10th edition of the Smart Cities…

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CEU-Led CIVICA Research Project “Welfare, Democracy, and Populism Under the COVID-19 Crisis” Presents Work at EUI

WELDECO is a collaborative research project of CIVICA Members: CEU, Bocconi, EUI and LSE

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CIVICA Doctoral Conference: Spotlight on the 2022 edition hosted by SSE

The Stockholm School of Economics hosted the CIVICA Doctoral Conference from 30 November to 2 December 2022. The…

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Preliminary results of the SILAW project presented at the International Conference on Peace and Conflict Management in Oxford

The team of the research project “When the Law is Silent: Hate Crime Prosecution and Implicit Bias in Law Enforcement…

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How do we develop integrated solutions for environmental crises? Reflections from the last CIVICA Research Hackathon

The LSE Data Science Institute hosted a research hackathon in November 2022 that provided participants with the chance…

Student involvement

SGH leads the first meeting of the third cohort of CIVICA Ambassadors

The role of SGH Warsaw School of Economics in the current phase of the CIVICA alliance is to build an engaged student…

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Beyond current indicators of democracy: Outcomes from the CIVICA Research Hackathon

Written by Kamil Jonski, a participant of the Research Hackathon on “Democracy in the 21st century” and a graduate of…