Innovative offers for master's education

CIVICA brings together 72,000 students & PhDs and 13,000 academic staff from ten world-renowned higher education institutions across Europe. The alliance is working towards a true European campus that is both physically and digitally connected.

At master's level, CIVICA members are building on existing, successful programmes to design the future of master's education in the social sciences. An increasing number of students from the alliance will be able to benefit from innovative formats such as joint master's courses, the Europeanship multicampus course, and a European Policy Lab.

Students at Sciences Po and at the Hertie School engage in online activities

Joint master's courses

In CIVICA's jointly taught courses at master's level, students can benefit from the perspective of faculty and peers at two different member universities.

Students at Bocconi University engaged in academic work

The future of Europe - Europeanship multicampus course

Having started its second edition in fall 2022, this CIVICA flagship initiative spurs master's students to work in transnational teams on a EU policy challenge.

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CIVICA Policy Labs

This innovative challenge-based educational model involving external partners in shaping students’ learning process in a truly pan-European setting is a way to expand knowledge and best practices beyond the boundaries of the classroom while preparing CIVICA master's students for their first steps into the job market.

Dual degree master's programmes

Dual degree master's programmes are already offered between many CIVICA partners.

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Student initiatives

A podcast series? An essay competition? A collaborative report? The CIVICA alliance is open to student initiatives. Find out more and get to know your local CIVICA Ambassadors.

CIVICA Summer School 2023

Master's students and early-stage researchers are invited to submit an application for the CIVICA Summer School. Participants will have the opportunity to present their research around the theme of 'Challenges of transnational democracy'.

Apply by 31 May

Data Science Seminar Series

This bottom-up multidisciplinary initiative focuses on applications and methodologies of data science for the social, political, and economic world. In regular seminars open to anyone interested, data scientists from CIVICA and beyond explore topics in the current public debate.

08-05-2023 Bocconi University

CIVICA students take on the EU’s challenges

Three cross-campus teams of the CIVICA alliance received a prize for their capstone projects in conclusion of the Multicampus course.

05-10-2022 Sciences Po

"The Future of Europe": A CIVICA Multicampus Course

The Multicampus Course “The Future of Europe” is organised and delivered by instructors from across the alliance. As its name suggests, its objective is to examine four major challenges facing the future of Europe: globalisation and post-globalisation, innovation and digitalisation, democratisation, and the green transition.

Bruno Palier in the classroom, Sciences Po

19-05-2022 Sciences Po

CIVICA’s joint course Welfare States in Transition welcomed master students in Paris

On 29 April, students from the joint master's course “Welfare States in Transition”, co-taught by Anke Hassel (Hertie School) and Bruno Palier (Sciences Po), finally met in person in Paris.