The civic engagement project is a compulsory part of the Undergraduate College Civic Learning Programme. Students work on individual or group projects over the two semesters of study, complementing the experience gained during their first-year civic internship. The civic engagement project module counts for 3 ECTS credits and is an essential component of the Bachelor degree.

​Specifics and Educational Goals

• Have students develop their thinking on the citizenship issues they have chosen for their Civic Learning Programme (arts and culture, education, equality, employment, environment, justice, housing, health, solidarity, etc.).
• Consolidate disciplinary, multidisciplinary and methodological learning in the humanities and social sciences.
• Actively participate in the design and implementation of a civic or community-service project

Conditions for the civic engagement project

• This internship is compulsory for second-year Undergraduate College students
• The internship must be carried out between September and April
• It is asked that you complete 50 hours minimum of civic engagement
• Independent civic project internship completed within a single organization 
• With a non-partisan, non-trade union, non-proselytizing, non-profit or public interest organisation, whether public or private
• In the form of an internship, volunteer work, fixed-term contract or group project

Steps and completion requirements

Step 1: Declare your independent civic project internship online between August 26 and September 30, 2024

Regardless of the form it takes—internship, voluntary work or fixed-term contract—it is compulsory to declare your internship on the student portal. Your campus’s civic programme coordinator will review the proposed internship.

Step 2: Submit the following documents on the Civic Learning Programme online workspace, section “04. Individual civic independent project” :

1. Critical Reflection that follows on from your civic engagement internship report
2. An internship or engagement agreement to be completed, signed and stamped by the host organisation
3. A copy of your payslip if you completed your civic engagement project internship under a fixed-term contract

Visit Moodle to find the academic calendar for the civic course.

Civic Programme Coordinators

• Dijon campus: Ismaël Combette (ismael.combette@sciencespo.fr)
• Le Havre campus: Alexandra Gravier (alexandra.gravier@sciencespo.fr)
• Menton Campus: Anne-Hélene Lecomte (annehelene.lecomte@sciencespo.fr)
• Nancy Campus: Alexandra Brun (alexandra.brun@sciencespo.fr)
• Paris Campus: Albane de Pompéry (albane.depompery@sciencespo.fr)
• Poitiers Campus: Yvonnick Nibaudeau (yvonnick.nibaudeau@sciencespo.fr)
• Reims Campus: Lorraine Debelenet (yvonnick.nibaudeau@sciencespo.fr