This article was originally published in February 2018.
Pierre de Coubertin, initiator of the modern Olympic movement and the Olympic Games in Athens in 1896, founder of the International Olympic Committee, attended Sciences Po assiduously from 1884 to 1886. Coubertin played an important role in the emergence and development of athletics in France in the early twentieth century.
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Interviews by Alina Thiemann. Read all of the testimonies on the page of the School of Research.
True to its goal of fostering more collaboration in academics across European universities, CIVICA enables doctoral fellows and researchers to exchange on ongoing research, team up for collaborative projects, and network with colleagues through various existing and upcoming joint initiatives and opportunities. Among these is the Early Stage Researcher (ESR) course catalogue, an online resource that brings together classes, workshops and seminars open to (post)doctoral researchers from across the alliance.
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From 23 July, they will represent their teams in Tokyo ... but also a little Sciences Po! Six athletes selected for the 2021 Olympic and Paralympic Games are students in Sciences Po’s Preparatory Certificate for high-level athletes (fr). And for the third time, the French flag will be carried by an alumnus of this programme: Stéphane Houdet will be one of the flag bearers of the French delegation, after Teddy Riner at the Olympic Games in Rio in 2016 and Michaël Jérémiasz at the Paralympic Games that same year.
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45 days, 4 countries, 2,500 kilometres – and all of it by bike... Angèle Paty, a former student of the Europe–North America programme on the Sciences Po Reims Campus has set herself a major challenge. After her third year abroad at the University of St Andrews came to an abrupt and unfortunate end due to the pandemic, Paty launched the project SAORSA, meaning “freedom” in Scottish Gaelic. She has made it her mission to return to Scotland by cycling all the way to the Shetland Islands from her hometown of Montpellier – on her own, on muscle power alone. We asked her a few questions before she set off.
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The results of the 2021 Graduate Employability Survey on the class of 2019 show that Sciences Po students remain very attractive to employers, with 9 out of 10 graduates in professional activity. Despite a job market facing difficulties, 82% of our 2019 graduates found their first job in less than 6 months, and nearly ¾ of them have a stable profession. There are still just as many (37%) working abroad, in 84 countries. Discover all the results of our survey!
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News passes, ideas stay. FOCUS is Sciences Po’s video series that sheds light on current affairs. In each episode, a researcher or professor explores a topical issue related to his or her field of expertise from an unexpected angle. In three minutes, FOCUS offers an out-of-the-box reflection on the issues that drive public debate and proposes perspectives for understanding and acting.
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From 8 to 11 June 2021, some 40 undergraduate students from Sciences Po, Bocconi University, the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) and The London School of Economics (LSE) took part in the first edition of the CIVICA European Week. This event, a central element of the CIVICA Engage Track, aimed to foster social engagement in bachelor students from all over Europe through four days of fast-paced learning and team working with peers from varied backgrounds.
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Sciences Po has obtained for the second time the Label Qualité Français langue étrangère (Quality Label for French as a Foreign Language), attaining the maximum score of three stars. Sciences Po has been attributed this label for the quality of its teaching of French as a foreign language, the professionalism and commitment of the teachers and staff, and the conditions in which the students are taught.
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Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière, the CEO of French holding company FIMALAC and a major patron of the arts, has shown his support for Sciences Po’s activities by making a donation to the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (FNSP). His generous contribution to the purchase and promotion of books in the humanities and social sciences will enable Sciences Po to take ambitious new steps in its policy for disseminating knowledge. In particular, the donation will go towards the new Sciences Po bookshop opening in the heart of the historic Saint-Germain-des-Prés neighbourhood in September 2021.
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The Sciences Po School of Management and Innovation (SMI) embraces its mission of fostering “inclusive prosperity”. From finance to the creative industries, from large multinationals to budding start-ups, its diverse student cohorts form the economic actors of tomorrow.
Dean Natacha Valla explains the school’s strategies, profiles, future prospects and pedagogical innovations in a world in constant transformation.
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