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Back-to-School 2021: Schedule of Inaugural Lectures

Welcome new and welcome back, Sciences Po students! Our 2021 Back-to-School programme of inaugural lectures promises to set you on the right track for ...

The Other Europe: a unique story

1986. For a year, Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, has been trying to reform the system. An unprecedented experiment, perestroika ...

Controversy: A User’s Manual

Most of the challenges facing society today are the subject of controversy. Studying these challenges using specific methodological tools was the objective of a controversy ...

From judo throws to Sciences Po

This article was originally published in December 2017.

Balancing Sports and Academics

This article was originally published in August 2017. Lukas Drammeh was born in Hamburg, Germany, and has lived in multiple countries in West Africa. He attended the Sciences ...

The founder of the Olympic Games studied at Sciences Po

This article was originally published in February 2018. Pierre de Coubertin, initiator of the modern Olympic movement and the Olympic Games in Athens ...

School of Research opens Courses to Early Stage Researchers from CIVICA Universities

Interviews by Alina Thiemann. Read all of the testimonies on the page of the School of Research. True to its goal of ...

Olympic Games: 6 Sciences Po athletes compete in Tokyo!

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 ...

Angèle Paty: Bikepacking from Montpellier to the Shetland Islands

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 ...

Where are our 2019 graduates now?

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 ...

Bachelor students from all over Europe team up for first ever CIVICA European Week

From 8 to 11 June 2021, some 40 undergraduate students from Sciences Po, Bocconi University, the Stockholm School of Economics ...

Undergraduate Admissions 2021: Who joined Sciences Po through the general French pathway?

In its first year of managing admissions from French high school students entirely on the platform Parcoursup, Sciences ...

Keeping books alive: Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière, a key patron of Sciences Po

Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière, the CEO of French holding company FIMALAC and a major patron of the arts, has shown his support ...

Natacha Valla: “Transformation and transition have become the bread and butter of professional life”

The Sciences Po School of Management and Innovation (SMI) embraces its mission of fostering “inclusive ...

An Internet for the people: new partnership with the McCourt Institute

To foster the commitment of its scientific community to studying, deciphering and clarifying the major issues at stake for the common ...

Who are our 2020 and 2021 graduates?

Bright, committed and resilient students: after two years of studies disrupted by the health crisis, the classes of 2020 and 2021 will receive their hard-earned Master's ...

Sciences Po Presidency : The appointment process is open

The procedure for appointing the new President of Sciences Po will begin on Wednesday 9 June with a public call for candidates in the Journal Officiel ...

Fariba Adelkhah: 2 years without freedom

Deprived of freedom for two years: 5 June 2021 marks the second anniversary of the arrest of the researchers Fariba Adelkhah and Roland Marchal in Iran.

Sciences Po celebrates 20 years of the Equal Opportunity Programme

Twenty years ago, Sciences Po created a new, daring and almost revolutionary programme in the French higher education landscape: the Equal ...

Will the Covid-19 Crisis Mark the Decline of the Populist Right?

Donald Trump’s defeat in the U.S. presidential election last November and the relative inability of populists to make their voices heard during ...

Autumn 2021: in-person teaching and a renewed student life

After an unusual and eventful academic year, the start of the 2021/2022 year is intended as a return to normal. All Sciences Po teams are working ...

Watch Season 2 of our video series FOCUS!

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 ...

CIVICA announces research call winners

Eleven projects have been selected for funding in CIVICA’s first call for collaborative research proposals, from a total of 27 applications. Open from 1 February to ...

"Proud to punish": interview with Gilles Favarel-Garrigues and Laurent Gayer

Gilles Favarel-Garrigues and Laurent Gayer are the authors of Fiers de punir. Le monde des justiciers hors-la-loi (Proud to Punish ...