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Shirin Ebadi Calls for Fariba Adelkhah's Liberation

On 5 June 2019, Fariba Adelkhah and Roland Marchal, both researchers at the Sciences Po Centre for International Studies (CERI), were arrested and imprisoned ...

Back to School 2020

In response to the uncertainty facing universities worldwide with regards to the start of the next academic year, Sciences Po is mobilising to guarantee all its students as complete ...

Being European: The Need for Higher Education Leadership

A joint statement on social sciences in a time of crisis, from the Presidents of the partner institutions of CIVICA - The European University of ...

10 Years of the Paris School of International Affairs

Established in 2010, the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) builds on Sciences Po’s century-long tradition of cultivating the minds of leading ...

From Sciences Po to the Deep Blue Sea

One is dedicated to ridding it of plastic, the other to replanting its corals: two Sciences Po graduates explain how and why they have created a business devoted to ...

The Nancy Campus is 20 Years Old!

In October 2000, 42 first-year and second-year students arrived on Sciences Po’s first international campus outside of Paris, in Nancy. Inaugurated by Richard Descoings ...

The World as You’ve Never Seen It Before

As the world deals with an unprecedented pandemic, it is highly recommended that we stay home as much as possible. In the meantime, there is a way to view the globe ...

Webinar: The Welfare States During and After the Covid Crisis

In this webinar, organised in the frame of CIVICA - The European University of Social Sciences - professors and researchers Waltraud Schelke ...

Fariba Adelkhah Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison

On Saturday, 16 March 2020, we learned that Fariba Adelkhah, researcher of Sciences Po’s Centre for International Studies (CERI), who has faced imprisonment ...

Natacha Valla, New Dean of the School of Management and Innovation

Starting in the fall of 2020, the economist Natacha Valla will succeed Marie-Laure Salles-Djelic as Dean of the Sciences Po School of Management ...

Covid-19: A Natural Disaster?

The Covid-19 pandemic has proliferated across media and discussion under a number of different titles: "sanitary crisis", "health emergency", "natural disaster"... What consequences ...

Fear in the Time of Pandemic

Along with the spread of the Covid-19 virus, a growing fear is propagating throughout our societies. The Conversation asked five experts to explain the current crisis as seen ...

How the health crisis is blurring lines between science, politics and society

Since the beginning of the current health crisis, scientists have been in the spotlight, as governments rely on their recommendations ...

Diverse Political Narratives, Fed by Scientific Uncertainties

Pandemics reveal both the extent and the limits of our scientific knowledge. In a way, the current health crisis is difficult to compare with ...

Webinar: The Social Impacts of Confinement

Since mid-March 2020, most of Europe has been under confinement: many sectors of production have come to a halt, and much of the service economy has been shut ...

Wildlife markets after Covid-19

The Covid-19 crisis has attracted widespread international attention to issues in wildlife trade, especially in the context of Chinese wildlife markets and regulation. In ...

Citizens’ Responses to Covid-19: A Worldwide Comparison

Tracking and analysing populations’ reactions to this unprecedented global pandemic is essential. But in order to understand their underlying foundations ...

"This crisis affects all of our topics of research": Three Questions for Guillaume Plantin, Vice President for Research

How do states govern during a pandemic? Is democracy at risk? How can we remain a ...

Government crisis communications during the pandemic

The scale of the Covid-19 crisis demands new, globally coordinated governmental responses. Philipp Brandt and Jan Wörlein, researchers at the Sciences ...

MOOC: 'Searching for the Grand Paris'

Update 17 April 2020: Population density, the inequality of circumstances in quarantine, the exodus of Parisians to the countryside, hospital coordination and the postponing ...

Fake News in the Digital Public Space

Article by Dominique Cardon, Jean-Philippe Cointet, Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou, Guillaume Plique of the Sciences Po médialab and Bruno Patino, Jean-François Fogel of the ...

COVID-19: How the crisis affects society

Ettore Recchi, University Professor and Research Director at the Sociological Observatory of Change (OSC), is coordinating a new research project that brings together ...

A MOOC for starting up a business in the cultural industry

Update 17 April 2020: Ideas aren’t in confinement! While millions of people all over the world are having to stay at home, the cultural sector ...

COVID-19: What Can We Expect From the G20 and the EU?

Article by Sébastien Treyer, Executive Director of IDDRI, and Nicolas Berghmans, Research Fellow on Energy and Climate Policies.