Back to School 2025: Save The Dates

The weather is cooling down, the leaves are turning yellow and papering the streets, and lecture halls are reopening their doors: it's time for the 2025/2026 academic year. Check out the agenda.

The inaugural lectures of the graduate schools

At the beginning of a new academic year, each Sciences Po graduate school welcomes a guest of honour who gives an inspiring speech to students, to guide them throughout their journey. 2025 is marked by the launch of the Paris Climate School, Sciences Po's eighth master's school, which will welcome its first intake of students in a year's time.

Trois écoles de master ont déjà annoncé les invités de leurs leçons inaugurales :

Three graduate schools have already announced the guest speakers of their inaugural lectures:

1rst September: Joseph E. Stiglitz at the School of Research

The School of Research is honoured to welcome Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz, an iconic figure in contemporary economics and winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics. His inaugural lecture will take place from 5pm to 7pm in  Émile Boutmy Lecture Hall (27, rue Saint-Guillaume) in the presence of Dina Waked, Dean of the School of Research, Heads of studies and the team of the School of Research.

Joseph E. Stiglitz is an American economist and a professor at Columbia University. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001 and the John Bates Clark Medal in 1979. He is also the co-chair of the High-Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress at the OECD, and the Chief Economist of the Roosevelt Institute. He is a former senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank and a former chair of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers. In 2011, Professor Stiglitz was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

11 September: Mattias Guyomar at the Law School

The Law School is inviting Mattias Guyomar, President of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), in the presence of Luis Vassy, President of Sciences Po. The event will take place from 2:45pm to 4:15pm in the Émile Boutmy Lecture Hall (27, rue Saint-Guillaume).

The third Frenchman to become President of the ECHR, Mattias Guyomar has served as a judge there since 2020. He has also held various positions at the French Conseil d'État and was Government Commissioner at the French Tribunal des conflits.

25 September : Line Vaaben at the Journalism School

The Journalism School welcomes Line Vaaben, journalist and editor at Politiken, a Danish daily newspaper. The inaugural lecture will take place from 4:15 pm to 5:45 pm in the Leroy Beaulieu Saurel Lecture Hall (27 rue Saint-Guillaume).

Line Vaaben has worked for several national Danish newspapers. She holds a unique position as “existential editor” at Politiken, where she specialises in narrative journalism and focuses on human stories. She is also an expert in immersive storytelling and interviewing vulnerable sources. Her textbook Fortællingernes tid is a reference work for Danish journalism schools.

Back to School on Sciences Po Seven Campuses

Chaque année, les étudiants en première année de bachelor sont accueillis sur l'un des campus du Collège universitaire de Sciences Po à Dijon, Le Havre, Menton, Nancy, Paris, Poitiers et Reims. Au programme ? Une journée intense de rencontre avec leur promotion, les étudiants de deuxième année, les équipes pédagogiques et administratives, agrémentée de spectacles, concerts et autres animations organisées par les associations étudiantes et les services aux étudiants.

Every year, first-year bachelor's students join one of the campuses of Sciences Po's Undergraduate College in Dijon, Le Havre, Menton, Nancy, Paris, Poitiers, and Reims. What's on the agenda? An intense day of meeting the students of their class, second-year students, teaching and administrative staff, complemented by shows, concerts, and other activities organised by student associations and student services.

The 2025 undergraduate intake ceremonies by chronological order:

• Reims: 28 August,
• Paris: 29 August,
• Le Havre: 2 September,
• Dijon: 3 September,
• Menton, celebrating the campus 20th anniversary with Benjamin Nora: 5 September,
• Poitiers: 11 September,
• Nancy, celebrating the campus 25th anniversary: 12 September.

23 September: the handover of the Chair of Creative Writing

Carole Martinez is the new Chair holder for autumn 2025 and will begin teaching students in September 2025. French writer Carole Martinez has enjoyed critical and public success since the publication of her first novel, Le cœur cousu (2007), which won the Renaudot des lycéens prize. Through her writing, Carole Martinez continually celebrates the power of women in the face of tragedy. They lock themselves away to escape marriage (Du domaine des Murmures, 2011), bring the living and the dead together in dialogue (La terre qui penche, 2015) and watch over the secrets of the deceased (Les roses fauves, 2020). In 2024, she published Dors ton sommeil de brute, exploring the dark side of a disturbing world through an ecological fable.

The event marking the handover from Sylvain Prudhomme to Carole Martinez will take place from 5:15pm to 6:30pm in the Simone Veil amphitheatre (28 rue des Saints-Pères). It will be an opportunity to discuss their inspirations, the relationship between literature and art, and their role as holders of the Chair of Creative Writing at Sciences Po.

26 September to 1st October: Careers Fair

This fair is a unique opportunity for 1,000 of our students and young graduates which possess a wide range of professional expertises to meet over a hundred employers in their business fields and sectors (consulting, banking, finance, energy, environment, international relations, impact, luxury, retailing, marketing, communication, media, journalism, real estate, housing, urban planning, public affairs, defense & security, law...).

See you on 26 September on the Paris campus from 10am to 6pm (1 place Saint-Thomas) and online on 30 September or 1 October.