Discover our custom programmes

The Academic Toolbox for Refugees is designed to support refugees and displaced scholars in their pursuit of higher education opportunities. Entirely online, this programme offers academic freedom and content which consists of recorded sessions with methodology specialists, personalised small-group mentoring sessions with Sciences Po students, and weekly live feedback sessions with a Sciences Po professor. The Academic Toolbox for Refugees takes place for 4 weeks during September to October, with both a French language and an English language option. 

Throughout the programme, participants gain core academic foundations in social sciences methodology, academic writing, and quantitative data analysis. Participants also have full access to the University’s e-learning platform, the online library, as well as assessment tools to track their progress. 

Designing Policy in Times of Structural Pressures and Global Disruptions

The Applied Global Studies Programme is a semester-long fall programme designed to introduce second year and advanced students in International Relations, Economics, and Political Science to major contemporary transformations shaping public policy and power relations. It examines economic and political shifts alongside social, environmental, and urban dynamics that increasingly structure decision-making under global constraints and accelerating change. 

Through case-based analysis and collaborative, applied work, students develop the analytical and practical tools needed to understand and respond to complex real-world challenges. 

The courses emphasize: 

• Project-based learning grounded in real-world situations 
• Teamwork that strengthens applied analytical and problem-solving skills 
• Engagement with practitioners involved in international and European policymaking 
• A comparative global perspective, with particular attention to European contexts 

This week-long intensive programme is designed to guide students to explore diverse aspects of Global Governance. The courses, held in October, are structured to examine the notion’s historical evolution, key actors and institutions, as well as prospects and challenges in addressing global issues. Courses include key Sciences Po themes, such as: Climate Governance, Diplomacy, Policymaking, and Economics. 

The teaching format combines lecture-based sessions and interactive tutorials, ensuring both the acquisition of core concepts and active participation through exchanges with peers and professors. By the end of the programme, students will have developed a solid foundation in global governance, enabling them to critically analyse global challenges and contribute thoughtfully to shaping their future.

Partner universities in the past have included Peking University and Wuhan University. 

This custom programme on European Affairs, tailored for Japanese Universities, offers students and introduction on the European integration process and the European Union via an interdisciplinary approach, bringing together experts in the fields of Law, Political Sciences, Sociology, and Economics.

Over the course of three weeks in early spring, students participate in core courses with Sciences Po professors, and benefit from small-group tutorials for further discussion and methodology training. The programme includes a one-day Simulation Game addressing a topic related to the European Unio. Students also have the opportunity to partake in a 2-day trip to Brussels, to visit political landmarks such as the European Parliament and the European Commission.

Historically known as the “Japan Spring School”, partner universities include: Hokkaido University, Keio University, Kyoto University, Sophia University, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, the University of Osaka, the University of Tokyo, and Waseda University.

This custom programme introduces students to contemporary International Affairs. Over the course of a week in September/October, students are introduced to prominent theories, paradigms and debates that shape the discipline of International Relations. Students are encouraged to move beyond theoretical settings to grasp significant shifts in the global order. Throughout the sessions, several dimensions of International Relations are addressed and subjected to critical discussion, from power politics to dynamics of Global Governance, the role of religion in International Affairs to the evolution of International Security.

This custom programme has been designed with and for the students of Nanjing University. 

This online custom programme, carried out in French, is designed for students of the Mastercard Foundation Scholarship programme, who wish to gain a strong basis in Social Sciences in the pursuit of higher education. Held for two weeks in December, students can join one of two academic tracks online: Introduction to Sociology, or Global Studies. The programme provides individualised academic mentoring with a Sciences Po student throughout the course. 

This custom programme on Law and Global Governance has been built over the years with ESADE Business & Law School in Barcelona. Students join this programme as part of their academic career, allowing them to study abroad and learn from experts at Sciences Po. The programme contains two academic tracks: Substantive European Law and Public International Law. Participants study on the Paris campus for two weeks in the month of June.

Through the analysis of instruments of primary and secondary law, as well as judgments from the Court of Justice of the European Union, the first track in EU law offers students an overview of key areas of EU institutional and substantive law.

The second track in Public International Law introduces students to this area of law, emphasizing its structure, sources, subjects, and the unique characteristics distinguishing it from national legal systems. Through theoretical and practical approaches, students learn key legal concepts in both areas, and develop skills in legal reasoning and argumentation.

What started as a relatively small cohort of students has grown over the years of partnership, and the Law & Global governance Programme is now the largest custom programme hosted by Sciences Po, with over 230 students joining for the 2026 session!

In 2026, a brand-new custom programme was developed in partnership with Hochschule Fresenius in Germany, for Master students in the field of Luxury Management. The programme explores luxury as a mirror of global society, a field where aesthetics, power, and inequality intersect. Drawing on political economy, sociology, anthropology, design history, and ethics, the curriculum interrogates the creation, circulation, and moral contradictions of luxury. Students learn to deconstruct luxury not only as an economic sector, but as a language of identity, aspiration, and global domination; from ateliers and art fairs to wellness clinics, catwalks, and space travel.

For over twenty years, Sciences Po has been working with Northwestern University to offer students a comparative approach to public policy and institutions. 

Over the course of the fall semester, Northwestern University students participate in one of two courses hosted at Sciences Po: Public Health in Europe or European Union Studies.

 With the help of Sciences Po faculty and guest speakers, and through field visits in France and in Europe, participants get expert insight into key institutions and policies.