Student activities: Blog, Essay Competition and More

As education is central to the mission of the Chair, our team has launched several efforts to encourage students’ involvement in sustainable development and climate outside of their courses.

The Chair’s Team offers the following exciting student activities:

Students Blog @ the Chair
Original Student Challenges
Student-led podcast (please visit our podcasts section to listen to the episodes!)

More information on our activities will be shared here regularly.

5 March 2024

Call for Submissions to the Premier Issue of the Sciences Po Energy Review

Founding Statement The Sciences Po Energy Review is a publication to advance dialogue about energy. Motivated by the pressing global […]

23 January 2024

‘Feast or Famine’ Podcast Series –Episode 3, Interview with Dr Hilal Elver

Food Systems Series – Episode 3. “Human Rights and Food Systems,” with Dr Hilal Elver, Former Special Rapporteur on the […]

12 January 2024

‘Feast or Famine’ Podcast Series – Episode 2, Interview with Edward Davey

The series This short series of video interviews with experts in food and agriculture explores key ideas and concepts at […]

9 January 2024

COP28 & sustainable food systems: on the agenda now, on the table soon?

By Harriet Klepper, delegate at the COP28 for Young European Leadership (YEL). Food is not only an integral part of […]

5 January 2024

How to address the Externalities of the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism in Serbia

By Elisabeth Friedrich This essay is the First Prize winner of the Fall 2023 Chair’s Essay Competition on the topic […]

30 November 2023

‘Feast or Famine’ Podcast Series – Episode 1, Interview with Dr Agnes Kalibata

The series This short series of video interviews with experts in food and agriculture explores key ideas and concepts at […]

18 October 2023

Take part in this semester’s student essay challenge on just transition policy!

We are pleased to announce the launch of a new edition of the Chair’s student challenge, this time for the […]

13 September 2023

The ESCO Market in Italy and Germany; Overview and Areas of Improvement

By Melani Skenderi For the last decades in Europe, energy services and ESCOs have been considered cost-effective, market-based solutions to […]

13 September 2023

Non-Monetary Biases in Energy Efficiency Investments: A Review of Empirical Findings

By Giulio Nicoletti Energy efficiency is a crucial element of the European Green Deal and the European decarbonisation objectives. (Delivering […]

13 September 2023

How to tackle energy efficiency in transport?

By Ximena Bénard-Tertrais The global transport sector consumes about a quarter of the world’s energy. In the European Union (EU), […]