Professor Tancrède Voituriez: 

Learning will be facilitated and enhanced with the full availability of teachers before, during and after the class to exchange, in groups or on a bilateral basis. The pendulum swings from theory to practice, and the situational setting of negotiations where students will decipher the consequences of their own choices, will also boost and speed up learning.

Professor Marie Durrieu:

Learning will be facilitated by alternating dynamic activities in which students will be highly involved (public speaking training, negotiations rounds, debriefs of the negotiations, interactive quizzes etc.) and theoretical complementary sections. These theoretical sections will enlighten the activities from an academic perspective and will provide the students the necessary tools and knowledge to provide an academic analysis of world climate negotiations.

Professor Tancrède Voituriez: 

The practical usefulness of academic knowledge – related to international relations, collective behaviour, theories of change corpus – in a negotiation context with multiple different possible outcomes, will go beyond students' expectations. Other surprises will come from direct, first-hand information shared by the teachers on how the climate negotiations actually unfolded.   

Professor Marie Durrieu:

I believe students will be surprised by how intense and real a simulation of negotiations can feel, especially on such a burning topic. Plus, I believe students will be interested to see how much International Relations theories are useful to understand the functioning of the international system, multilateralism and interactions on the international scene. They will be surprised to observe that phenomena that happened during the simulations have been predicted by International Relations scholars. 

Professor Tancrède Voituriez: 

This online session will help students to learn about the substance and processes of climate negotiations – which will remain prominent in the coming decade. They will also learn about themselves and get a sharper sense of their ability to convince with narratives, evidence and networking, the three basic ingredients of policy recipes.

Professor Marie Durrieu:

Through this online session, students will acquire speaking skills and negotiation tools that will be useful in every step of their secondary studies and career aspirations. Plus, the course will enable them to acquire general culture on international issues and basic concepts of International Relations that will be useful if they continue on that path. Lastly, it will be a first academic experience that will familiarise them with university expectations.