CIVIS announces the opening of the registration for the CIVIS course “Crisis and sustainability post-COVID-19”. This short term course will take place in Rome, Italy between 21 and 25 February 2022. However, selected CIVIS students that are unable to travel will have the possibility to follow a series of courses online.
The course aims to strengthen knowledge in studies on the transformations that COVID19 (and the crisis in general) is bringing and will bring to the socio-economic system.
This short term mobility course is open to Bachelor’s, Master or PhD students in Business and Management, Social Science and Humanities at one of the CIVIS member universities. A B1 level of English is required.
Applicants should send their CV and a cover letter (maximum 500 words) by 1 December 2021 to civis.crisis2022@gmail.com. The cover letter should indicate the students’ motivation to attend the Student Week in Crisis and Sustainability 2022. Selected students will be notified on 20 December 2021.
Selected CIVIS students (except students from Sapienza Università di Roma) will be supported by a grant (please contact your university for any information).
This short course intends to present and discuss the consequences and changes taking place in European countries before, during and after the Covid-19 crisis: in the light of these evidences, it will be possible to imagine future scenarios of public policies to face the consequences of the crisis, as well as for business and finance. Past demographic trends will be the basis for analysing the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality, birth rates and migration.
Main topics addressed
- Political economy
- European institutions
- Sustainability
- Sociology
- Demography
- Business strategies
- Big Data
- Finance.
The evaluation will take place on the last day of the course. A committee of professors will evaluate participants based on workshop performances and presentations.
More details about the intensive CIVIS Course “Crisis and sustainability post-COVID-19” are available on the CIVIS webpage here.
CIVIS is a European Civic University formed by the alliance of nine leading research higher education institutions across Europe: Aix-Marseille Université, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Universitatea din București, Université libre de Bruxelles, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Sapienza Università di Roma, Stockholm University, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen and University of Glasgow. It brings together a community of more than 450,000 students and 65,000 staff members including 30,000 academics and researchers.
