The SGH membership in CIVICA alliance is a new level of our international academic cooperation. It brings innovative educational and civic engagement opportunities to our students. They will have a chance to complete additional international exchanges as well as special teaching projects conducted jointly with CIVICA universities.
About CIVICA
Since its founding in 2019 by leading European social science universities, CIVICA has worked to establish a truly European inter-university campus. In doing so, it has piloted EU’s flagship initiative to enhance strategic partnerships in European higher education and research. CIVICA members have drawn on their joint expertise and shared European values to offer students and staff innovative, transnational opportunities in education, research and civic engagement, with special emphasis on digital innovation and an overarching mission to serve European societies.
CIVICA’s vision
Together with our CIVICA partners, we aim to:
- deepen and expand activities in key areas such as education, research, service to society, innovation and lifelong learning;
- develop a diverse and inclusive CIVICA community;
- establish CIVICA’s lead role in the social sciences with further global outreach;
- and set up a framework for sustainable institutional cooperation.
CIVICA embodies our ambition, as forward-thinking higher education institutions, to assume our civic responsibility as Europeans towards both future European generations and the role of Europe in the world.
CIVICA’s mission
CIVICA will continue to serve local and global communities, defend core European values, foster environmental sustainability, and advance policy-relevant research in the social sciences. Yet, the focus will remain on the alliance’s internal communities. Between autumn 2022 and autumn 2026, thousands of students and (post)doctoral researchers are expected to benefit from enhanced mobility, new and expanded joint educational offers, and Europe-wide opportunities for civic engagement and extracurricular activities. In the face of evolving political contexts, CIVICA strives to build bridges between academia and civil society, while acting as a model of sustainable institutional cooperation and providing a stable and inclusive environment in which the values of autonomy and academic freedom are defended.
Partner institutions in the alliance
CIVICA’s members are:
- BOCCONI UNIVERSITY (ITALY)
- CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY (AUSTRIA)
- EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE (INTERGOVERNMENTAL)
- HERTIE SCHOOL (GERMANY)
- IE University (Spain)
- NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF POLITICAL STUDIES AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION (ROMANIA)
- SCIENCES PO (FRANCE)
- SGH Warsaw School of Economics (Poland)
- STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS (SWEDEN)
- THE LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCES (United Kingdom)
Ongoing recruitment of students, PhD students and faculty for CIVICA projects and initiatives:
Call for CIVICA Ambassadors 2024/2025 [deadline: October 10, 2024 at noon]
call for CIVICA Student Engagement Fund [deadline for applications: November 30]
Log in to myCIVICA platform and keep up to date with current projects and inciatives
More about CIVICA
- CIVICA Joint Course
This is the first joint course offered at the undergraduate level at SGH. The course will be jointly taught by Marta Pachocka, PhD (from SGH) and Professor Laurence Romani (from Stockholm School of Economics). A description of the issues covered in the classes and the semester plan can be found in the syllabus available in the Virtual Dean’s Office (after logging in).
It is worth mentioning that the course will provide you with the opportunity to earn 3 ECTS credits towards your free choice subjects.
Due to the need to accommodate the differences in semester organisation at SGH and SSE, classes will be held online in block mode from 28 October to 16 December this year (You can find the dates of the classes in the schedule published on the Dean’s Office’s website).
We encourage you to sign up for the class Governance and Key Actors in Migration and Integration – a Multidisciplinary Perspective (CIVICA Joint Course) during semester declarations.
- CIVICA Ambassadors 2023/2024
CIVICA Ambassadors range from undergraduate students to postdoctoral researchers, and represent each university in the alliance. Their role is to promote interaction and exchange within the alliance’s communities, and be a first point of contact to CIVICA for their peers.
The Ambassadors network actively shapes CIVICA by initiating bottom-up projects and participating in formal and informal alliance activities.
Call for CIVICA Ambassadors 2024/2025 [deadline: October 10, 2024 at noon]
Meet CIVICA Ambassadors at SGH for the academic year 2023/24
Karolina Grzeszczuk, bachelor student
“CIVICA in one word is “opportunity”. It’s a chance to grow personally and as a society, voice our views, and engage in civic education and innovation. CIVICA allows us to collectively shape the Europe we want to live in” – Karolina Grzeszczuk, bachelor student, SGH Warsaw School of Economics.
Aleks Pietrzak, bachelor student
“CIVICA is another part European integration in which we should all take part as active citizens. Democracy thrives with engaged people, and CIVICA aligns with my belief in civic engagement as the path to sustainable development” – Aleks Pietrzak, bachelor student, SGH Warsaw School of Economics.
MEET THE CIVICA AMBASSADORS FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2023/2024
- CIVICA Student Engagement Fund
The Student Engagement Fund (SEF) is a mini–grant funding scheme aimed at supporting student– or early–stage researchers (ESR)–led joint initiatives within the CIVICA alliance. It aims to foster cross–campus collaboration among students, student associations and ESR from different disciplines and backgrounds in tackling the important issues facing Europe today, and to further enhance the students’ experience within the alliance.
Application deadline: 30 November, 2024.
Watch a short movie about the programme:
- CIVICA Student and Early-Stage Researcher Board
CIVICA Student and Early-Stage Researcher Board
Student and ESR Board represents the voice of CIVICA students and early-stage researchers in all areas of the CIVICA Alliance, particularly those relevant to them, such as student mobility, course offerings, research initiatives, the digital campus, library services, outreach activities, and non-curricular activities.
It works closely with CIVICA Ambassadors to create a real impact and positive change for student engagement within the Alliance. Moreover, CIVICA aims to further engage students and researchers in the governance and implementation of its activities and encourage bottom-up initiatives that strengthen interaction and collaboration within the Alliance.
Read more and meet the Members of CIVICA Student and Early-Stage Researcher Board
- Information materials on the university alliance
- More about Civica in our media
CIVICA gets greenlight from the European Commission: the university alliance continues its expansion
CIVICA EMBARKS ON A NEW ABITIOUS PHASE
CIVICA acting with SGH students in mind
An easy guide to CIVICA – The European University of Social Sciences
- PhD Clinic
The PhD Clinic serves as an arena in which doctoral researchers can identify faculty at CIVICA partner universities whose expertise is relevant to their respective dissertation topics. The clinic is a medium to ease communication between researchers and faculty by giving researchers the chance to contact professors via an in-built email system.
- Sign up to the CIVICA NEWSLETTER
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Next release in January 2024.