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    The asso­ci­at­ed part­ners cov­er five con­ti­nents and all the top­ics relat­ed to the three Majors. They increase the aca­d­e­m­ic net­works but also the poten­tial employ­er net­works in sev­er­al sec­tors. They offer a wide set of aca­d­e­m­ic and pro­fes­sion­al oppor­tu­ni­ties to the students :

    • the aca­d­e­m­ic asso­ci­at­ed part­ners are insti­tu­tions where stu­dents can spend the Semes­ter 4 (Mas­ter’s the­sis peri­od). They pro­vide key knowl­edge, skills and com­pe­tences and par­tic­i­pate in joint super­vi­sion of the Master’s the­sis. They also offer cours­es to vis­it­ing stu­dents and may con­tribute to the cours­es at the dif­fer­ent EPOG part­ner insti­tu­tions. The asso­ciate part­ners do not award degrees with­in the EPOG pro­gramme;
    • the non-aca­d­e­m­ic asso­ci­at­ed part­ners may par­tic­i­pate in EPOG activ­i­ties (e.g. teach­ing, sem­i­nars and super­vi­sion of stu­dents), pro­vide intern­ship oppor­tu­ni­ties, and con­tribute to net­work­ing activ­i­ties or EPOG funding.

    The aca­d­e­m­ic insti­tu­tions locat­ed in Paris form the Paris hub. They offer more oppor­tu­ni­ties for stu­dents to ben­e­fit from more tai­lored cours­es and expert super­vi­sors in the var­i­ous spe­cial­i­sa­tions. The asso­ci­at­ed part­nets from the Paris hub are: 

    The ENS Paris Saclay (École Nor­male Supérieure de Paris Saclay — for­mer­ly ENS Cachan) is a lead­ing insti­tu­tion found­ed in 1912. It trains future researchers and fac­ul­ty mem­bers, with an empha­sis on fun­da­men­tal issues con­nect­ed to prac­ti­cal, indus­tri­al, tech­no­log­i­cal, eco­nom­ic and social sub­jects of inter­est. It will host stu­dents dur­ing Semes­ter 4 and con­tribute to EPOG cours­es and/or sem­i­nars in Paris espe­cial­ly on the areas of research devel­oped at the IDHES (Insti­tu­tions and His­tor­i­cal Dynam­ics of Eco­nom­ics and Soci­ety), includ­ing knowledge,s ocioe­co­nom­ic, devel­op­ment eco­nom­ics and Euro­pean economics.

    The IMT Busi­ness School (Insti­tut Mines-Télé­com Busi­ness School) is one of 13 grad­u­ate schools in the Insti­tut Mines-Tele­com, one of France’s major edu­ca­tion­al and research estab­lish­ments focused on engi­neer­ing. IMT BS has been recog­nised for its dual exper­tise in man­age­ment and in infor­ma­tion and com­mu­ni­ca­tion tech­nolo­gies (ICT). It will host stu­dents dur­ing Semes­ter 4 and con­tribute to EPOG cours­es and/or sem­i­nars in Paris espe­cial­ly on inno­va­tion and the dig­i­tal transition.

    Found­ed in 1795, The INALCO (Insti­tut Nation­al des Langues et Civil­i­sa­tions Ori­en­tales) teach­es and con­ducts research on the lan­guages of Cen­tral and East­ern Europe, Asia, Ocea­nia, Africa and the indige­nous peo­ples of the Amer­i­c­as, through dis­ci­plines such as geog­ra­phy, his­to­ry, anthro­pol­o­gy, eco­nom­ics, soci­ol­o­gy, polit­i­cal and social sci­ences. Inal­co hosts 14 research teams, half of which are run joint­ly with the French research orga­ni­za­tions CNRS and IRD. The teach­ings and research of Inal­co bring unique exper­tise on the con­tem­po­rary world. INALCO will host stu­dents dur­ing Semes­ter 4 and con­tribute to EPOG cours­es and/or sem­i­nars in Paris espe­cial­ly on the devel­op­ment and trans­for­ma­tions of East­ern Euro­pean countries.

    The Uni­ver­si­ty Paris 8 has been found­ed as an exper­i­men­tal aca­d­e­m­ic cen­tre in Vin­cennes after “mai 68”. It has become a major teach­ing and research cen­tre for human­i­ties, social sci­ences and arts in Paris area. It was a pio­neer in fields that were usu­al­ly not approached by oth­er French uni­ver­si­ties: psy­cho­analy­sis, urban plan­ning, geopol­i­tics, cin­e­ma, plas­tic arts, gen­der stud­ies. It will host stu­dents dur­ing Semes­ter 4 and con­tribute to EPOG cours­es and/or sem­i­nars in Paris espe­cial­ly in the field of dig­i­tal labour and the the­o­ry of Commons.

    The Uni­ver­si­ty Sor­bonne Paris Nord (forme­ly Uni­ver­si­ty Paris 13) is mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary uni­ver­si­ty which acts as a key play­er in the “Con­dorcet” Cam­pus of Excel­lence in social sci­ences (includ­ing the best nation­al insti­tu­tions in the field). Its eco­nom­ics research cen­tre (CEPN) is world­wide renown for its het­ero­dox approach­es to eco­nom­ics and was the ini­tial founder of the EPOG Eras­mus Mundus Master’s course. The uni­ver­si­ty will host stu­dents dur­ing Semes­ter 4 and con­tribute to EPOG cours­es and/or sem­i­nars in Paris espe­cial­ly in the fields of macro­eco­nom­ics, inno­va­tion eco­nom­ics and indus­tri­al economics.

    The pro­gramme includes also asso­ci­at­ed part­ners from 5 con­ti­nents (Europe, North and South Amer­i­ca, Asia and Africa) bring­ing com­ple­men­tary spe­cial­i­sa­tions. They cov­er all the EPOG areas. They are recog­nised world­wide for their orig­i­nal approach of eco­nom­ics, which takes account of the role of the insti­tu­tions, his­tor­i­cal paths, soci­o­log­i­cal per­spec­tives, the sys­temic dimen­sions of the eco­nom­ic regimes…

    Europe

    Austria

    Uni­ver­si­ty of Nat­ur­al Resources and Life Sci­ences in Europe (BOKU) (Aus­tria) is a lead­ing uni­ver­si­ty with a strong focus on inter­dis­ci­pli­nary sus­tain­abil­i­ty research inte­grat­ing approach­es from life- and social sci­ences. The Insti­tute of Social Ecol­o­gy Vien­na, which is part of the Depart­ment of Eco­nom­ics and Social Sci­ences at BOKU, deals with the inter­re­la­tion­ship of social and nat­ur­al sys­tems in the con­text of sus­tain­able devel­op­ment. Research is struc­tured into five the­mat­ic areas: Social Metab­o­lism, Land Use and Col­o­niza­tion of Ecosys­tems, Long-term Socio-eco­log­i­cal Research and Envi­ron­men­tal His­to­ry, Social-Eco­log­i­cal Trans­for­ma­tions, and Inte­grat­ed Socio-Eco­log­i­cal Mod­el­ling. SEC has a rich expe­ri­ence in the devel­op­ment of con­cepts and indi­ca­tors for mon­i­tor­ing bio­phys­i­cal aspects of eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment and has con­tributed to the devel­op­ment of inter­na­tion­al method­olog­i­cal stan­dards at OECD, EUROSTAT and UNEP. Researchers from the Insti­tute of Social Ecol­o­gy reg­u­lar­ly con­tribute to nation­al and inter­na­tion­al assess­ments reports and pol­i­cy con­sult­ing, includ­ing IPCC reports and the UNEP’s Inter­na­tion­al Resource Panel.

    Belgium

    The Uni­ver­sité catholique de Lou­vain (UCLou­vain) is build­ing on almost 600 years’ expe­ri­ence. It is a mul­ti­site uni­ver­si­ty in Bel­gium at the fore­front of inno­va­tion and excel­lence in edu­ca­tion and research. UCLou­vain active­ly par­tic­i­pates in the R&I pro­grammes of the Euro­pean Union. It is notably involved in 176 projects with­in FP7 and in already 98 Hori­zon 2020 projects. Among Hori­zon 2020 projects, UCL hosts 30 MSCA and 23 ERC. The Insti­tute of Mechan­ics, Mate­ri­als, and Civ­il Engi­neer­ing (iMMC) of the Uni­ver­sité catholique de Lou­vain with four active ERC grants, a panoply of suc­cess­ful spin off com­pa­nies and sev­er­al world-rec­og­nized sci­en­tists, is a lead­ing inter­na­tion­al cen­ter for research in engi­neer­ing. The mem­bers of iMMC are heav­i­ly involved in the edu­ca­tion of engi­neers at the Lou­vain School of Engi­neer­ing. The Insti­tute research engages in sup­port­ing econ­o­my and indus­try in the fields of aero­nau­tics, trans­porta­tion, ener­gy con­ver­sion, new nuclear tech­nolo­gies, civ­il engi­neer­ing, chem­i­cal engi­neer­ing, chem­i­cal and bio­log­i­cal process­es, met­al­lur­gy, coat­ings and com­pos­ites, mecha­tron­ic sys­tems and robot­ics, and sim­u­la­tion software.

    Denmark

    Aal­borg Uni­ver­si­ty (Den­n­mark) is a world-renowned research uni­ver­si­ty in par­tic­u­lar for its ped­a­gog­i­cal struc­ture based on prob­lem-cen­tred, real-life projects of edu­ca­tion­al and research rel­e­vance. It will host stu­dents dur­ing Semes­ter 4 and con­tribute to EPOG bring­ing an exper­tise in the fields of het­ero­dox eco­nom­ics, inno­va­tion, macro­eco­nom­ics, sus­tain­able devel­op­ment, and Social Data Science.

    Roskilde Uni­ver­si­ty (RUC) (Den­mark) is a pub­lic, research-dri­ven uni­ver­si­ty found­ed in 1972. The uni­ver­si­ty builds on inno­v­a­tive and stu­dent-cen­tered forms of learn­ing, strong inter­dis­ci­pli­nary research envi­ron­ments, and a shared focus on the great social, cul­tur­al, eco­nom­ic and envi­ron­men­tal chal­lenges in the world around us. Roskilde Uni­ver­si­ty offers Eng­lish-taught under­grad­u­ate, grad­u­ate and post-grad­u­ate pro­grams with­in social sci­ences, busi­ness stud­ies, arts and human­i­ties, sci­ence, tech­nol­o­gy, health care and envi­ron­men­tal assess­ment. The research at the Depart­ment of Social Sci­ences and Busi­ness focus­es on soci­etal changes, busi­ness, eco­nom­ics and the impact of such devel­op­ments on dif­fer­ent soci­eties around the world. We aim at gen­er­at­ing nov­el sci­en­tif­ic insights into the on-going soci­etal changes, con­fronta­tions, and con­flicts. As our teach­ing is close­ly relat­ed to our research activ­i­ties it attach­es high impor­tance to method­olog­i­cal skills and is char­ac­ter­ized by its mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary nature. The new pro­gram in Socio-Eco­nom­ics offers full-fledged degrees in Eco­nom­ics at Bsc and Msc lev­els with Eco­log­i­cal Eco­nom­ics at its core.

    Estonia

    The Tallinn Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy (Tal­Tech) (Esto­nia) is the only tech­no­log­i­cal pub­lic uni­ver­si­ty in Esto­nia and the flag­ship of Eston­ian engi­neer­ing and tech­nol­o­gy edu­ca­tion. The research at Rag­nar Nurkse Depart­ment of Inno­va­tion and Gov­er­nance (RND) – the unit respon­si­ble for EPOG asso­ci­at­ed part­ner­ship – focus­es in two main fields: “Pub­lic Admin­is­tra­tion and Man­age­ment” and “Inno­va­tion Pol­i­cy and Tech­nol­o­gy Gov­er­nance”. Through­out the two fields, RND spe­cial­izes unique­ly into inter­dis­ci­pli­nary research at the cross­roads of pub­lic pol­i­cy and imple­men­ta­tion. Their research looks at how poli­cies are imple­ment­ed and how the imple­men­ta­tion process­es feed back into pol­i­cy mak­ing and in fact change poli­cies. It will host stu­dents dur­ing Semes­ter 4 and con­tribute to EPOG by bring­ing an exper­tise on the dig­i­tal tran­si­tion at the soci­etal, gov­ern­men­tal and econ­o­my level

    France

    The Uni­ver­si­ty of Bor­deaux (France) is one of the top mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary French uni­ver­si­ties. In the field of eco­nom­ics, the GREThA (Groupe de Recherche en Économie Théore­tique et Appliquée) is a research insti­tute — joint with CNRS (the Nation­al Cen­tre for Sci­en­tif­ic Research) orga­nized around 3 pro­grams: “Inno­va­tion, Sci­ence, Indus­try”; “Dynam­ics of ecosys­tems: Envi­ron­ment, Cities, Com­plex­i­ty”; and “Inequal­i­ties, Devel­op­ment, and Mon­di­al­i­sa­tion”. GRETHA is respon­si­ble of Master’s pro­grammes in “Eco­nom­ics of Inno­va­tion”, “Envi­ron­men­tal eco­nom­ics”, “Eco­nom­ics of Devel­op­ment”, and “Finance”. The uni­ver­si­ty will host stu­dents dur­ing Semes­ter 4 and con­tribute to EPOG by bring­ing an exper­tise pri­mar­i­ly in the fields of indus­tri­al eco­nom­ics, eco­nom­ics of sci­ence and inno­va­tion (includ­ing migra­tion and inno­va­tion), and eco­nom­ics of intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty (includ­ing patent­ing in devel­op­ing countries).

    Germany

    Greece

    The Nation­al Tech­ni­cal Uni­ver­si­ty of Athens (NTUA) (Greece) is the old­est and most pres­ti­gious Greek aca­d­e­m­ic insti­tu­tion in the field of Tech­nol­o­gy and Engi­neer­ing. On the bor­der between engi­neer­ing and the econ­o­my, the Lab­o­ra­to­ry of Indus­tri­al and Ener­gy Eco­nom­ics (LIEE) con­ducts mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary research around the study of the struc­ture, the orga­ni­za­tion, the oper­a­tion, and the devel­op­ment of the indus­tri­al sys­tem, as well as the study of indus­tri­al pol­i­cy. The research inter­ests of the Lab­o­ra­to­ry also include ener­gy sav­ings and relat­ed prob­lems, from the tech­ni­cal, eco­nom­i­cal, and envi­ron­men­tal points of view, with appli­ca­tion to an indus­tri­al unit or a set­tle­ment. The uni­ver­si­ty will host stu­dents dur­ing Semes­ter 4 and con­tribute to EPOG bring­ing an exper­tise espe­cial­ly on eco­nom­ic top­ics relat­ed to the indus­try and ener­gy: pol­i­cy and strat­e­gy research focus­ing on the study of inno­va­tion, research net­works, knowl­edge flows, firm’s dynam­ic capa­bil­i­ties and resources, indus­tri­al sec­tors, knowl­edge-inten­sive entre­pre­neur­ship, pub­lic pro­cure­ment, inter­na­tion­al com­pet­i­tive­ness as well as ICTs, new emerg­ing indus­tries, ener­gy and environment.

    Italy

    The Uni­ver­si­ty of Bari Aldo Moro (UNIBA) (Italy), found­ed in 1925, is one of the lead­ing aca­d­e­m­ic insti­tu­tions in South­ern Italy. It offers a wide range of under­grad­u­ate, mas­ter’s, and doc­tor­al pro­grams in fields such as human­i­ties, eco­nom­ics, law, sci­ence, and tech­nol­o­gy. With over 40,000 enrolled stu­dents, it stands out for its research excel­lence and its cen­tral role in the cul­tur­al and eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment of Apu­lia and South­ern Italy. The uni­ver­si­ty has a strong rep­u­ta­tion in the med­ical, eco­nom­ic, and legal fields and is increas­ing­ly open­ing up inter­na­tion­al­ly through exchange pro­grams and col­lab­o­ra­tions. Thanks to its research cen­tres and aca­d­e­m­ic spin-offs, the Uni­ver­si­ty of Bari plays a sig­nif­i­cant role in inno­va­tion and tech­nol­o­gy trans­fer at both the local and nation­al levels.

    The Uni­ver­si­ty of Pisa (UNIPI) (Italy), found­ed in 1343, is one of the most his­toric and pres­ti­gious uni­ver­si­ties in Europe. With twen­ty depart­ments and world-class research cen­ters, UNIPI excels across diverse fields such as engi­neer­ing, med­i­cine, com­put­er sci­ence, and agri­cul­ture. Its long-stand­ing col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Nation­al Board of Research, cul­tur­al insti­tu­tions, and industries—especially in infor­ma­tion technology—cements its role as a hub of inno­va­tion. The Depart­ment of Eco­nom­ics and Man­age­ment is renowned for its exper­tise in devel­op­ing qual­i­ta­tive and quan­ti­ta­tive mod­els to assess the impact of eco­nom­ic and social poli­cies. The uni­ver­si­ty is com­mit­ted to fos­ter­ing aca­d­e­m­ic excel­lence and pio­neer­ing research, influ­enc­ing both nation­al and inter­na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ties. UNIPI is also a part­ner of the EPOG doc­tor­al net­work (EPOG-DN).

    The Uni­ver­si­ty of Siena (UNISI) (Italy) is in its eight cen­turies of exis­tence. It has pro­duced advanced knowl­edge in every field of study and is today one of the most inno­v­a­tive Ital­ian and Euro­pean uni­ver­si­ties, with remark­able results in research, teach­ing, and ser­vices to the stu­dents. The twen­ti­eth cen­tu­ry saw the con­stant growth of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Siena, which grew from four hun­dred enrolled stu­dents between the two World Wars to over 20,000 in recent years. At the same time, the fac­ul­ties increased: in addi­tion to the his­toric fac­ul­ties of Med­i­cine and Law, new fac­ul­ties were added: Phar­ma­cy (1933), Math­e­mat­i­cal, Phys­i­cal, and Nat­ur­al Sci­ences (1962), Eco­nom­ics (1966), Human­i­ties in Arez­zo (estab­lished in 1969 as a Teacher Train­ing Col­lege), Human­i­ties (1970), Engi­neer­ing (1992), and Polit­i­cal Sci­ences (1997). Today, we are one of the lead­ing Euro­pean insti­tu­tions, ful­ly com­mit­ted to the future with our ded­i­ca­tion to research and innovation.

    Netherlands

    The Unit­ed Nations Uni­ver­si­ty – Maas­tricht Eco­nom­ic and Social Research Insti­tute on Inno­va­tion and Tech­nol­o­gy (UNU-MERIT) (Nether­lands) is a research and train­ing insti­tute of the Unit­ed Nations Uni­ver­si­ty (UNU) which col­lab­o­rates close­ly with Maas­tricht Uni­ver­si­ty. UNU-MERIT focus­es on advanc­ing research in soci­etal pol­i­cy and inno­va­tion, offer­ing edu­ca­tion, and mobil­is­ing knowl­edge to unlock the full poten­tial of inno­va­tion in achiev­ing inclu­sive and sus­tain­able development.

    Spain

    United-Kingdom

    The Uni­ver­si­ty of Leeds (Unit­ed-King­dom) is one of the largest research-inten­sive uni­ver­si­ties in the UK, engaged in an excep­tion­al­ly diverse range of dis­ci­plines. The eco­nom­ics depart­ment, locat­ed with­in the Leeds Uni­ver­si­ty Busi­ness School, is the only plu­ral­ist group with­in the ‘Rus­sell Group’ of UK uni­ver­si­ties. Its mem­bers are are renowned for research in areas includ­ing finan­cial­iza­tion, inter­na­tion­al eco­nom­ics, macro­eco­nom­ic pol­i­cy, devel­op­ment, sus­tain­abil­i­ty, and method­ol­o­gy. Eco­nom­ics cur­rent­ly pro­vides the home base for two mul­ti-year research ini­tia­tives focused on using research-based ‘sys­tem of sys­tems’ insights to enhance well-being, inclu­sive growth, and sus­tain­able liv­ing with­in the York­shire region through col­lab­o­ra­tion with local and region­al gov­ern­ments and with com­mu­ni­ties – the York­shire and Hum­ber Pol­i­cy Engage­ment Research Net­work (Y‑PERN) and the York­shire Pol­i­cy Inno­va­tion Part­ner­ship (YPIP). The Y‑PERN and YPIP ini­tia­tives are path-break­ing in that they link togeth­er aca­d­e­mics and researchers in mul­ti­ple dis­ci­plines in all 12 uni­ver­si­ties with­in the York­shire and Hum­ber region. The uni­ver­si­ty will host stu­dents dur­ing Semes­ter 4 and con­tribute their exper­tise to EPOG in areas of exper­tise and pol­i­cy engage­ment men­tioned above.

    SOAS Uni­ver­si­ty of Lon­don is the lead­ing High­er Edu­ca­tion insti­tu­tion in Europe spe­cial­is­ing in the study of Asia, Africa and the Near and Mid­dle East. With a vast repos­i­to­ry of knowl­edge and exper­tise on its spe­cial­ist regions, SOAS is unique­ly placed to inform and shape cur­rent think­ing about the eco­nom­ic, polit­i­cal, cul­tur­al, secu­ri­ty and reli­gious chal­lenges of our world. SOAS schol­ars grap­ple with the press­ing issues con­fronting two-thirds of humankind today: democ­ra­cy, devel­op­ment, econ­o­my, finance, pub­lic and cor­po­rate pol­i­cy, human rights, migra­tion, iden­ti­ty, legal sys­tems, pover­ty, reli­gion, and social change. The uni­ver­si­ty will host stu­dents dur­ing Semes­ter 4 and con­tribute to EPOG bring­ing an exper­tise espe­cial­ly on eco­nom­ic top­ics relat­ed to the development.

    The Uni­ver­si­ty Col­lege Lon­don (UCL) (Unit­ed-King­dom) has been found­ed in 1826 in the heart of Lon­don. It is a lead­ing mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary uni­ver­si­ty, with more than 16,000 staff and 50,000 stu­dents from over 150 dif­fer­ent coun­tries. With­in UCL, the Insti­tute for Inno­va­tion and Pub­lic Pur­pose (IIPP) is chang­ing how pub­lic val­ue is imag­ined, prac­tised and eval­u­at­ed to tack­le soci­etal chal­lenges. The world is fac­ing press­ing chal­lenges — social, tech­no­log­i­cal and eco­nom­ic. What is the future of the wel­fare state? How can dig­i­tal plat­forms be gov­erned in demo­c­ra­t­ic and inclu­sive ways? What new forms of invest­ment, reg­u­la­tion and col­lab­o­ra­tion can best tack­le glob­al warm­ing? The answers to these ques­tions require pub­lic and pri­vate organ­i­sa­tions to col­lab­o­rate in new ways and become more pur­pose-dri­ven. In this con­text, gov­ern­ments require dif­fer­ent tools and capa­bil­i­ties to co-cre­ate and co-shape mar­kets, not just fix mar­ket fail­ures. IIPP’s work is ded­i­cat­ed to this ambi­tion. We bring revived notions of pub­lic val­ue and pub­lic pur­pose to the cen­tre of polit­i­cal econ­o­my and to con­crete pol­i­cy prac­tice. Our work equips lead­ers to co-design growth that is inno­va­tion-led, sus­tain­able and inclusive.

    European networks

    The Eras­mus Mundus Stu­dents and Alum­ni Asso­ci­a­tion (EMA) was found­ed in 2006 and is reg­is­tered as an AISBL non-prof­it organ­i­sa­tion. Its aim is to help EMJMD stu­dents and alum­ni, pro­mote high­er edu­ca­tion, and be a go-to net­work for our Alum­ni across the world.

    Africa

    South-Africa

    Asia

    Japan

    Hitot­sub­ashi Uni­ver­si­ty (Japan) is a nation­al uni­ver­si­ty locat­ed in Tokyo, found­ed in 1875 as the first busi­ness school in Japan. It is the only uni­ver­si­ty among the top ten ‘Nation­al Des­ig­nat­ed Uni­ver­si­ties’ that spe­cial­izes exclu­sive­ly in the human­i­ties and social sci­ences. HU’s edu­ca­tion­al strength is its focus on small-group edu­ca­tion through sem­i­nars which keeps class sizes small and allows stu­dents to work close­ly with the fac­ul­ty. It will host stu­dents dur­ing Semes­ter 4 and con­tribute to EPOG bring­ing an exper­tise espe­cial­ly on indus­tri­al pol­i­cy, the dig­i­tal econ­o­my and the eco­nom­ics of knowl­edge, innovation.

    South-Korea

    Kyung­pook Nation­al Uni­ver­si­ty (South-Korea) is one of the best uni­ver­si­ties in Korea. It is ded­i­cat­ed to the mod­ern­iza­tion and devel­op­ment of soci­ety. The mis­sion of the grad­u­ate depart­ment of eco­nom­ics in KNU is to train glob­al­ly com­pet­i­tive eco­nom­ic experts with refined ana­lyt­i­cal skills. It will host stu­dents dur­ing Semes­ter 4 and con­tribute to EPOG bring­ing its strong plu­ral­ist and het­ero­dox tra­di­tion in eco­nom­ics (from behav­ioral eco­nom­ics, evo­lu­tion­ary eco­nom­ics, post-Key­ne­sian eco­nom­ics, Marx­i­an eco­nom­ics, insti­tu­tion­al eco­nom­ics, to the eco­nom­ics of inequal­i­ty) and its exper­tise on Asian economy.

    North America

    Mexico

    The Nation­al Autonomous Uni­ver­si­ty of Mex­i­co (UNAM) (Mex­i­co) is the largest uni­ver­si­ty in Latin Amer­i­ca. The EPOG asso­ci­at­ed part­ner­ship with UNAM is pri­mar­i­ly linked to the pro­gram for Asian and African Stud­ies. The pur­pose of this pro­gram is to cre­ate an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary research group which car­ries out stud­ies that strength­en the links between Mex­i­co, Asia and Africa. This then allow to cre­ate the nec­es­sary knowl­edge that allows reflec­tion on the exist­ing prob­lems in Asia and Africa, and there­by con­tribute with solu­tions, as well as to pre­vent sim­i­lar prob­lems in Mex­i­co. The uni­ver­si­ty will host stu­dents dur­ing Semes­ter 4 and con­tribute to EPOG bring­ing an exper­tise espe­cial­ly on these topics.

    United States of America

    The Uni­ver­si­ty of Mass­a­chu­setts — Amherst (UMass) (USA) is a world-renowned research uni­ver­si­ty. Its depart­ment of eco­nom­ics offers cours­es in a wide range of areas includ­ing macro­eco­nom­ics, micro­eco­nom­ics, inter­na­tion­al eco­nom­ics, devel­op­ment, labor, fem­i­nist eco­nom­ics, strat­i­fi­ca­tion eco­nom­ics, and polit­i­cal econ­o­my. It is wide­ly regard­ed as a cen­tre of excel­lence for the study of a spec­trum of per­spec­tives includ­ing a plu­ral­is­tic approach of eco­nom­ics. Grad­u­ates from the depart­ment have found jobs in pri­vate indus­try, aca­d­e­m­ic insti­tu­tions and research bod­ies. The uni­ver­si­ty It will host stu­dents dur­ing Semes­ter 4 and con­tribute to EPOG bring­ing an exper­tise espe­cial­ly in the fields of inequal­i­ty and pover­ty, eco­nom­ic growth and employ­ment, finan­cial cri­sis and reg­u­la­tion, glob­al­i­sa­tion and trade, with a spe­cial focus on North-America.

    South America

    Argentina

    Global network

    The pro­gramme includes inter­na­tion­al organ­i­sa­tions and organ­i­sa­tion with glob­al reach bring­ing high­ly qual­i­fied and world-renowned exper­tise in one or more fields relat­ed to the EPOG Majors.

    International financial institution

    The Agence Française de Développe­ment (AFD) is a pub­lic and sol­i­dar­i­ty-based devel­op­ment bank with a man­date to help France’s part­ners along the path­way towards this world in com­mon. It oper­ates in a num­ber of sec­tors (ener­gy, health, bio­di­ver­si­ty, water, urban plan­ning, train­ing) and offers a wide range of finan­cial and non-finan­cial ser­vices. Its pri­or­i­ties? Fight against cli­mate change and pover­ty, and help sta­bi­lize frag­ile or post-cri­sis coun­tries to fight against. AFD is a cen­tral actor in France’s devel­op­ment pol­i­cy and sup­ports States, com­pa­nies, local author­i­ties and NGOs. It builds syn­er­gies with them to cat­alyze, feed into and dis­sem­i­nate inno­v­a­tive solu­tions that ben­e­fit peo­ple. Through its net­work of 85 agen­cies, AFD oper­ates in 108 coun­tries, where it is cur­rent­ly financ­ing, mon­i­tor­ing and sup­port­ing over 2,500 devel­op­ment projects. Thanks to its net­work of researchers and experts, it also par­tic­i­pates in the pub­lic pol­i­cy dia­logue, shares its know-how, and rais­es aware­ness of devel­op­ment and inter­na­tion­al sol­i­dar­i­ty issues. It brings the­o­ret­i­cal and field expe­ri­ence in the areas of the three EPOG Majors (in par­tic­u­lar in finance, devel­op­ment, inno­va­tion and the eco­log­i­cal transition).

    International organisation

    The Unesco.

    The Unit­ed Nations — Eco­nom­ic Com­mis­sion for Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean (UN-ECLAC) is one of the five region­al com­mis­sions of the Unit­ed Nations estab­lished by the Eco­nom­ic and Social Coun­cil Res­o­lu­tion 106(VI) of 25 Feb­ru­ary 1948.  ECLAC’s man­date is to con­tribute to the eco­nom­ic and social devel­op­ment of Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean and to under­take activ­i­ties relat­ed to pro­duc­tion, pro­duc­tiv­i­ty and man­age­ment, inter­na­tion­al trade and inte­gra­tion, eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment, social devel­op­ment, sus­tain­able devel­op­ment and human set­tle­ments, and nat­ur­al resources and infra­struc­ture, among oth­er issues.  ECLAC’s mis­sion is to rein­force the eco­nom­ic and social ties among coun­tries in Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean and that of the region with oth­er economies around the world. The 2030 Agen­da places peo­ple at its core and aims to achieve a rights-based sus­tain­able devel­op­ment under a renewed glob­al part­ner­ship. Pover­ty erad­i­ca­tion and address­ing inequal­i­ties are cen­tral in the new Agen­da, and are key pri­or­i­ties for Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean. ECLAC brings to EPOG its skills in devel­op­ment eco­nom­ics and its deep knowl­edge of South and Cen­tral America.

    The Inter­na­tion­al Insti­tute for Applied Sys­tems Analy­sis (IIASA) has been found­ed in 1972. It is an inter­na­tion­al sci­en­tif­ic insti­tute that con­ducts pol­i­cy-ori­ent­ed research into prob­lems that are too large or com­plex to be solved by a sin­gle coun­try or aca­d­e­m­ic dis­ci­pline. Prob­lems like cli­mate change that have a glob­al reach and can be resolved only by inter­na­tion­al coop­er­a­tive action; or prob­lems of com­mon con­cern that need to be addressed at both the nation­al and inter­na­tion­al lev­el, such as ener­gy and cli­mate change, pop­u­la­tion aging, and sus­tain­able devel­op­ment. Fund­ed by research fund­ing agen­cies in Africa, the Amer­i­c­as, Asia, and Europe, IIASA is inde­pen­dent and uncon­strained by polit­i­cal or nation­al self-inter­est. The IIASA mis­sion is to pro­vide insights and guid­ance to pol­i­cy­mak­ers world­wide by find­ing solu­tions to glob­al and uni­ver­sal prob­lems through applied sys­tems analy­sis in order to improve human and social well­be­ing and pro­tect the envi­ron­ment. As such IIASA has a long track record in offer­ing sci­ence-based deci­sion sup­port. Near­ly 400 math­e­mati­cians, social sci­en­tists, nat­ur­al sci­en­tists, econ­o­mists, and engi­neers from 50countries car­ry out research at IIASA in Aus­tria, at the heart of Europe. These range from world-renowned scholars—six Nobel Prize lau­re­ates have worked at IIASA—to young sci­en­tists just embark­ing on their careers.

    Foundations

    Logo INET

    The Insti­tute for New Eco­nom­ic Think­ing (INET) is a non­par­ti­san, non­prof­it orga­ni­za­tion devot­ed to devel­op­ing and shar­ing the ideas that can repair the econ­o­my, in the wake of finan­cial cri­sis of 2009, and cre­ate a more equal, pros­per­ous, and just soci­ety. The INET con­duct and com­mis­sion research, con­vene forums for exchang­ing ideas, devel­op cur­ric­u­la, and nur­ture a glob­al com­mu­ni­ty of young schol­ars to meet cur­rent and future chal­lenges. One of the main objec­tives of the INET is to build a glob­al com­mu­ni­ty of new eco­nom­ic thinkers through their grantees and research net­works, part­ner­ships with lead­ing uni­ver­si­ties and insti­tu­tions, high-pro­file events, and grow­ing stu­dent move­ments. Their works are ground­ed in his­to­ry and are mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary. INET researchers’ start from the prin­ci­ple that com­plex­i­ty and uncer­tain­ty are inher­ent in eco­nom­ic and finan­cial sys­tems, and they ques­tion the­o­ries based upon the flawed assump­tion that humans always behave ratio­nal­ly and pre­dictably. The top­ics addressed by INET are high­ly rel­e­vant with all those taught in the EPOG pro­gramme: the rela­tion­ship between finance and the broad­er econ­o­my, inequal­i­ty and dis­tri­b­u­tion, the eco­nom­ics of inno­va­tion, and envi­ron­ment and resource sustainability.

    Professional networks

    RIPESS

    The Inter­con­ti­nen­tal net­work for the pro­mo­tion of social sol­i­dar­i­ty econ­o­my (RIPESS) includes actors and net­works from every con­ti­nent. It coor­di­nates the pro­mo­tion of social sol­i­dar­i­ty econ­o­my (SSE) prac­tices, poli­cies and cul­ture around the world, through its mem­ber net­works and organ­i­sa­tions. The inher­ent nature of RIPESS includes the objec­tive of con­tribut­ing to sys­temic, trans­for­ma­tive change. It does this by demon­strat­ing how much SSE con­tributes in terms of real answers at local lev­el to the exist­ing sys­tem that is clear­ly show­ing its lim­its. RIPESS mem­bers believe in the impor­tance of the glob­al­i­sa­tion of sol­i­dar­i­ty, and the abil­i­ty to build and strength­en an econ­o­my that places peo­ple and plan­et at the cen­tre of its activ­i­ties. RIPESS Europe – its Euro­pean con­ti­nen­tal net­work — includes 40 sec­to­r­i­al, nation­al and inter-sec­to­r­i­al net­works in 16 coun­tries. The net­work gath­ers thou­sands of SSE stake­hold­ers and orga­ni­za­tions at the Euro­pean lev­el, facil­i­tat­ing net­work inter-coop­er­a­tion, aware­ness rais­ing, peer-train­ing and com­mon advo­ca­cy. The Euro­pean team is a coor­di­na­tion of rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the net­works and is not dis­trib­uted in sev­er­al coun­tries. At the aca­d­e­m­ic lev­el, RIPESS has con­nec­tions with many uni­ver­si­ties who have Master’s or PhD pro­grammes on SSE, also through the RIUESS (the inter-uni­ver­si­ty net­work pro­mot­ing SSE), as well as with stu­dent organ­i­sa­tions. RIPESS allows EPOG to access firms and organ­i­sa­tions world­wide cov­er­ing all the dimen­sions of the pro­gramme but with the per­spec­tive of the SSE.

    TheAIR­net (Aca­d­e­m­ic-Indus­try Research net­work) is a not-for-prof­it research orga­ni­za­tion devot­ed to the propo­si­tion that a sound under­stand­ing of the dynam­ics of indus­tri­al devel­op­ment requires col­lab­o­ra­tion between aca­d­e­m­ic schol­ars and indus­try experts. TheAIR­net engages in up-to-date, in-depth, and inci­sive research and com­men­tary on issues relat­ed to indus­tri­al inno­va­tion and eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment in order to under­stand the ways in which, through inno­va­tion, busi­ness­es and gov­ern­ments can con­tribute to equi­table and sta­ble eco­nom­ic. As a research orga­ni­za­tion, it per­forms sys­tem­at­ic schol­ar­ly research. The fund­ing for their research comes from pub­lic and pri­vate agen­cies that seek con­tri­bu­tions to knowl­edge about how and under what con­di­tions the oper­a­tion of the econ­o­my can result in sta­ble and equi­table growth – and what can be done to reform its oper­a­tion when it does not. TheAIR­net brings an exper­tise to EPOG in the fields of inno­va­tion and uni­ver­si­ty-indus­try relations.

    Trade unions

    The Euro­pean Trade Union Insti­tute (ETUI) is the inde­pen­dent research and train­ing cen­tre of the Euro­pean Trade Union Con­fed­er­a­tion (ETUC). It is a non-prof­it inter­na­tion­al asso­ci­a­tion who received receives finan­cial sup­port from the Euro­pean Union. The ETUI con­ducts stud­ies on socio-eco­nom­ic top­ics and indus­tri­al rela­tions and mon­i­tors Euro­pean pol­i­cy devel­op­ments of strate­gic impor­tance for the world of labour. The over­all pur­pose of ETUC is to sup­port social dia­logue and pro­mote a social Europe. To sup­port, strength­en and stim­u­late the Euro­pean trade union move­ment, the ETUI pro­vides inde­pen­dent fact-based analy­sis and orig­i­nal research on issues of impor­tance for the social dimen­sion of Europe. The ETUI con­ducts stud­ies and research­es on macro­eco­nom­ics and social poli­cies in Europe, indus­tri­al rela­tions and health and safe­ty at work in Europe. It cre­ates bridges between the aca­d­e­m­ic sphere, the world of research and the trade union move­ment in order to encour­age inde­pen­dent research on top­ics of deci­sive rel­e­vance to the world of labour. It pro­vides the ETUC and its affil­i­ates with pro­grammes and exchanges that strength­en the Euro­pean trade union iden­ti­ty. The ETUI pro­vides tech­ni­cal assis­tance in the field of health and safe­ty with a view to achiev­ing a high lev­el of occu­pa­tion­al health and safe­ty pro­tec­tion for work­ers through­out Europe. The ETUI research’s allows link­ing sev­er­al themes that are treat­ed with­in the EPOG pro­gramme: the analy­sis of eco­nom­ic cri­sis and socioe­co­nom­ic tran­si­tion, the sus­tain­able devel­op­ment, the indus­tri­al pol­i­cy and dig­i­tal tran­si­tion, the analy­sis of labour mar­ket and the future of the EU.

    Non-governmental organisations (NGOs)

    FIAN Inter­na­tion­al is a glob­al human rights orga­ni­za­tion that advo­cates for the right to ade­quate food and nutri­tion. Its vision is a world free from hunger and mal­nu­tri­tion, in which every per­son ful­ly enjoys all human rights in dig­ni­ty and self-deter­mi­na­tion. Since it was found­ed in 1986, FIAN Inter­na­tion­al has been sup­port­ing grass­roots com­mu­ni­ties and move­ments in their strug­gles against right to food vio­la­tions. Through its nation­al sec­tions and net­works, FIAN works in over 50 coun­tries around the world. FIAN expos­es injus­tice behind our food sys­tems, from grow­ing and har­vest­ing to pro­cure­ment. FIAN advo­cates for an egal­i­tar­i­an dis­tri­b­u­tion of resources, so peo­ple can feed them­selves and don’t depend on char­i­ty. FIAN works with a wide net­work of social move­ments and civ­il soci­ety actors around the world con­tribut­ing to bring and ampli­fy their voic­es in deci­sion-mak­ing bod­ies. FIAN encour­ages the mobi­liza­tion and orga­ni­za­tion of peo­ple who want to change the world.


    The pro­gramme has received the sup­port of the “Hauts-de-France” region.

    The pro­gramme has received sup­port from the French-Ital­ian Uni­ver­si­ty with the Vin­ci Grant.

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