Message from the Director
The relation between Sciences Po and the Americas, with its rich and diverse higher education system, is unique in France and perhaps in Europe.
Students at Sciences Po from the American continent are now the first national group after the French, and just before the Germans. Around 300 of Sciences Po’s undergraduates routinely spend their junior year at a partner university in the US, Canada or Latin America.
Qualitatively speaking, this special relation is even more remarkable: with solid and growing joint programs, dual Master and PhD degrees in areas as diverse as business law, international affairs, and sustainable development, with vibrant joint conferences, research projects and visiting professorships, Sciences Po can rightly be described as a university engaged in an intense and multifaceted dialogue and collaboration with the American continent.
This situation is the result of Sciences Po’s innovative strategy since the mid 1990’s to resolutely engage first with American universities in a context of globalizing competition in higher education. The former American Center was inaugurated in 2000 with the mission to impulse, accompany and coordinate Sciences Po’s growing collaborations with the United States, and to better prepare our graduates, professors and researchers to work and publish in a global context largely shaped by US universities and academic journals. Through the Alliance Program, the former American Center, since 2002, also expanded the scope of its transatlantic collaborations beyond the social sciences and allowed their different facets to play in full.
Besides, this special “American connection” has allowed Sciences Po to build strategic partnerships leading to the emergence of key global partnerships. This is in particular the case with the Global Public Policy Network: emerging from the collaboration between Columbia University, the London School of Economics and Sciences Po, this partnership is expanding worldwide and particularly in China with the university of Beijing, where the four schools jointly launched in the summer 2006 their first executive education initiative.
Today, the Center for the Americas is not limiting its vision and action to the United States, but deals with the whole Continent and is actively engaging in an ambitious academic and scientific cooperation worldwide in close partnership with universities from North and South America.
Students at Sciences Po from the American continent are now the first national group after the French, and just before the Germans. Around 300 of Sciences Po’s undergraduates routinely spend their junior year at a partner university in the US, Canada or Latin America.
Qualitatively speaking, this special relation is even more remarkable: with solid and growing joint programs, dual Master and PhD degrees in areas as diverse as business law, international affairs, and sustainable development, with vibrant joint conferences, research projects and visiting professorships, Sciences Po can rightly be described as a university engaged in an intense and multifaceted dialogue and collaboration with the American continent.
This situation is the result of Sciences Po’s innovative strategy since the mid 1990’s to resolutely engage first with American universities in a context of globalizing competition in higher education. The former American Center was inaugurated in 2000 with the mission to impulse, accompany and coordinate Sciences Po’s growing collaborations with the United States, and to better prepare our graduates, professors and researchers to work and publish in a global context largely shaped by US universities and academic journals. Through the Alliance Program, the former American Center, since 2002, also expanded the scope of its transatlantic collaborations beyond the social sciences and allowed their different facets to play in full.
Besides, this special “American connection” has allowed Sciences Po to build strategic partnerships leading to the emergence of key global partnerships. This is in particular the case with the Global Public Policy Network: emerging from the collaboration between Columbia University, the London School of Economics and Sciences Po, this partnership is expanding worldwide and particularly in China with the university of Beijing, where the four schools jointly launched in the summer 2006 their first executive education initiative.
Today, the Center for the Americas is not limiting its vision and action to the United States, but deals with the whole Continent and is actively engaging in an ambitious academic and scientific cooperation worldwide in close partnership with universities from North and South America.