The Kuwait Program at Sciences Po is a cooperative agreement between the Kuwait Foundation and the Fondation Nationale Des Sciences Politiques (Sciences Po).

Both institutions are working together to offer a program that provides new approaches and fresh ideas to concerned leaders, senior officials, academics and researchers, in the face of unforeseen change related to security issues, sustainable development and environmental risks, migration trends, the shifting of public policies from domestic to global levels and building a public private partnership. The Program is based on the expertise and the knowledge developed through the making of Europe and the roles of Sciences Po as a leading French university with a global outreach.

Agreement Period

 Five years (2007 – 2012)

About Sciences Po

For over one hundred years, Sciences Po, a leading university for teaching and research in the social sciences, has been training the best young minds for positions of leadership.  As one of Europe's most competitive universities, Sciences Po prepares its graduates to take their place in international business, multilateral organizations, positions of public responsibility, and other fields of endeavor. Students are drawn to Sciences Po for its commitment to understanding the contemporary world through a multidisciplinary grounding in the social sciences.  International students in particular stand to benefit not only from the solid training of the core curriculum, but also from Sciences Po's pedagogical approach, based on constructing concise, convincing and well-structured arguments. At Sciences Po, students are encouraged to develop critical perspective, self-awareness and greater reserves of both intellectual and moral courage. The solid intellectual foundation of their Sciences Po education will allow graduates to assume high-level responsibilities and meet the challenges of a globalise world.

Sciences Po at a glance

• Around 1,400 instructors, academics, and professionals from the business world, public administration and international organizations and thousands of students from undergraduates to the doctoral level from over 55 countries and 250 full-time researchers and faculty members.

• The richest humanities and social sciences library in continental Europe: 920,000 volumes of books, newspapers, and reviews in multi-languages.

• An active University press: “les Presses de Sciences Po” releases 30 new publications each year, along with six academic journals of international standing and readership.

Components of the Program

• The Kuwait Eurogolfe Professorship at Sciences Po – It is focused on but not limited to topics of relevance to Kuwait and the Gulf under relationship to Europe e.g. global public policy, political economy, the geopolitics of energy, security, economic diversification and enhancement of the private sector, civil society building, the role of religion and international relations.  In addition to his teaching requirements, the Kuwait Professor will play an active role in the Kuwait Program at Sciences Po, including the organization of the intellectual exchange between European academic and the Gulf counterparts, particularly Kuwaitis.

• The Kuwait Eurogolfe Research Program – will support advanced research on the Gulf and its relationship to Europe, taking advantage both of the existing knowledge and expertise developed at Sciences Po and the Eurogolfe Network. The Kuwait Eurogolfe Research Program will provide:

• Research Grants and scholarships for research initiatives conducted on the Gulf and the Middle East, in the fields of Economics, Energy, Security, Political Science, International Relations, Sociology, Contemporary History and Law.
• Resources for conferences, seminars and workshops related to the field of research of the Program.

• The Global Public Policy Fellowships and Executive Training Program – is aimed at providing Professionals and top Executives with the latest developments of public policy expertise.  It also provides opportunities for young academics and researchers from the Gulf and Europe for short term training and research fellowships at Sciences Po and Kuwait and Gulf universities.  Its originality is to focus the dimension of public decision and public leadership within the challenges of Globalization and the new public private partnerships.

 The program will be organized with two dimensions:

• Fellowships and visiting scholars for a short period up to three months.
• Customized Executive Training Programs – designed for a limited number of senior Kuwait and Gulf Leaders to give them access to the European dimension of decision making and policy building.  Programs will include public management skills, negotiation and conflict resolution, project management, communication skills, finance and budgeting.

• Enhancement of the Menton Program, Leaders for Tomorrow – Since October 2005, Sciences Po has set up a campus in Menton (French Riviera) and established a program for youth where its curriculum is taught in Arabic, French and English. The Kuwait Program at Sciences Po supports the development of specialized courses at the campus related to Gulf studies. It also supports the Arabic section (collections) of the campus library, as well as short term visiting lecturers from Kuwait and the Gulf.

Website: http://kuwaitprogram.sciences-po.fr/