Regulating the future - the EU and the Sustainable Development Goals
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- 1.Fundamentals of EU policy shaping
- 2.The EU’s role in the global SDG agenda: leadership and delivery
- 3.Internal EU policies: European climate regime
- 4.Internal EU policies: European digital policy
- 5.External policies: SDG-proofing EU trade policy
- 6.Tracking EU policy-making in practice
- 7.Providing policy advice
Description of outcome - Knowledge
- Understand the significance of EU policy-making for domestic and global politics
- Understand how EU policies are made and the forces that shape them, including technological development
Description of outcome - Skills
Description of outcome - Competences
- Learn to consider critical 21st challenges from different disciplinary perspectives; and learn to use interdisciplinary, multinational, and innovation-oriented teaching situations constructively.
Literature
Examples:
Michelle Cini and Nieves Pérez-Solórzano Borragán, eds., European Union Politics, latest edition (6th).
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The course has a duration of 2 weeks: 3 August - 14 August 2020
Week 1: 15 hours of class teaching
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Exam: Policy advice paper
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1 student: 6 pages
2 or 3 students: 12 pages
1 page: 2.400 keystrokes per page, excluding title page, literature, and appendixes.
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The policy advice paper to be submitted must focus on a real-life EU policy-making decision. The objective of the paper is to step into the shoes of a protagonist’ (policy-maker, stakeholder, societal group, citizen, etc) facing the critical ‘what would you do next’ question.
Regarding re-examination during the same examination period:
The student(s) will be given the opportunity to modify their assignment from the ordinary examination. In this case, the assignment must include a paragraph taking into account and explaining the changes made to the version that was handed in for the ordinary examination. This paragraph is not included in the maximum number of pages.