International Cooperation

Germany and France - Cooperation with Sciences Po Paris

 
Culminating many years of collaboration in research and teaching between the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG) in Cologne and Sciences Po in Paris, the Max Planck Sciences Po Center on Coping with Instability in Market Societies (MaxPo) opened its doors in fall 2012. In jointly founding the Center, the MPIfG and Sciences Po are taking a major step toward working together more closely.
 
Sciences Po is the leading social science university in France. Its nine interdisciplinary and internationally oriented research centers do research in the social and political sciences, economics, history, and law.
 
The Institute's cooperation with Sciences Po involves

• research cooperation at MaxPo,
• a joint doctoral program (Cotutelle),
• a Summer School for doctoral students,
• an international exchange program for doctoral students and researchers,
• joint seminars and workshops at regular intervals.

Sciences Po is one of the international partner institutions of the institute's doctoral program, the International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy (IMPRS-SPCE).
 

 

Partner Institutions of the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS-SPCE)

 
Given the international character of research in comparative political economy, economic sociology and organization studies, international cooperation is crucial. The International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy (IMPRS-SPCE), the joint international PhD program of the MPIfG and the Department of Management, Economics and Social Sciences of the University of Cologne, enables fellows to spend six months at an American, French or Italian partner institution or another academic institution abroad in order to gather international experience and develop their work in an international context. The IMPRS-SPCE also hosts PhD students from abroad, creating further opportunities for fellows to develop their skills and networks.
 

 
USA

• Columbia University:
  Department of Sociology
  

 

• Northwestern University:
  Department of Political Science
  Department of Sociology

 
France

• Sciences Po Paris:
  Centre d'Études Européennes (CEE)
  Centre de Sociologie des Organisations (CSO)

 
Italy

• European University Institute (EUI):
  Department of Political and Social Sciences

 

International Partner Institutions of the MPIfG

 
The MPIfG considers international cooperation to be the most productive organizational form of comparative research. Many visiting researchers make valuable contributions to its research program. The MPIfG is part of a worldwide network of research institutions and researchers in the social sciences. It cooperates closely with several research institutes abroad, including:

• Sciences Po in Paris and its affiliated institutes, such as the Centre d'Etudes Européennes (CEE), Centre de Sociologie des Organisations (CSO) and Centre d'Études et de Recherches Internationales (CERI). The Max Planck Sciences Po Center on Coping with Instability in Market Societies (MaxPo), which is run jointly by Sciences Po and MPIfG
• CEPREMAP (Centre pour la recherche économique et ses applications) in Paris
• Center for European Studies and Department of Sociology at Harvard University
• Institute for Policy Research and Departments of Sociology and Political Science at Northwestern University in Evanston
• Graduate School in Political, Economic and Social Sciences at the Università degli Studi di Milano
• Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Florence
• Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS)
• Department of Political Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)