Development and International Cooperation Sciences

Educational objectives

The aim of the course is to provide the basic knowledge for the analysis and understanding of the evolution of the international political system since the 1840s, focusing on colonialism, decolonization, and globalization. Through the study of these topics students will be able to acquire the knowledge and the interpretative skills necessary to understand the main dynamics of history of international relations and the globalization process. The inclusion of on-going audits in the form of short presentations and discussions by the students will also provide the necessary critical elements and a concrete capacity for analysis.

Educational objectives

The course aims to provide knowledge and understanding of the methodological, critical and applicable aspects of the Discipline, with a particular focus on the impact of the globalization; it proposes geographical areas and sectorial perspectives in which related projects are activated; it shows the variability of fields of interest; it enables the student to master the specific topics in order to use them and apply them in other fields of study while using the correct specific language. With the acquired knowledge the student will be able to develop autonomous ability of connections with other disciplines in the various historical ages and cultural contexts.

Educational objectives

Studying and promoting the knowledge and protection of new generation human rights resulting from the advent of new technologies. Students who have passed the exam must have acquired the knowledge and skills necessary to identify the most appropriate legal solutions to the stresses emerging from the bioethical, bioeconomic and biopolitical debate and, if necessary, the ability to propose coherent operational and organizational tools with the solutions identified.

Educational objectives

The course aims at providing students with the knowledge that is necessary to comprehend the structure of the European Union and the functioning of its institutions, scope and effects of the EU legal sources with particular regard to the protection of fundamental rights in the external dimension of the Union’s action in the perspective of sustainable development. The course is based on the method of legal analysis of institutions, normative acts and procedures.
Students will acquire the skills necessary to read and comprehend EU legal acts and European Court of Justice judgments and opinions, as well as national legislative and judiciary acts. Moreover, they will be able to apply the acquired skills in the context of future legal research as well as in the context of professional activities.
The acquired skills will enable students to critically analyze the EU policies and reach conclusions in autonomy on the basis of a rigorous application of the scientific method of legal analysis.
The constant involvement of students during classes, including through the possibility to present individual or group researches on specific topics and the participation in discussions will develop the students’ communication skills.
The course aims at supporting students in developing a proper study method, which will enable them to address, analyze and learn complex matters.

Educational objectives

MODELLI DI FEDERALISMO E COSTITUZIONALISMO MULTILIVELLO
The course aims to provide tools for understanding through the categories of public law phenomena of growing supranational interdependence. The various models of federalism that are being developed and deepened in the context of the more general phenomenon of economic globalization will therefore be analyzed.

It is also proposed to address the question of the role of constitutionalism in the face of these phenomena.

Students will be able to understand Comparative Public and European Union Law also from a multilevel perspective.

Students will be able to read and understand a regulatory text or a judicial ruling, as well as to resolve the legal issues underlying these acts in their essential elements.

Students will develop independent judgment skills, from a historical, theoretical, critical, comparative and practical perspective on Comparative Public and European Union Law.

Students will develop the aptitude for legal reasoning and the ability to argue about Comparative Public and European Union Law.

Students will be able to continue their studies and professional life thanks to the knowledge of Comparative Public and European Union Law.

DIRITTO DELL'IMMIGRAZIONE
Students will be able to understand Italian immigration law also from a multilevel perspective.
Students will be able to read and understand a regulatory text, a judicial ruling or an administrative provision in the field of immigration law, as well as to resolve the legal issues underlying these acts in their essential elements.
Students will develop independent judgment skills, from a historical, theoretical, critical, comparative and practical perspective on Italian immigration law.
Students will develop the aptitude for legal reasoning and the ability to argue about Italian immigration law.
Students will be able to continue their studies and professional life thanks to the knowledge of Italian immigration law.

Educational objectives

Goals
The main objective of the course is to provide an advanced competence of the political processes. The course will dedicate a specific part to the relationship between systems of expertise and politics, in a comparative perspective.
Knowledge and abilities
Students will be able to understand the functioning of different political systems, with particular attention to the functioning of parties, institutions, and interest groups.
Ability to apply knowledge and understanding
The student will be enabled to understand the provision of the various political regimes: democratic, authoritarian, totalitarian. Political dynamics related to processes and contemporary politics.
Autonomy of judgment
The student must possess the fundamental skills that allow him/her to analyze, in an autonomous and critical way, the decision-making process and the functioning of the institutions.
Communication skills
The essential objective is to build specialized communication skills in the field of political science, which facilitate the professionalization of the student's skills.
Learning ability
Learning skills will be developed and tested on different levels: through interaction with the class and the teacher, experts in the field, construction of reports and presentations in the classroom.
Expected results
The goal is to create the first knowledge that can be spent at institutions, political parties and interest groups.

Educational objectives

The main goal of the course is to provide students with tools and knowledge to understand and manage humanitarian, risk and emergency communication in the context of governmental and non-governmental agencies and organisations, both in Italy and abroad. The course aims to frame issues and subjects within a sound and effective theoretical, methodological and empirical framework.
Knowledge and understanding: the first goal of the course is to provide basic knowledge and skills related to humanitarian, risk and emergency communication.
Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: The second goal of the course is to identify and provide the practical skills to set up, to implement and to assess communication strategies, projects or campaigns in the three mentioned areas by considering criteria, best practices and empirical research evidence at national and international level.
Autonomy of judgement: the third goal of the course is to improve individual and group ability to autonomously and self-reflectively analyse issues, approaches and case studies as presented in proposed books and class lectures.
Communication skills: The course aims at developing practical communication skills on topics and research on the issues discussed during the course.
Learning skills: lessons and practical exercises are aimed at transmitting the students’ ability to autonomously orientate their own educational career, as to study, deepen and critically review study materials and outcomes of related activities.

Knowledge and skills to be acquired:
At the end of the course the student:
- knows the foundations of humanitarian, risk and emergency communication, their development in Italy as well as in the international context;
- knows operational criteria, languages and tools being used in each of the mentioned areas and is able to apply to concrete situations;
- knows methods and techniques to assess the effectiveness of communication strategies, projects or campaigns in each of the mentioned areas.

Educational objectives

SISTEMI POLITICI COMPARATI
The student will deepen his / her knowledge of the political actors and of the main western democratic political systems, in a comparative key.
At the end of the course, the student can more easily classify the democratic systems on the basis of the characteristics that distinguish the consensual systems and the Westminister systems.
Through the frequent opportunities for discussion and debate in the classroom, the student will consolidate his capacity for independent and critical judgment.
Thanks to the frequent opportunities for comparison and critical debate, the student has a not easy public-speaking exercise.
The instrument of the comparison between the political systems enables the student to understand the very heterogeneous dynamics present in the international forum and to orientate himself more easily in study and understanding.

LABORATORIO DELLA COOPERAZIONE ITALIANA
The educational objective of the course is to provide to the students the knowledge and tools to operate in the world of cooperation through the definition of programs and development projects

Educational objectives

Knowledge and understanding: Students will be able to understand the relationships between population dynamics and economic development and of the differences in demographic behavior between advanced and developing countries; to this end they will have knowledge of policies adopted and statistical data, local, national and international related to population structure and movement; mortality and health; fertility and reproductive health; and migration.
Applying knowledge and understanding: students will be able to use the theories and methods that explain the relationships between population dynamics and economic development and the differences in demographic behavior between advanced and developing countries.
students will be able to use statistical methods and data at local, national and international level, for
Making judgement: students will develop an autonomous judgment capability on a theoretical and practical perspective, on the population dynamics.
Communication skills: students will develop an attitude for demographic reasoning and the capacity for argumentation on the population dynamics.
Learning skills: students will be able to deal with other subjects of the statistic and demographic field thanks to the basic notions of population dynamics.

Educational objectives

The main aim of the course is to overwiev the causes and consequences of population change in historical and comparative perspective and to gain an understanding of their interrelation with the main underlying economic and social dynamics.

Educational objectives

General goals
Learning capacity to analyze European and Western history of political culture, focussing on the idea of progress, civilization and colonialism, and its racist roots, and also the relationship with “otherness” as the necessary elements to understand contemporary world, its global relations, the principles underlying contact between people and human beings, and the forms of international cooperation.

Specific goals
In detail, according to the Dublin descriptors, the student will acquire the following knowledge and skills:

A) Knowledge and understanding
The student will be able to acquire knowledge and understanding of the historical role of colonization, and the different ways of building relationships with the ‘other', in the past as in the present.

B) Ability to apply knowledge and understanding
The student will be able to question and understand - in particular in social relations and in the activity of cooperation - the different forms to relate to 'other' and to propose solutions in work contexts.

C) Autonomy of judgment
The student will be able to manage the complexity of the processes as well as to formulate judgments and possible sustainable solutions, even in the presence of limited or incomplete information. Another element acquired will concern the ability to reflect on individual and collective responsibilities as well as ethics linked to the application of certain knowledge and judgments.

D) Communication skills
He will learn to communicate knowledge related to the understanding of the human and social contexts where he will act.

E) Learning skills
The student will be able to autonomously understand the state-of-the-art of problems. He will also be able to design and develop projects, starting from theoretical and historical skills acquired.

Educational objectives

Addressed to International Cooperation master students, this course aims to: 1) analyze the main discourses that characterized the self-narration that Europeans (and, since XIX century, also “Americans”) built on their hegemonic world-action after 1492; 2) deepen postcolonial and decolonial discourses, focusing on the use of concepts such as civilization, colonization, sovereignty, hegemony, nationalism, barbarism, identity, etc.; 3) teach students to recognize “colonial”, “post-colonial” and “de-colonial” narrations as products of specific context(s) marked by peculiar conflicts and 4) introduce critically students to “geopolitics of knowledge”, analyzing concepts such as The East, the West, Europe, Asia, America, Latin-America, ecc.

Educational objectives

The course provides advanced knowledge on the theoretical and applied links between international economic policy and living conditions in developing countries. This includes an applied understanding of the models and tools of international economic policy, notions of impact evaluation of development policies and programs, and a deep understanding of the most relevant contemporary debates in the fields of sustainable development, food and nutrition security and international economic cooperation.

Educational objectives

The course provides advanced knowledge on the theoretical and applied links between international economic policy and living conditions in developing countries. This includes an applied understanding of the models and tools of international economic policy, notions of impact evaluation of development policies and programs, and a deep understanding of the most relevant contemporary debates in the fields of sustainable development, food and nutrition security and international economic cooperation.

Educational objectives

- critical mastery of the economic and political terminologies inherent to
current dimension of "development"
- knowledge of the critical literature on growth and de-growth
- ability to identify "cultural" components in "development"
- ability to know and use essential elements for setting up a development project
- ability to know and to use ethnographic fieldwork procedures in "development"

Educational objectives

Students will be able to:

understand the historical relatioship between colonialism,development and globalization
have developed a critical perspective about development and the main concepts of the Anthropology
understand the work against poverty of bilateral and multilateral institutions of international development.

Educational objectives

General objectives
The Course aims to set and analyse the theoretical models and the methodological tools for the comprehension and the application of the social policies to the international cooperation politics for the development.

Specific objectives
Some specific analysis will pertain the evolution and the dynamic processes of the social policies for their application to the similar settings of the cooperation politics. In order to analyse the social policies through the main goals of the cooperation will be supplied multidisciplinary cognitive tools (sociological, economical historical political etc.) to allow students to develop specific skills for their application.

The first goal of the Course (Dublin Descriptor 1) is to train students to keep active roles and responsibilities in the field of the cooperation. They can acquire basic and advanced knowledges and strategical competencies for operating in international contexts, especially for the protection of the rights and social planning policies.
For the second goal (Dublin Descriptor 2), attention will be paid for the development of skills in the application of the social policies objectives in different social and cultural contexts, in projects and arrangements thanks to the knowledge of concepts and methods to analyse the cultural diversity.
To achieve the third goal (Dublin Descriptor 3), the written, practical and oral tests will allow to verify the level of theoretical and methodological knowledge of the students and their skill to apply them in decision making and planning roles for the social policies in the cooperation.
The practical and oral tests – made during the classes in favor of the mates, will allow also to verify the ability to communicate what the students know about the previous object of the Course, as the fourth goal sets (Dublin Descriptor 4).
For the fifth last goal (Dublin Descriptor 5), the supply of a wide range of document sources and the knowledge of analytical and applicative methodologies permit students to lead detailed and up-to-date studies autonomously after the end of the training.

Educational objectives

GENERAL EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES
The course aims to provide students with the necessary theoretical and conceptual tools of Sociology of politics, applied in particular to Islam and the Muslim world. These tools will be useful to read the characteristics and changes of Islam not only as a religious and cultural reference but also as a global player, in reference to the system and other political actors, the themes of secularization and secularism, the characteristics and role of religions and Islam in the Muslim as well in Europe.

SPECIFIC EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES
At the end of the course, students will know and comprehend the key concepts of political sociology applied to Islam and the Muslim world; applying this knowledge, they will be able to decode some of the phenomena that affect the organizations and political actors of the Muslim world, with reference also to the theme of secularism and the role of religious identities in the globalized world. They will also be able to read such phenomena also with reference to the role of communication in the dynamics of change in the contemporary political scenario, to fundamentalisms, to the cultural and religious dimension intersected with global economic dynamics. of the market in the global context. Another specific objective of the course is the ability to analyse and reflect autonomously on the contents of the texts and on the topics dealt with in class, which will be subjected to reflection and common discussion in the classroom, thus developing critical skills andautonomous judgment.

Educational objectives

1. Knowledge / understanding:
The student will study the main theories of evaluative research.

2. Ability to apply it:
The student will acquire the tools to better understand the context of development cooperation in its application aspects.

3. Critical and judgment skills:
The student will be able to develop critical and judgment skills by organizing discussion forums in the classroom, with cooperation scholars and assessment experts.

4. Ability to communicate knowledge:
Communication skills will be expressed in the organization of study groups for the preparation of papers that will be presented in the classroom and will be the subject of debates among students.

5. Ability to continue the study independently:
At the end of the course, the student will be able to study in depth the topics analyzed, being able to apply them in the operational contexts of development cooperation.

Educational objectives

A) Knowledge and understanding
Knowing and understanding the basic elements of Euro-Latin American relations through the lens of the migratory phenomena present in modern and contemporary history and through the forms of development cooperation inherent in the relations between the two regions.

B) Ability to apply knowledge and understanding
Knowing how to apply the knowledge and understanding of the various facets of relations between Europe and Latin America, to emerging and topical phenomena involving the two geographical areas.

C) Making judgments
Being able to identify and collect additional information to achieve greater awareness of the phenomena studied in order to know how to take initiatives and decisions on any projects, studies / research and programs that affect bi-regional relations.

D) Communication skills
Knowing how to communicate information and ideas effectively, as well as discussing problems and solutions of the various issues concerning bi-regional relations. Knowing how to choose the appropriate form and means of communication to the interlocutor, both specialist and non-specialist, where to present one's research or research work.

E) Learning skills
Have the ability to draw on different bibliographic sources and data sources present both in Europe and Latin America and therefore use the Italian and Spanish language, in order to deepen the topics of greatest interest and to acquire new skills in the field of relationships bi-regional.

Educational objectives

The aim of the course will be to provide the methodological tools of geography and geopolitics that are indispensable for the critical understanding of relations between countries in the North and countries in the South of the world. In particular, through specially identified practical cases, the political and cultural assumptions implicit in each domain relationship will be problematized.

Moreover, the new political spaces that take shape in non-western areas will be discussed, which, beyond the usual dominant / dominated dichotomy, experiment with innovative formulas of autonomy and independence.

It is realistically expected that at the end of the course the student will be able to use more relevant theoretical references for autonomous and critical reflection on the problem of North-South relations.

Educational objectives

Course aims and intended learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student will be able to: 1. demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the fundamental historical features of the region; 2. master the critical essential tools for the analysis of the history, the institutions and the socio-cultural processes within MENA countries; 3. understand the historical roots of the religious and political-cultural peculiarity of the MENA region as well as the formulation of their practices along both shores of the Mediterranean basin; 4. acquire the basic knowledge to understand contemporary challenges in the Mediterranean area such as radical Islamism, the crisis of the nation-state, the process of democratization, authoritarianism and the role of the army.

The student will be able to: 1. formulate critical observations on the development of the political, social and cultural institutions of the countries analyzed; 2. apply a critically use of journalistic and multimedia sources, in addition to secondary sources and update literature; 3. formulate a critical historically-base assessment on the deep roots of political and social change in the Middle East and North Africa.

Throughout the study of the general history of MENA region and a comparative analysis of the history of its countries, the student will be able to improve his/her understanding of contemporary events which testify the security and stability crisis of the post-colonial Arab system within the region.

Learning skills will be stimulated with power point presentations, guided discussion, also aimed at verifying the real understanding of the covered topics. They will also be stimulated by integrative teaching supports (magazine and newspaper articles, documentaries, movies).
Throughout the acquisition of an appropriate specialist terminology and the essential tools of analysis, the student will be able to communicate, in an oral and written manner, with the society in general about his/her areas of expertise and share information, ideas and critical analysis to both specialist and non-specialist audiences.

This objective will be achieved through: 1. classroom debates; 2. seminars; 3. written reports.
At the end of the course the student will be able to: 1. apply their knowledge and understanding to specific case-studies, not analyzed during the lessons; 2. have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (usually within their field of study) to inform judgments that include reflection on relevant historical, social and political issues; 3. master the learning skills in order to develop his/her studies in a largely self-directed or autonomous manner.

Educational objectives

The course aims to introduce the student to the study of "Biotechnology", a subject that includes methodologies and technologies that allow to work on a project plan of "Sustainable Development". The aim is to analyse and deepen the research of an analysis methodology that highlights the results of the assessment of global sustainability, understood as environmental, economic and social sustainability through Life Cycle Thinking (LCT).

Educational objectives

Knowledge and understanding: students will be able to distinguish the main energy sources from non- renewable and renewable materials.
Applying knowledge and understanding: students will be able to know basic elements for analysis of energy systems with particular attention to technical, economic and environmental aspects

Making judgement: students will develop ability to assess the importance of renewable energy sources for sustainable development

Communication skills: students will develop ability to assess the effects of energy production and use on the environment
Learning skills: students will be able to evaluate the importance of. De-carbonization and diversification in energy production

Educational objectives

The course has the main objective of highlighting the importance of the role of agriculture in the dynamics of development and, therefore, of the strategic relevance of the problems (economic, social and political) of agriculture and food at a global level.

Knowledge and understanding. At the end of the course, the student will have to demonstrate to have acquired the necessary knowledge to understand the role of agriculture, for the purposes of environmental, economic and social sustainability of current development models, especially in the view to the Agenda 2030 objectives.

Applying knowledge and understanding. At the end of the course, the student will be able, both to devise and support arguments, and to solve problems and propose solutions regarding the economic and social environmental sustainability of agricultural and agri-food activities

Making judgment. At the end of the course, the student must be able to analyze and interpret the data useful for defining the role of agriculture for sustainable development.

Communication skills. At the end of the course, the student will have to demonstrate to be able to present the acquired knowledge.

Learning skills. At the end of the course, the student will have to demonstrate his ability to find the sources of information and data to undertake subsequent studies independently.

Educational objectives

The course aims to provide students with the tools that allow them to understand in a historical, theoretical and critical perspective the institutional processes related to the constitutional organization of the economy of the State and the EU. Students who pass the exam will acquire the knowledge to understand the relationship and the dynamics between constitutional law and political and monetary economy in the evolution of the form of the State. Moreover, students will be able to recognize and evaluate integration policies based on monetary policies and those implemented through rights.
At the end of the course students will have acquired the necessary skills to understand and develop, also in a critical sense, judgments and evaluations on the choices of the public policies concerning political economy, monetary policy and social policy. These skills will be developed through exercises during which students will report on judgments, legislative texts and programmatic documents. At the end of the course the students will have also acquired the ability to find autonomous jurisprudential, normative and bibliographic sources for their thesis work.

Educational objectives

In all Masters programs there are 3 cfu for internships. These credits can be obtained through an internship of at least 75 hours, carried out in public, private or non-profit companies, provided that it is:

- carried out during the Master's Degree Program (not before enrollment in the course);
- regularly activated according to the procedures established by law, for which reference should be made to the AFE site - External Training Activities. No internships will be considered without prior agreement between the University and institution where the internship is carried out;
- approved by the university tutor chosen among the tenured and non-contracted professors of the Department and by the company tutor appointed by the host organization. Both will necessarily have to sign the training project before the start of the internship and the final report at the end of the internship;
- relevant degree program, or single subjects of the curriculum.

Educational objectives

The aim of the module is to provide students with a series of tools that enable them to better face job search and post-graduate training. Students will sharpen the so-called transversal skills.

Educational objectives

In all Masters programs there are 3 cfu for internships. These credits can be obtained through an internship of at least 75 hours, carried out in public, private or non-profit companies, provided that it is:

- carried out during the Master's Degree Program (not before enrollment in the course);
- regularly activated according to the procedures established by law, for which reference should be made to the AFE site - External Training Activities. No internships will be considered without prior agreement between the University and institution where the internship is carried out;
- approved by the university tutor chosen among the tenured and non-contracted professors of the Department and by the company tutor appointed by the host organization. Both will necessarily have to sign the training project before the start of the internship and the final report at the end of the internship;
- relevant degree program, or single subjects of the curriculum.

Educational objectives

The aim of the module is to provide students with a series of tools that enable them to better face job search and post-graduate training. Students will sharpen the so-called transversal skills.

Educational objectives

The course will provide a wide and multidisciplinary vision of the relationships between international institutions and States in the contemporary age. During a first phase, particular attention will be devoted to the impact of the Enlightenment and the development of the idea of the nation, which would soon lead to the gradual decline of multinational empires and the consolidation of national states. In a second section, the course will focus on East-Central Europe analyzing the international dimension of the relationships between States and minorities, with the aim of understanding how the inter-ethnic complexity of this region has influenced the system of international relations during the twentieth century. The East/West division, in fact, could contribute to describe an interesting unified framework within which each country and each area, while following the path of the entire continent, expresses its own particular identity. The goal is to provide the basic knowledge in order to continue and deepen the study of history of international relations and of the multilevel governance dynamics among international and sovranational institutions, States and local and regional dimensions.

Educational objectives

Students will be able to:

understand the historical relatioship between colonialism,development and globalization
have developed a critical perspective about development and the main concepts of the Anthropology
understand the work against poverty of bilateral and multilateral institutions of international development.

Educational objectives

General goals
The main purpose of the course is related to the creation of an adequately in-depth knowledge, starting from an introduction to the processes of innovation, project management and sustainable management of complex project.
Designing and setting up innovative projects, verifying the design scheme will therefore represent the bases on which the Innovative technologies and sustainability course is founded.
At the end of the course the student will acquire the knowledge of the technical, economic and competitive variables and of the organizational solutions for the management of innovative projects, with particular attention to the development of new processes, products and services. Furthermore, the knowledge and operational skills relating to structures, organizational roles and specific management techniques of project management will also form part of the student's final baggage.

Specific goals
In detail, according to the Dublin descriptors, the student will acquire the following knowledge and skills:

A) Knowledge and understanding
The student will be able to acquire knowledge and understanding related to new and innovative processes and technologies and will allow the same to develop and apply new, innovative or original ideas, even in a research context.

B) Ability to apply knowledge and understanding [applying knowledge and understanding]
The student will be able to solve problems in innovative areas, inserted in interdisciplinary contexts, connected to the innovative and sustainable technologies. Therefore apply knowledge and better understand the problems present and propose solutions.

C) Autonomy of judgment [making judgments]
The student will be able to manage the complexity of the innovative processes as well as formulate judgments and possible sustainable solutions, even in the presence of limited or incomplete information. Another element acquired will concern the ability to reflect on individual and collective responsibilities as well as ethics linked to the application of certain knowledge and judgments of the project system.

D) Communication skills
He will be able to communicate knowledge related to the definition and management of sustainable innovations being able to illustrate the processes that led to their acquisition to the various stakeholders (specialist and non-specialist interlocutors).

E) Learning skills
The student will be able to autonomously understand the state-of-the-art of project management applied to some innovations and certain objectives, being able to foresee new and unexpected developments in the field of design and specifically apply them to project design. It is also able to conceive and develop a project, successfully completing it, within the set time limits, respecting all known or unknown constraints.

Educational objectives

Understanding development and change with particular regard to contemporary socio-economic phenomena analyzed by means of quantitative models.

Educational objectives

Knowledge and understanding: Knowledge of the main principles of Growth Economics such as the classical, neo-classical and keynesian theories and models. Understand the main differences between free market theories and public intervention theories
Applying knowledge and understanding: Capacity to distinguish theories from models. Capacity to apply different models to single countries experience, both of development and growth
Making judgements: Evaluate the capacity of different approaches and models to solve specific problems such as the exit from underdeveloped poverty trap, from stagnation or inflation situation, from unemployment or from increasing public debts.
Communication skills: Capacity to arrange simple communications asking questions and participating to short paper during the lecture-time
Learning skills: Participation to periodical written test sessions

Educational objectives

The course aims to provide the basic notions and an overview of international organization and global governance, also through the study of specific institutions and organizations treated as case studies. At the end of the course, the student 1) will have acquired the fundamental theoretical knowledge; 2) will have mastery of the basic conceptual apparatus of the discipline; 3) will be able to use the main theoretical knowledge to understand concrete cases; 4) will be able to recognize the main reference authors of the discipline; 5) will be able to systematically communicate the knowledge acquired to specialist and non-specialist interlocutors; 6) will have developed autonomous learning skills such as to make it possible to deepen, in a self-directed manner, advanced knowledge in the same field.

Educational objectives

The laboratory has the objective of training future operators of international cooperation on the use of the form of cooperative enterprise as a tool for sustainable development, in response to the growing attention of international donors to the articulation of initiatives that support the private sector in developing countries.

Dublin Descriptors:
• Knowledge and understanding:
Students acquire knowledge and understanding of the role of the private sector in international development cooperation, developing a critical spirit and original ideas regarding the interrelationships between the cooperative world and the different dimensions of development studied in the other courses attended.

• Applying knowledge and understanding
Students are able to apply their knowledge, understanding and skills on proposed case studies in terms of problem solving and representation of development opportunities for disadvantaged groups in developing countries, examining the possible use of the cooperative model in the context of multidimensionality. of the development problems present.

• Ability to draw conclusions (making judgments)
Students have the ability to integrate knowledge and manage complexity, drawing their own conclusions based on the analysis of the information available with respect to the performance of the cooperative enterprises analyzed in developing countries or the opportunities for their development, in terms of their contribution to sustainable development.

• Communication skills
Students master the specific terminology relating to the world of cooperative enterprises, and are able to communicate the existing dynamics and opportunities in a clear and unambiguous way even to non-specialist subjects.

• Ability to learn (learning skills).
Students have developed the basic skills and the analysis methodology necessary to independently access insights on the subject of the cooperative model as a development tool, and are able to independently examine individual case studies for research development.