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Profile of the programme
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Geopolitics of Sub-Saharan Africa – Strategic competition, African agency and resource management – 7th edition - 2nd to 6th of June 2025
Duration: 20 hours of classes
Language: English
Mode: online (Zoom)
Certificate of participation: issued to students who attend 80% of the classes.
Credit: 6 ECTS awarded by FCSH/UBI (optional, upon the positive evaluation of an essay with 6000 words).
Frequency fee: 50 euros
Discount: 50% for students and staff of the institutions involved in the scientific committee and Portuguese public entities
Scholarships: 27 (see application requirements)
Value of the scholarship: 400 euros
Application deadline: 30/05/2025 |
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Key learning outcomes
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Programme:
A) Strategic competition, African agency and resource management
• Shifting Power in the Red Sea: Local Agency in a Changing Geopolitical Landscape
Federico Donelli, University of Trieste, Italy
• Conflicts and Critical Resources in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Dr. Mursel Bayram, Head of the Department of African Studies, Ankara Social Sciences University, Institute of Area Studies, Turkey
• African agency for investors and geopolitics
Fernando Jorge Cardoso – Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, Portugal
• Weak States and Spheres of Great Power Competition
Hanna Kassab - East Carolina University, United States
B) Portuguese-speaking African countries (50 Years of PALOP Independence)
• The metamorphosis of the Portuguese speaking countries political systems
Francisco Leandro - University of Macau, China
• São Tomé e Príncipe and China’s XXI Century Maritime Silk Road
Vasco Becker-Weinberg, Nova School of Law , Portugal
• Structural Challenges of Economic Structures in the CPLP
Manuel Ennes Ferreira, ISEG, Portugal
• Mozambique at 50: reflections on state formation, democracy and the role of natural resources
Roberta Holanda Maschietto, Institute of Public Policy and International Relations (IPPRI) of the São Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil
C) General theme
• Political Transition in the Horn of Africa: Experience for Ethiopia and Sudan since 2018
Dr. Bayuligne Zemedeagegnehu Bahru, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
• The New agenda for peace in an era of great power competition: challenges to the African security architecture
Juliana de Paula Bigatão Puig, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), Brazil |
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Occupational profiles of graduates
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Organizers:
• Department of Sociology, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, University of Beira Interior (FCSH/UBI)
• OBSERVARE, Observatory of External Relations, Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa (UAL)
• Centre of International Studies, Iscte – Lisbon University Institute (CEI-Iscte/IUL)
• Institute of National Defense (IDN), Ministry of Defense, Portugal.
Scientific committee:
• Alberto Neves Marinheiro (IDN), Lisbon, Portugal;
• Aleksi Ylönen (CEI-Iscte/IUL), Lisbon, Portugal;
• Mürsel Bayram - Department of African Studies at the Institute for Area Studies at the Social Sciences of Ankara University, Turkey;
• Francisco Leandro - Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Macau, China;
• Isabel Ferreira Nunes (IDN), Lisbon, Portugal;
• Gilberto Oliveira – Institute of International Relations and Defense (IRID) of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil;
• Ricardo Sousa (FCSH/UBI), Covilhã and OBSERVARE/UAL, Lisbon, Portugal;
• Yoannes Tekalign Beza, Institute for Peace and Security Studies (IPSS)
Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. |
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Learning facilities
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Requirements to apply for the scholarship:
• Age over 18 years old at the beginning of the year of the course;
• To be resident in the Portuguese territory;
• 80 % of assiduity;
• Submit the application and all the documentation by the established date;
• Approval on an essay (6 ECTS)
• Selected in rank order.
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