26 – 30 SEP | Summer School Global Challenges
Global Challenges is a policy-oriented Summer School on the current challenges that shape and reconfigure the architecture of the global system.
This is an initiative organised and promoted by CEI-Iscte, in partnership with IMVF and the Club of Lisbon.
Summary
The Global Challenges Summer School (visit the site) is a 20-hours course, from 26 to 30 September 2022, with 2 daily classes, from 18h00 to 20h00 and from 20h30 to 22h30. It works as an optional course for Iscte’s master students, but it is also open as a summer school, or specialization seminar.
Coordination
Academic coordinator: Ana Mónica Fonseca, director of the Master’s in Modern and Contemporary History, director of the CEI-Iscte, the Center for International Studies of Iscte – Lisbon University Institute and Fernando Jorge Cardoso (representing IMVF and Club of Lisbon).
Executive coordinator: Inês Marques Ribeiro, integrated researcher at CEI-Iscte.
Key dates
Applications: 1-14 September
Results: 15 September
Registration: 16-21 September.
Syllabus
| Days | Classes and Speakers | |
| 18h00-20h00 | 20h30-22h30 | |
| 26 | What kind of World Order is in the making?
Luís Amado |
How are geopolitical, geoeconomics scenarios changing?
Luís Tomé; José Félix Ribeiro |
| 27 | How to power the World and preserve the planet?
Catarina Roseta Palma; Agostinho Miranda |
Cybersecurity and surveillance: can they cohabit with freedom?
Lino Santos; Pedro Saleiro |
| 28 | Will Pandemics remain a global threat?
Paulo Telles de Freitas; Rita Jesus |
Is China’s global strategy in a conundrum?
Cátia Miriam Costa; Francisco Leandro |
| 29 | Why is war returning to Europe?
Bruno Cardoso Reis; Carlos Branco |
Is NATO the EU’s Security?
Inês Ribeiro; Ana Isabel Xavier |
| 30 | Is the EU turning into a geopolitical player? Francisco Seixas da Costa; Paulo de Almeida Sande |
Can Africa be seen as one?
Fernando Jorge Cardoso |
Contacts
For further information (candidacy, costs, other) please contact: cei@iscte-iul.pt.
Global Challenges Speakers
Coordinators
ANA MÓNICA FONSECA
Academic Coordinator. Assistant Professor at the Department of History of Iscte, director of the Master’s in Modern and Contemporary History, deputy director of the Master’s in International Studies, Director of the Centre for International Studies, CEI-Iscte.
FERNANDO JORGE CARDOSO
Academic Coordinator (on behalf of the partners). Head of Strategic and Development Studies at the Instituto Marquês de Valle Flôr, IMVF, Executive Director of the Club of Lisbon, Full Professor at Lisbon Autónoma University, Researcher at CEI-Iscte.
INÊS MARQUES RIBEIRO
Executive Coordinator. Invited Professor at the Department of History of Iscte, Integrated Researcher at the Centre for International Studies, CEI-Iscte. She is a regular policy-oriented contributor to the National Defense Policy Directorate.
Other Speakers
AGOSTINHO PEREIRA MIRANDA
Founder and Partner of Miranda & Associados and first Chairman (2001-2015). His major practice is in the fields of Energy Law and Arbitrage Law – he has been a Member of the Panel of Judges & Mediators on Investment of the World Bank since 2011.
ANA ISABEL XAVIER
Associate Professor at Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa and deputy director of OBSERVARE. Invited Professor at the Department of History at Iscte and Associate Researcher at CEI-Iscte. Previously: Deputy Director General of National Defense Policy (2015-2017) at the Ministry of Defense.
BRUNO CARDOSO REIS
Assistant Professor at Iscte and Integrated Researcher at CEI-Iscte. He is Adviser at the Institute of National Defense (IDN) and Associate Researcher at the Michael Howard Center for Military History at King’s College. Previously: Adviser to the Portuguese Minister of Defense.
CARLOS BRANCO
Major General of the Portuguese Army (reserve), he served in several missions for the UN and NATO, including during the Balkans and Afghanistan wars. Deputy Director (2008) of the National Defence Institute and Deputy Director of the War College.
CATARINA ROSETA PALMA 
Assistant Professor at Iscte. Integrated Researcher at BRU-Iscte – Business Research Unit (IBS) – Economics Group. Her main research interests and activities are related with environmental and natural resource economics, mainly water management, behavioural models, uncertainty, and growth.
CÁTIA MIRIAM COSTA
Invited Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Economy of Iscte, Integrated Researcher at the Centre for International Studies, CEI-Iscte. Specialised in intercultural relations, she has studied deeply non-European territories, including China.
FRANCISCO LEANDRO
Associate Professor at the City University of Macau. Deputy Director of the Institute for Research of the Portuguese Speaking Countries and Coordinator of the Doctorate Programme. His research interests are International Relations, International Law and China Studies.
MANUEL FÉLIX RIBEIRO
Advisor of the Board of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Invited Fellow of the Portuguese Institute for International Relations, IPRI – Nova Lisbon University. He is also Vice-President of the Supervisory Board of the Club of Lisbon.
LINO SANTOS
Deputy Director-General of the National Security Office of Portugal, and General Coordinator of the National Cybersecurity Centre in the country. Lino Santos is also the designated Portuguese Representative at the Board of Management of the European Cybersecurity Agency.
LUÍS AMADO
International Consultant. Invited Full Professor at the Higher Institute of Social and Political Sciences (ISCSP) of the University of Lisbon. Former Portuguese Minister of Defence (2005-2006) and Minister of State and Foreign Affairs (2006-2011).
LUÍS TOMÉ
Full Professor of the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, Director of the Department of International Relations and Scientific Coordinator of OBSERVARE. Visiting Professor at Sapienza-Universitá in Rome and of the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara.
PAULO MANUEL VALLE-FLÔR TELLES DE FREITAS
Chairman of the Instituto Marquês de Valle Flôr (IMVF) and intensive care Physician at Fernando da Fonseca Hospital. Member of the Board of the Portuguese Group of Triage. Former Invited Professor in on Medical Emergency at the Manchester Metropolitan University.
PAULO SANDE
Lawyer at Cruz Vilaça Advogados. Master in Political Science and International Relations, post-graduate in EU Law from the Catholic University. Head of the European Parliament Cabinet in Lisbon (2004-2012), he was Political Consultant of the President of Portugal (2016–2021).
PEDRO SALEIRO
Director of AI Research at Feedzai a Fraud and AML Machine Learning Platform Company. He worked on open source tools and data science in diverse areas, from criminal justice to health care. He co-founded the Aequitas Platform, a tool to audit and detect AI malpractices.
RITA PATROCÍNIO DE JESUS
Specialist Physician in Infectious Diseases at Fernando da Fonseca Hospital. MSc in Tropical Medicine with a International Health Qualification in East African (DTM&H) diseases at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
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