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The Intensive Summer School on Serious and Organised Crime (ISSOC) is an advanced and high quality training programme offered to Masters students eager to promote the study and discussion on the topic of serious and organised crime and to the shifting challenges regarding its prevention. This project will be particularly focused on the relevance of the European financial and economic crises on the criminal activities and on the way of tackling it with the European Union.
ISSOC is addressed to a specific target group made up of excellent students enrolled in masters programmes on topics related to European and International studies, though it focuses on themes not covered by home Masters programmes.
The Summer School has selected among a list of specific thematic focuses, namely:
Specific objectives are:
Main activities consist of five core elements:
Therefore ISSOC combines front lectures and group work, to equip students with theoretical and practical knowledge and skills and stimulate reflection and debate. In a multinational learning environment ISSOC students are trained to both theoretically analyse these phenomenon and to practically convey its implications into a policy-oriented process.
Expected outputs are:
In terms of learning outcomes, students will: master the main paradigms, key-concepts, debates and focal themes related to the topics addressed; have developed or strengthened abilities in critically interpreting European and International events drawing on different disciplinary methodologies; have gained, applied, enhanced and expanded competences and skills(communication, language, research and report writing skills).