ECPR Member Institutions

The University of Amsterdam is a public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Established in 1632 by municipal authorities, it is the fourth-oldest academic institution in the Netherlands still in operation.

Political Science at the University of Bamberg is organized around a number of professorial chairs within the Faculty of Social Sciences, Economics and Business Administration: Comparative Politics; Comparative Public Policy Analysis; Empirical Political Science; EU Politics; International Relations; Political Sociology; Political Theory. There are six full professors, two emeritus professors and a total of approximately 20 full-time members of academic faculty. Political Science is also part of the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences (BAGSS) offering a structured training programme for PhD students funded under the German Excellence Initiative. Main research areas are political institutions (national-, sub-national, inter-national and trans-national); voting behaviour and political psychology; positive political theory; and fiscal policy. Political Science at Bamberg is developing a number of international cooperations and has a strategy of internationalising its offerings through the establishment of inter-institutional double degrees and increased provision of courses in English.

The University of Basel runs both a BA and a MA in political science. PhD students may participate in the Graduate School Social Sciences. Cooperations exist with swisspeace (www.swisspeace.ch) and with the Institute for European Global Studies (www.europa.unibas.ch).

The University of Bath is a public research university in Bath, England. It received its royal charter in 1966, along with a number of other institutions following the Robbins Report.

For over 40 years the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Political Sciences has been a leading institution of higher education and a modern and open school of democracy and democratical political culture. It has repeatedly proved capable of raising the quality of contemporary political debates and of shaping major political developments in our region and its international environment. It was established in 1968. as the first school in this field in the former Yugoslavia. The Faculty focuses on education and research in the fields of political science, international relations, journalism and communication studies, and social policy and social work. There are over 90 full-time academics, while distinguished foreign and domestic experts regularly visit the school. Since its foundation, 8,100 students have graduated from the Faculty, 975 have completed MA programmes and 464 have defended their PhD theses. Today the Faculty is a well-known teaching and research centre which takes part in short- and long-term projects with leading regional and international academic institutions. It also publishes various materials in the area of expertise of its academic staff. Nearly 3,500 students are now enrolled in the Faculty’s programmes in which students are encouraged to approach political phenomena from interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives. Lectures, classes, seminars and workshops, as well as practical training and inter ships in specialised fields are conducted in line with the standards of the Bologna Declaration and of European higher education. The Faculty offers undergraduate, MA and PhD programmes, as well as advanced professional development programmes.

The University of Birmingham is a public research university in Birmingham, England. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Queen's College, Birmingham (founded in 1825 as the Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery), and Mason Science College (established in 1875 by Sir Josiah Mason), making it the first English civic or 'red brick' university to receive its own royal charter, and the first English unitary university. It is a founding member of both the Russell Group of British research universities and the international network of research universities, Universitas 21.

The University of Bristol is a red brick Russell Group research university in Bristol, England. It received its royal charter in 1909, although it can trace its roots to a Merchant Venturers' school founded in 1595 and University College, Bristol, which had been in existence since 1876.

The University of Calabria was established in 1968 with the aim of rooting a strategic resource for the development of Calabria. An important asset of facilities and infrastructures configures the University as a residential Campus that covers an area of about 200 hectares, where Departments, Lecture Halls (over 200 with 18,500 seats), Offices, Laboratories, Libraries, Cinemas and Theaters are hosted. Research and teaching activities are entrusted to 14 Departments, hosting about 800 professors. DISPeS is the university's point of reference for research and teaching activities in the fields of political and social sciences, film, media and communication studies and for the training of professionals in public administration, social services and international cooperation.

The University of Calgary is a public research university located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The University of Calgary started in 1944 as the Calgary branch of the University of Alberta, founded in 1908, prior to being instituted into a separate, autonomous university in 1966.

The University of Cologne is a university in Cologne, Germany. It was established in the year 1388, the sixth university to be established in Central Europe. It closed in 1798 before being re-established in 1919. It is now one of the largest universities in Germany with more than 50,000 students.

The University of Copenhagen is a public research university in Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in Scandinavia after Uppsala University.

The University of Cyprus is a public research university established in Cyprus in 1989.