The summer school will kick off on Monday, April 22 at the International Relations Institute of Cameroon (IRIC) in Yaoundé, and start with a round table discussion on the following topic: Public policy expertise: What kind of relationships between public administrations and the academic community in Africa? [French version] L'expertise des politiques publiques: quelles collaborations entre les administrations publiques et le monde de la recherche en Afrique ?

Following this enriching session, participants board a shared bus journey to the coastal town of Kribi, where the rest of the event will take place.

From April 23 to 27, the summer university will be organized in three different moments during the day.

MORNING LECTURES

Each morning from 9:00 to 10:00, all the participants will participate in the morning lectures given by one different teacher at the school. 

COURSES

After a coffee break, the participants are divided into four different groups and follow a course given by an international scholar from 10:15 to 12:15. They had to choose between:

• • • Macro and Micro Perspectives on Policymaking by Kent Weaver [English-speaking course]
    • Studying Public Policies through their Instruments: Public Policy Instruments in African Contexts by Mireille Manga Edimo and Abdoul Karim Saidou [English-speaking course]
    • The Transnational Policy Process and Development Cooperation by Michelle Morais de Sa e Silva [English-speaking course]
    • Etudier la fabrique politique des politiques publiques: approches constructivistes, pragmatiques et qualitatives by Philippe Zittoun [French-speaking course]

AFTERNOON WORKSHOP

The afternoon will be dedicated to a three-hour workshop on research design, during which participants will have the opportunity to present a paper for which they would like to receive constructive feedback from the other participants and the professor. This paper can be a doctoral thesis research project or a project of an article they would like to submit to a journal or present at a conference. The relevant size would be from 5.000 to 10.000 words and it must include a clear research question, a presentation of methodology, and some key arguments.