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What’s New at the Hertie School? Edition 1 | Academic Year 2015/2016 | November 2015 First Executive MBA/MPA Programme in Europe ESMT and Hertie School Launch Dual Degree Programme The Hertie School of Governance and ESMT degree programme of its kind in Europe. European School of Management and “In an increasingly interdependent Technology are offering a joint Executive world, we need responsible managers Master of Business Administration/ who can lead effectively at the interface Master of Public Administration (Executive between politics, business, and society. For MBA/MPA) degree from autumn 2016. ESMT and the Hertie School it is a natural, The new Executive MBA/MPA is a forward-looking step to combine our re- two-year programme and will be taught spective expertise with the new degree together by the two Berlin universities. programme and be the first to offer this would make faster progress with intersec- The programme, held in English, provides dual degree in Europe,” said ESMT Presi- toral thinking in everyday management. leaders from private, public, and non- dent Jörg Rocholl (pictured right). As an important centre for politics and profit sectors the opportunity to develop Helmut K. Anheier, President of the business in the heart of Europe, Berlin is their management skills across all of these Hertie School, adds, “Be it the viable use an ideal location for an international Exe- areas. While leading universities in the of resources, the integration of migrants cutive MBA/MPA such as the one the Her- US have been increasingly forging such into the labour market, or financial stabili- tie School and ESMT are offering.” alliances, this is the first joint executive ty - with the many challenges we face, we >> www.hertie.school/emba-empa Friede Springer Foundation Supports Centre for International Security Policy at the Hertie School The Friede Springer Foundation is sup- at the Hertie School. porting the Centre for International Se- “We find the broad and interlinking curity Policy at the Hertie School by esta- concept of security, which underlies the blishing an Assistant Professorship. The activities at the Hertie School, very convin- Professorship for International Relations cing. Topics like security and development, and Security is set to begin in September transatlantic relations and cyber security 2016 and will run for six years. are highly relevant and urgently require Additionally, the foundation will be fi- partnership in the areas of research and nancing several full scholarships annually teaching,” said chairperson of the board for students in the Master of International Friede Springer about the foundation’s de- f.l.t.r.: Karin Arnold (Friede Springer Stif- Affairs programme. The new centre is led cision. With its international quality and tung), Helmut K. Anheier (Hertie School), by Wolfgang Ischinger, Chairman of the interdisciplinary focus, the Hertie School Friede Springer, Wolfgang Ischinger (Her- Munich Security Conference and Professor offers an ideal environment for the above tie School/Munich Security Conference). for Security Policy and Diplomatic Practice objectives. >> www.hertie.school/ischinger Hertie School Launches Digital Student Magazine The Governance Post Dear Friends of the Hertie School, The Academic Year 2015/2016 has The Hertie School’s new digital student- Registration I will attend: brought several exciting developments run magazine, The Governance Post, was with it. In addition to welcoming over launched in Berlin on 4 November with 250 new students from 52 countries, a presentation by the Executive Editors, we are delighted to have the first Daniel Salgado and Felipe Torres, both Name Master of International Affairs (MIA) students in the Master of Public Policy. cohort on campus. The Hertie School The Governance Post, previously Position has expanded its focus on international 3 Schlossplatz , is the brainchild of Hertie affairs this year with the MIA, as well School students and is designed to be a as a range of executive formats and the Institution platform for information, innovation and new Innovations in International Affairs exchange among students, alumni, facul- Series. You can read more about these, ty and members from the School’s inter- Email and other, developments in this edition. national and intersectoral network. Helmut K. Anheier, President >> www.hertie.school/the-governance-post Accompanied by Understand today. Shape tomorrow. | Page 1/4 | www.hertie-school.berlin What’s New at the Hertie School? | Edition 1 | Academic Year 2015/2016 | November 2015 Faculty & Research DFG Research Group: The International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline? Hertie School Professor Markus Jachten- lin, the University of Potsdam and WZB fuchs is a member of the new DFG research Social Science Research Center Berlin to group, The International Rule of Law – Rise examine the role of international law in a or Decline? which brings together interna- changing global order. The research group tional lawyers and political scientists from is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsge- the Free University of Berlin, Hertie School meinschaft (DFG). of Governance, Humboldt University Ber- >> www.hertie.school/jachtenfuchs Study: German Youth Are More Political and Optimistic Since 1953 Shell has tasked independent research institutes with the compilation of the Shell Youth Study, a comprehensive documentation of the perspectives and expectations of German youth. The latest edition was released in Oc- tober 2015 and Hertie School Professor in Germany and have an optimistic per- Klaus Hurrelmann, who has co-authored spective of the future. They are more po- the study since 2002, evaluated the find- litically-minded than their predecessors ings as the first indications of a change and want to shape the society they live of mind among the youth. Comparing in. At the same time they tend to distance the results to previous findings, he said: themselves from the political system. It “The up-and-coming generation is still th will be interesting to see how this seem- Hertie School Placed 11 very pragmatic, but they have also beca- ing contradiction pans out.” in FAZ Ranking of German me more self-confident. They enjoy living >> www.hertie.school/hurrelmann Economists The German national daily Frankfurter New Publications by Jan Minx and Christian Flachsland Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) placed the Her- Hertie School Professor Jan land co-authored an ar- tie School’s economists at #11 on their Minx co-wrote a chapter on ticle on the state of the ranking of economics departments at the economic and institu- Intergovernmental Panel German-speaking universities. With Kers- tional challenges the 2°C on Climate Change (IPCC) tin Bernoth, Henrik Enderlein, Claudia limit poses in the new book for Science Magazine. He Kemfert and Christian Traxler the School Towards a Workable and also wrote a commentary is regarded as more influential than a Effective Climate Regime on the Pope‘s encyclical number of significantly bigger universi- (Edited by Barrett, Carraro on climate change for the ties in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. and de Melo). journal Nature Climate Change. >> www.hertie.school/researchnews The Hertie School‘s Christian Flachs- >> www.hertie.school/researchnews Hertie School Research Project STARS Gets to the Bottom of the Thinkers 50 Shortlist Johanna Financial Crisis Mair for Oscar of Management The collapse of global financial markets in states and financial markets at the origin, Registration I will attend: Thinking 2007/2008 catalysed a global economic and during the course, of the crisis. “We Thinkers 50, a ranking of global business crisis. However, the academic exploration are going to investigate, among others, the thinkers, shortlisted Hertie School Pro- of the causes and consequences of the role of the state as a regulator of financial fessor Johanna Mair for this year’s Dis- crisis is only beginning now. To tackle these markets. How has theName relationship tinguished Achievement Awards, which questions, the German Federal Ministry between state, society and the financial have been described as the “Oscars of of Education and Research is funding a market changed? Has thisPosition development management thinking” by the Financial research project at the Hertie School with expedited the outbreak of the crisis Times. 850,000 Euro. and what lessons can we take from it?“ Institution Mair is one of eight leading thinkers As part of the three-year project State, outlined Anke Hassel, coordinator of the in the field of social entrepreneurship, Risk and Society (STARS) the Professors project. In order to be able to identify the according to the Thinkers 50 selection Anke Hassel, Gerhard Hammerschmid, root causes, the researchersEmail will analyse committee. Mark Hallerberg, Mark Kayser and Kai the two decades leading up to the crisis as >>www.hertie.school/mair Wegrich will investigate the interplay of well. >>www.hertie.school/Accompaniedstars by Understand today. Shape tomorrow. | Page 2/4 | www.hertie-school.berlin What’s New at the Hertie School? | Edition 1 | Academic Year 2015/2016 | November 2015 Programme News New Scholarship Opportunity: Hertie School Fellowship The Hertie School Fellowship is an worth 29,500 EUR) will be awarded to opportunity for all Master of Public up to five of these candidates based on Policy and Master of International Affairs academic excellence, personal suitability applicants who receive a stipend from and motivation. For a full list of the one of the German Begabtenförderwerke