This class integrate the knowledge from different SEEP-concentration areas, focusing on combining multiple perspectives when addressing politico-economic and social-ecological challenges.

1. are allocated to a specific policy challenge based on a short survey,
2. choose approaches to address and understand this challenge,
3. elaborate a vision, objectives, a pathway and a strategy and
4. propose policies and measures to implement it.

The course will be structured along these eight questions

1. How do you describe the status quo and the dynamics of the challenge?
2. What are different approaches to address the challenge (based on insights from concentration areas and a literature review)?
3. What are desired visions and objectives?
4. What are specific conflicts that arise from these visions and objectives?
5. Who or what are the driving and restraining forces or actors for or against achieving the desired objectives?
6. What are pathways and strategies to achieve the desired objectives?
7. What policies and measures do you propose to implement them?
8. How to design a campaign to facilitate its implementation?

• Integration of different disciplines and different forms of knowledge.
• Learn how to deal with multiple perspectives and how this plurality can be enriching.
• Identification of contradictions and possible approaches to deal with them. 
• How to write and develop policy briefs and papers.
• Develop a campaign strategy and understand the role of power, structure and agency change processes

Attendance is mandatory in all sessions of the course. Some sessions will take place decentralized in terms of coaching meetings with lecturers or peer-review meetings among groups. See detailed schedule.

• Group work
• Peer-review and peer-review report writing
• Coaching sessions
• Podium discussions with experts in the field