EUKIT Teaching
Teaching activities were a core component of the EUKIT project. Over its three-year duration (2020–2023), the project designed and implemented two elective courses aimed at complementing and expanding the GNMI academic programme in the fields of EU studies and international trade.
These two interconnected courses were conceived as the teaching flagship of EUKIT and developed through a collaborative effort in which the academic team invited external experts and practitioners to share their insights and professional experience.
Both courses incorporated innovative teaching methodologies, delivered in online and face-to-face formats, and became a valuable institutional learning space within ESCI-UPF.
This section provides an overview of the content and pedagogical approaches of the courses created under the EUKIT project:
The EU trade policy in a time of changes
Profesor: Albert Carreras, Joan Pere Plaza and Ramon Xifré
Year: 3º / 4º
Quarter: 1º
4 ECTS
Language: inglés
Description
The EU's Common Trade Policy is an inseparable element of the process of European integration in both economic and political terms. Many aspects explain this centrality: it is one of the EU's few exclusive competences; the success of the Single Market and its potential both to attract trade partners and to generate surpluses and income that can be converted into FDI in third countries; and, of course, the absence of a common foreign policy. These are just some of the factors. The EU has used its CTP as an policy instrument to establish itself as an actor on the international stage and be recognised as such. Proof of this are numerous: the EU has been a full member of the World Trade Organisation since 1 January 1995, for example. Moreover, the EU has been combining this multilateral approach to trade with a more and more dense of bilateral trade agreements (Korea, Chile, Pakistan, the Philippines, to mention just a few). This subject seeks to teach second-cycle students about all these debates.
Trends in global trade governance
Profesor: Albert Carreras, Joan Pere Plaza and Ramon Xifré
Year: 3º / 4º
Quarter: 2º
4 ECTS
Language: inglés
Description
La crisis financiera de 2008 y la pandemia de Covid-19 han modificado sustancialmente los flujos del comercio global. En estos momentos de turbulencia, los principales actores (los EEUU, la UE y China) están recurriendo distintas estrategias para no quedar atrás en la gobernanza de esta arena de las relaciones internacionales.
Competencia
Adquirir las bases empíricas y conceptuales para entender y poder analizar el entorno cambiante de la gobernanza del comercio internacional, para poder así evaluar la coyuntura que ofrecen los distintos mercados internacionales para el sector de la importación /exportación.
