Overview
Key Features
Creating and maintaining trust in public governance is essential for a well-functioning society, especially when this trust is more than ever under pressure in the face of grand societal challenges. Such grand societal challenges - e.g. climate change, digitalisation or global pandemics - emphasise the complexity of contemporary governance, as they require collaborative efforts from public, private and non-profit actors as well as individual citizens in multi-layered decision-making arenas.
For such complex governance systems to perform well, trust is a fundamental condition. While a certain degree of distrust between societal actors might be functional in specific instances, the recurring reports of breakdowns in trust point to significant problems for society. When trust evaporates, cooperation between citizens, private and non-profit organisations, and public actors is compromised, making an effective governance of societal transitions very hard to achieve. Governments and societal actors therefore increasingly seek ways to foster trust.
The GOVTRUST Summer School offered at Antwerp called University of Antwerp investigates a wide range of critical questions about the dynamics, causes and effects of trust and public governance from a multi-level perspective.
Programme Structure
Topics:
- Defining and theorising trust
- Trust and regulation
- Trust and multi-level governance in the EU
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 5 days
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting
- Apply before
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Language
Credits
Delivered
Disciplines
Political Science Social PolicyAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Student insurance
Make sure to cover your health, travel, and stay while studying abroad. Even global coverages can miss important items, so make sure your student insurance ticks all the following:
- Additional medical costs (i.e. dental)
- Repatriation, if something happens to you or your family
- Liability
- Home contents and baggage
- Accidents
- Legal aid
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Other requirements
General requirements
- PhD students, senior (postdoctoral) researchers, practitioners and policymakers interested in trust and public governance.
- Multi-disciplinary participation is strongly welcomed.
- 100% (active) participation is required
Tuition Fee
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International
250 EUR/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 250 EUR for the full programme during 5 days. -
EU/EEA
250 EUR/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 250 EUR for the full programme during 5 days.
Living costs for Antwerpen
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.