The Alliance program is an innovative endeavor that is strongly
based on core principles that are shared by the four
founding
members.
International competition in higher
education redefines largely Universities strategies in order
to remain strong and competitive. Cooperation and partnership
happen to be essential instruments available for universities
who want to take advantage of it.
A network reaching out two essential
continents for Higher education, North America and Europe,
is crucial in the international expansion strategy. Both New
York and Paris, as global cities which are opening doors on
their respective continent, provide an outstanding mutual
benefits to the universities belonging to the Alliance.
In this international competition, recruiting
the best students and professors is a key issue and a challenge.
Alliance offers to four universities incredible opportunities
for their students and professors to pursue their academic
objectives abroad while remaining in their home institution.
Alliance’s major objective is to use this partnership
research network to identify priority research needs for the
medium and long term, to identify potential new areas of collaboration,
to foster research activities and coordinate partnerships.
By raising some issues that matter for our societies and open a space for discussion between private sector executives, public policy-makers and academics, the New York Paris Alliance Program has started being a leading transatlantic platform of dialogue on important issues. Workshops, conferences and co-sponsored events are organized both in Paris and in New York to share recent research results and outline future joint research perspectives on current issues. Here are some priorities of Alliance’s workshop agenda: Discrimination and group inequality, Public space, Urban policy, Transatlantic relations.
|
Here are some example of the Alliance Strategy
LAURENT
FABIUS
In the midst of the Turmoil of the French Referendum Campaign
on the ratitification of the Constitutional Treaty, Laurent
Fabius, former French Prime Minister and Minister of Finance came
campaigning at Columbia University on April
28th 2005 at Columbia University
(Watch France 2 News and the Video of the conference : )

NICOLAS
SARKOZY
French
minister Sarkozy "Sixty Minutes" conference in October
2004 is another example of the Alliance strategy.
A policy maker raised an important issue for our
time, affirmative action on a transatlantic
perspective. The topic was chosen because it is a crucial
subject at the center of both scientific project
and policy
making.
CONDOLEEZA
RICE
When Secretary
of State Condoleeza Rice decided to give
her major speech of her tip to Europe at Sciences
Po in February 2005, it was also directly based
on the international platform in which Sciences
Po is involved with its three partners.
Watch
Secretary of State Condolezza Rice Conference at SciencesPo (Watch the Video )
Part I Part II Part III

For all these reasons, the Alliance Program
has succeeded in proving to be a working-prototype of the
University of the future: a modern university at the center
of a global network, reaching out across disciplines and countries.
This success appears in the exponential number of demands
emerging from professors, scholars and students on both sides
of the Atlantic.
|