The training school brings together PhD students and young career researchers working
on intergovernmental coordination from different disciplinary angles and research
questions. The training school covers conceptual distinctions, different types of
coordination and their implications for questions of representation, legitimacy and
accountability of decision-making, to methodological questions of measuring
coordination for comparative research purposes. The school is being delivered by leading
scholars of this COST Action from across Europe. Each session will be led by the
teaching team, who will introduce the key conceptual terms and arguments of the debate.
Participants will engage in discussion of issues and practical exercises of real-world
scenarios of intergovernmental coordination, and have the opportunity to present and get
feedback on their own research.
The training school brings together young researchers from different disciplinary
backgrounds with an interest in topics of intergovernmental coordination spanning from
comparative research on policy problems and solutions involving coordination; practical
examples of coordination problems and how they were managed or overcome by political
actors; to the politics of coordination and normative questions of legitimacy and
accountability of interdependent decision-making in multi-level contexts. Each
participant will give a paper presentation about their own research project as part of the
training school.