The School of Economics, International Relations and Diplomacy (SERID), established at Università degli Studi Internazionali di Roma – UNINT, offers an educational pathway aimed at understanding and analysing the most relevant economic and political dynamics that take shape in the international system.
The training and workshop activities provided by the School aim to provide participants with the conceptual and analytical tools needed to understand the dynamics underway in the economic and political-diplomatic balances at a global level, without neglecting the analysis of their repercussions on the main countries - Italy, first and foremost - and on the most relevant international and supranational Organisations. To this end, the School prepares a highly specialised training offer with innovative themes, focusing especially on digital, energy, and intercultural aspects of contemporary relevance. Finally, the path integrates a specific teaching strand on diplomacy and its role in resolving some of the main dossiers of international political and economic relations of the XNUMXst century.
The School is distinguished by the presence of university lecturers, business managers, political analysts, diplomats and representatives of the world of international organisations and communications to ensure a better representation of the complexity of the international processes in progress.
During the course, the aim is to stimulate constant interaction within the sections. The meetings are designed with a dialogical perspective so that the achievement of the training objectives is guaranteed by the continuous feedback of the participants.
The third edition of the School of Economics, International Relations and Diplomacy (SERID) is organised by Università degli Studi Internazionali di Roma – UNINT in collaboration with the Geopolitica.info Study Center, the Research Center “Cooperazione con l’Eurasia, il Mediterraneo e l’Africa Subsahariana” (Cooperation with Eurasia, the Mediterranean and Sub-Saharan Africa)(CEMAS) of Sapienza University of Rome and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung.
The course lasts one year (academic year). It starts in November 2024 and ends in June 2025. The calendar will average one meeting per month, subject to change. The initial session of the school will be preceded by a launch conference. The total is 9 training sessions for a total of 26 hours of training (18 hours of lectures + 8 hours of final project work). Each monthly meeting is scheduled to last 2 hours, approximately from 14:00 pm to 16:00 pm.
The meetings will take place both at Università degli Studi Internazionali di Roma (Rome, Via delle Sette Chiese, 139, 00147 – Metro B Garbatella stop) and at external locations of political institutions, embassies and international organisations.
The School of Economics, International Relations and Diplomacy (SERID) is developed through eight teaching areas defined below:
- Geoeconomics and economic cooperation;
- global leadership;
- corporate governance and international diplomacy;
- corporate diplomacy and lobbying;
- international trade and economic multilateralism;
- public diplomacy and integrated promotion of the Country System;
- energy transition and green economy;
- e-diplomacy and new technologies.
Program of the III edition
Academic year 2024/2025
8 November 2024
Official opening of the School at Konrad Adenauer Stiftung
Bernhard Kotsch, German Ambassador to the Holy See
13 December 2024
Global Leadership at Circolo degli Esteri
Presentation of the volume “Leadership in the Globalization Era” edited by Sanja Vlahovic, SERID Scientific Coordinator and UNINT Associate Professor and Alessandro De Nisco Director of the UNINT Department of International Humanities and Social Sciences
24 January 2025
Geoeconomics and economic cooperation at UNINT
Manuel Venuti, Global Trade Compliance Manager, ASM
21 February 2025
Corporate governance and international diplomacy
at World Food Program (WFP) or IDLO
28 March 2025
International trade and economic multilateralism at UNINT or SACE
Alessandro Terzulli, Chief Economist, SACE
11 April 2025
Public diplomacy and integrated promotion of the Country System at MAECI or UNINT
Mauro Battocchi, Director General for the Promotion of the Country System, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI)
20 May 2025
Energy transition and green economy at UNINT
Seminar activity on the occasion of the States General of Sustainable Innovation
30 May 2025
Corporate diplomacy and lobbying at UNINT
Marco Sarto, Senior Consultant, COMIN & PARTNERS
6 June 2025
School closure at the Senate of the Republic.
Guided tour at Palazzo Madama.
SERID final meeting
Third edition
Events
Academic year 2024/2025
Target audience and how to enrol
SERID is designed to complement the university courses of UNINT students belonging to all degree courses as well as of students enrolled in similar curricula at other universities. Given the highly specialised nature of the training offer, however, the School is also aimed at those who, having completed their university studies, wish to delve deeper into technical aspects of international economic and political affairs.
Lectures are delivered in-person at Università degli Studi Internazionali di Roma (Via delle Sette Chiese, 139, 00147 – Rome). Some lectures will be held at political and diplomatic institutions, both national and international, or at the headquarters of international organisations, located in Rome.
Selection criteria and application procedures
The third edition of SERID includes a maximum of 50 participants. Therefore, given the limited number of places, admission to the School is subject to passing a selection based on qualifications. In examining the qualifications submitted by the students, the selection board will primarily assess the average grade obtained during the candidate's academic career. Candidates are therefore invited to submit the certificate of examinations taken and to communicate the corresponding weighted average. If the candidate is not attending any university course, he/she must submit the average grade of the last degree course attended.
To apply, candidates can fill in the registration form available at the following link.
The deadline for submitting applications is 3 November 2024.
For any information send an e-mail to the address serid@unint.eu.
Certificate of attendance and recognition of ECTS
At the end of the School, participants will be asked to give a presentation on a topic covered during the seminar cycle. The presentations will be given in two final examination sessions. The teaching committee will divide the students into groups of 3/4 people and assign a topic to each group. Students will have to prepare a 15-minute presentation and answer questions from the teaching and scientific committee at the end of the presentation. In the evaluation, the scientific committee will consider both the presentation itself (structure and clarity of presentation) and the knowledge of the students in the group. In the event of a positive outcome of the evaluation procedure, the participant who has attended 80% of the lectures may request the release of a final certificare of attendance, suitable for obtaining 4 university credits (ECTS). For students enrolled in the Master's degree in Economics and International Management, the ECTS may be recognised as laboratory or as supernumerary credits. The nine days and the work on the final paper amount to a total of approximately XNUMX hours of study.
Those enrolled in SERID who have attended 80% of the meetings in person (at least 7 meetings) may decide not to take the final examination and still request the release of a certificate attesting their participation in the School's seminar cycle.
All teaching materials, including lecture slides and suggested readings, will be made available on the UNINT Everywhere platform. Therefore, both those who were not able to attend some of the meetings and those who wish to further explore the topics covered, can consult the materials on the online platform.
Contacts, enrolment, and fees
Participation is free of charge for students regularly enrolled at Università degli Studi Internazionali di Roma – UNINT
For all other categories of participants there is a participation fee of 199 euros; in this case the payment must be made to the bank account with IBAN IT38U0100503224000000002874 made out to Università degli Studi Internazionali di Roma, indicating the following parameters in the payment reason: Name Surname Tax Code and, under "Course", SERID.
For any information send an e-mail to the address serid@unint.eu.
Scientific Committee
Joachim Bitterlich
INSTITUT JACQUES DELORSBSP
Andrea Cartery
CEMAS SAPIENZA UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA
Jason Davidson
UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON
Alessandro De Nisco
UNINT LECTURER
Antonella Ercolani
UNINT LECTURER
Luca Errico
UNINT LECTURER
Fabrizio Lobasso
MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
Giampaolo Malgeri
LUMSA LECTURER
Giovanni Moschetta
GIANNI, ORIGONI PARTNERS
LECTURER
UNIVERSITY OF GENOA
Gabriele Natalizia
CEMAS SAPIENZA UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA
Marco Sarto
COMIN & PARTNERS
Anthony Teasdale
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Lorenzo Trapassi
MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
Scientific Director
Sanja Vlahovic
UNINT LECTURER
Educational coordinator
Matteo Mazziotti di Celso
UNINT
