Timetable & learning outcomes

Throughout this summer school, renowned and engaged speakers will examine how comparative and interdisciplinary research can inform the regulation of labour relations and collective bargaining across countries. An inaugural lecture sets the scene, followed by structured discussions with guests from different legal systems and disciplines.

Workshops built around a practical “hard case” constitute the heart of the training. On the first afternoon, the teaching team will outline the working method and expected outcomes, then present the case while explaining the case-comparison approach. Once this in place, students will, in an interdisciplinary and comparative spirit, develop a diagnosis, craft arguments and run a simulated collective bargaining exercise.

A “methodology café” will also invite participants to engage directly with negotiation and to clarify cross-disciplinary terms, such as “dialogue”, “professional culture”, “conflict”, “stakeholder”... Particular attention will be paid to semantic misinterpretations arising from discipline-specific meanings. Finally, the event will conclude with a plenary presentation, during which students will present their results.

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Upon completion, this project-based summer school will allow participants to validate the theoretical knowledge acquired concerning the concept of collective bargaining in a comparativ perspective and the issues raised by technological transition for the industrial relations.

It will also highlight practical knowledge in the field of negotiation: problem formulation and joint diagnosis, argumentation, and drafting compromises in a multi-national and cultural context.

A certificate of participation will be awarded to students upon completion of the course.