The course aims at.
- Analyzing the theory and management tools necessary to develop sustainable development projects;
- Analyzing the project management approach to sustainable development,
- Analyzing the different phases of a project cycle: identification, formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation
- Applying the examined legal tools to the solution of case studie
- Developing critical analysis of the cases.

By the end of the course, students should:
- Have a deep knowledge of the theory and management tools necessary to develop sustainable development projects
- Be able to make autonomous evaluation of project management cases
- Have developed the skills to apply the acquired knowledge to practical cases, throughtout the different phases of a project cycle: identification, formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation
- Have developed the related problem-solving skills

AdvoC aims to offer attendees the chance to develop both the theoretical knowledge and a set of practical skills that will enable them to pursue a career in international human rights and humanitarian law advocacy.

The activity will be carried out in the form of a spring-summer school and will develop in two phases. In the first phase, attendees will be involved in specific advocacy projects to be agreed upon with NGOs, civil society organisations, etc. (e.g., drafting reports to be submitted to EU institutions or international human rights monitoring bodies). The second phase will consist in a series of seminars on the theory and practice of international human rights and humanitarian law advocacy and on the transversal competences that may be useful to work in this field (e.g., communication skills and legal writing), as well as a final roundtable devoted to the presentation of the clinical activity’s outcomes and the discussion of a topical issue of international human rights and/or humanitarian law with both academics and practitioners.

As part of the interdisciplinary program of the Three-Year Degree, the teaching of History of Political Theories is designed to examine the reflections and the ideas of the major Western thinkers on politics. The course will examine the classical roots of political thought (Plato, Aristotle, stoicism) and the birth of the modern state in the writings of its main theorists (Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke). A particular analysis will also be dedicated to the main political traditions: liberalism, democracy and socialism.