In January 2018, ECES and the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (SSSA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding. Since then, ECES has provided within the framework of its project’s different modules of the Master's Degree in Electoral Politics and Administration.
Through the Innov-Elections project financed by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ECES has provided in total:
- Different training courses for a total of 967 people from 21 different countries.
- 437 different modules and 47 full master's degrees offered to 169 people from 32 different African countries.
- 213 different modules and 30 full master's degrees were given to a total of 96 people from 5 African continental and regional organisations (African Union, CEN-SAD, EAC, ECF-SADC, ECOWAS/ECONEC).
In the framework of the projects funded by the European Union and implemented by ECES in Ethiopia (A European Response to Electoral Cycle Support in Ethiopia - EURECS Ethiopia, Prevention and Mitigation and Managment of Electoral Conflicts and Potential Violence in Ethiopia - PEV Ethiopia, and the support to the Coalition of Ethiopian Civil Society Organisations for Election - CECOE), the collaboration with the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (SSSA) led to the following results:
- 101 people participated in the full master's course or completed some of its modules.
- 147 modules were attended by members of the Ethiopian Electoral Commission and civil society,
- 22 full master's degrees were delivered within the framework of these projects.
Within the framework of the EU-funded projects implemented by ECES in Jordan (EU Support to Jordanian Democratic Institutions & Development), a total of 43 people participated in 58 different modules of the MEPA Master's Course.
We are proud of the work that has been done and that some of the students who started within the framework of the InnovElection project have gone on to finalise their studies.
