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Die Studierenden vertiefen ihre politikwissenschaftlichen Kenntnisse durch die Setzung von Schwerpunkten aus den diversen Teilbereichen des Faches.

Theoretical background of regional policy; regions in the EU and in the Council of Europe (focusing on the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities as the institutional representation of regions); development of EU regional policy up to the current funding period; Committee of the Regions and Congress of Local and Regional Authorities as actors in European regional policy (recent developments and practical examples); cross-border co-operation as an instrument of European regional policy (instruments of cross-border cooperation and their implementation, current developments and practical examples)

Teaching, critical examination of research literature, group works

Group presentation and Oral exam

Wolfgang Wessels, Das politische System der Europäischen Union (Springer, 2018); Bache, Ian, Stephen George und Simon Bulmer, Politics in the European Union (Oxford University Press, 2011); Hooghe, Liesbet (Hg.), Staudigl Fritz, et al., Einführung in das EU-Recht (utb, 2015)

positive Absolvierung der Pflichtmodule 1 bis 3