CPPR Academy offers training and professional development opportunities by means of internships, short-term courses and workshops for students and mid-career professionals seeking to traverse the public policy space. Our immersive programmes are curated to stimulate bright minds in political discourse who can engender significant social impact. All CPPR Academy programmes impart training in theory and praxis, with evidence-based research supported by debates and case studies.
Policy matters now more than ever. CPPR Academy is dedicated to provide individuals with exposure to the real-world policy making process, empowering them to use their passion to become agents of change.The Academy offers the following programmes:
Objectives
- To provide high quality and affordable training, research and knowledge resources
- To curate unique and specific courses designed to explore contemporary issues and meet industrial demand
- To develop a rich and dynamic network of mentors, students and partner organisations
- To create an engaging learning environment characterised by a holistic approach towards understanding niche areas in research and policy, strategic studies, political economy, law and social issues
- To equip public policy enthusiasts with skills to effectively perform in complex policy environments
- To adopt an interdisciplinary approach to enable participants to coherently address current political, economic and social challenges.
Policy matters now more than ever. CPPR Academy is dedicated to provide individuals with exposure to the real-world policy making process, empowering them to use their passion to become agents of change.The Academy offers the following programmes:
Other Academy Activities
Start-up Entrepreneurship 101
Explore your entrepreneurial psyche with CPPR’s virtual bootcamp on Start-up Culture & Entrepreneurship. The six hour online training programme offered a concentrated learning experience on the ideation and creation of a for-profit or social endeavor. Through this virtual bootcamp, participants learnt the strategic approach required to establish a business in the real-time regulatory ecosystem of Kerala and foresee the policy-related dimensions. Participants learnt how to assess the business and market allure for their venture idea, understand the critical road maps and procedures, focus on client acquiring techniques for early foothold and learnt to create full budget summaries from the best resource people in the subject area. The virtual bootcamp was concluded with an Elevator Pitch Competition; all participants of the bootcamp were challenged to give their best Elevator Pitch; from the entire cohort 8 were shortlisted to compete in the final round.
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Semester at Sea (SAS) programme
CPPR hosts students of SAS, a unique, multiple country study-abroad programme which is conducted aboard a ship that docks at several locations during the course period. During their time in Kochi, CPPR co-hosts a module with SAS. The University of Virginia is the programme’s academic sponsor.To read more about the previous Semester at Sea hosted by CPPR, click the links below
CPPR’s Finishing School for Law
The programme aims to instil in freshly graduated law students the confidence and courage they need to start a new career. In its third installment, the Finishing School aims to polish students up on the finer points of social life which is just as important as the academic rigour they are put through in law school—from mastering the right handshake to speaking confidently in public.More from CPPR Academy
December 20, 2021
Media plays a pivotal role in communicating the achievements and challenges of a policy. The more informed journalism would decide the direction and focus of the policy. Centre for Public Policy Research (CPPR) in collaboration with Friedrich Naumann Foundation (FNF) […]
June 24, 2021
Date & Time: June 17, 2021 at 05:00 PM Webinar: United States and India as Partners in Climate Action: The Clean Energy Agenda Proceedings Report About the Event: The Centre for Public Policy Research (CPPR) organized a webinar on “United […]
May 17, 2021
KOCHI: Centre for Public Policy Research (CPPR) has announced the results of ATLAS- CPPR South Asia Public Policy Challenge. The first prize was secured by Bhishm Khanna for his policy brief on ‘Predictive Justice: Using AI for Justice’. The second […]
December 1, 2020
Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA), New Delhi and Centre for Public Policy Research(CPPR), Kochi is pleased to announce the winners of the first edition of the ICWA-CPPR Essay Competition in Malayalam. The competition was held as part of ICWA’s […]
June 3, 2019
CPPR conducted the 7th edition of its prestigious Global Policy School (GPS) from May 1–5, 2019 in Kochi. Over the years, GPS has attracted participants from Europe, Africa, Australia, the Americas and Asia. This year GPS 2019 offered 15 aspiring […]
April 5, 2019
Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth (CVV) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Centre for Public Policy Research (CPPR), a Kochi-based public policy think tank on April 1, 2019 to introduce MA in Public Policy and Governance from 2019 academic year. The association […]
March 6, 2019
Event: Interaction between Semester at sea students and CPPR Date: February 28, 2019 Venue: Radisson Blu, Kochi Foreign students and teachers from over 200 Universities reached Kochi on 28 February as part of their study programme ‘Semester at Sea’, held […]
March 1, 2019
They get to know #MeToo movement and its impact on media Around 30 students from foreign universities who sailed into Kochi on Thursday as part of their study programme Semester at Sea partook in discussions on the #MeToo movement and its influence […]
February 28, 2019
KOCHI: Foreign students and teachers from around 200 universities will reach Kochi on Thursday, as part of their study programme ‘Semester at Sea’, which is being held onboard the luxury vessel MV World Odyssey. It is a multi-country study abroad programme […]