SPP & LEAD Announce Partnership on Skills for Impact Curriculum
SPP and LEAD, the Mercator Capacity Building Center for Leadership & Advocacy, are pleased to announce their new partnership. The collaboration will culminate in the development and delivery of a joint Skills For Impact (SFI) curriculum.
Running throughout the duration of SPP’s flagship 2year Master of Public Administration (MPA) program, the SFI curriculum will offer a variety of intense courses introducing students to vital public policy and administration skills, such as leadership, negotiation, public speaking and communication, budgeting and fundraising, and project management. The SFI curriculum will be taught by professionals with extensive experience in their respective fields and will occupy as many as 25-28 full days during the two-year MPA. Its diverse modules will typically last between one and three days each. The SFI curriculum is mandatory for all SPP students.
The SFI curriculum aims to equip SPP´s students with the necessary practical skills to make a difference toward improving public policy worldwide. The SFI curriculum alongside SPP´s signature “passion project” defines the distinctive SPP approach to teaching, learning and mentoring.
LEAD, the Mercator Capacity Building Center for Leadership & Advocacy is an independent, non-profit organization based in Berlin that strives to support executives, especially from the non-profit sector, in assuming leadership responsibility for the public good. LEAD’s curriculum of trainings, labs and master classes equips participants with practical skills in political communication and public leadership. LEAD also focuses on the roles of advocacy and leadership in a growingly globalized, networked and digitalized world, partnering with academia to conduct applied research in the field. Thirdly, LEAD fuels the international discourse on public leadership and advocacy by hosting panels, conferences and events.
LEAD is funded by Stiftung Mercator and led by Tobias Leipprand, a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government with extensive experience in the field of leadership training.