What are the complex relationships between Schistosomiasis, agricultural production, and migration in an African context?
What are the legal obligations to protect and assist persons with disabilities during conflict and what are the policies and practices required to put these obligations into effect?
How does gender shape the reintegration process of migrants and how do patterns of return mobilities and reintegration impact upon gender in the Gambia, Guinea and Senegal?
What are the conditions under which deaths in custody should be investigated and how can they be prevented?
What are relevant policy instruments for air pollution reduction in developing urban contexts and how do they vary in effectiveness?
What are the interactions between agroecological and indigenous territories – potential collaborations and possible conflicts?
What are the challenges of the gig economy in terms of social dialogue and workers’ protection?
What are the corporate citizenship approaches of Swiss medium sized enterprises and large multinational corporations in their participation to the UN Global Compact?
Which types of intertemporal cost distributions are likely to find majority support in industrialised emitter countries?
When and how does increasing market power translate into regulatory power to shape the rules of international trade?
What is the contribution of skilled migrants to the innovation capacity of the host country?
What are the effects of different types of trade policy measures on global food price volatility and what local, alternative measures can be adopted to foster food security in volatile global markets?
What are the challenges faced by medical and food companies, by humanitarian IOs and NGOs that deliver food and medicine to heavily sanctioned countries?
How can developing countries compensate for their limited power resources by deploying successful strategies in the context of climate change compensation negotiations?
What is the relationship between teleworking and well being?
How do European countries’ decisions to return Syrian refugees impact the refugee returns in regional host states?
How can we provide new methods of European Consensus elaboration in order to answer complex and controversial moral and political questions surrounding human rights law in Europe ?
What are the practices, social relations and power relations to social reproduction within the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE)? What is the contribution of SSE to the renewal of public action and policies in the field of production and social reproduction?
To what extent does violence against civilians by armed actors increase the risk of conflict escalation and civil war?
How widespread is the increased susceptibility of insecticide-resistant Anopheles mosquitoes to Plasmodium infection and what are the risks associated with this phenomenon in relationship to the use of bed nets and insecticides? What policies should be adopted to reduce the risk of a major crisis in malaria control?
What are the factors that lead states and transnational actors to choose between formal intergovernmental organisations, informal intergovernmental organisations and transnational governance networks to structure their interactions and govern global problems?
To what extent do institutional reforms and participation mechanism increase the external stakeholder input in formal and informal governance arrangements?
What are the barriers and opportunities for compost-based urban farming and gardening in Dschang, Cameroon and Lausanne, Switzerland?
What are the roles played by migrant organisations in the context of transnational Senegalese migration, integration and development?
What are the key parameters of the asylum process that affect the subsequent integration of refugees?
What are the constraints and opportunies linked to migration for adolescent girls ? How do they affect their capacity to choose and to act to determine their future opportunities ?
To what extent can regional governance architectures of mountainous areas contribute to achieving the Millenium Development Goals in terms of integration of sustainable development principles and of reduction of biodiversity loss?
Why and how does centralized design prevail as a global gold standard for the urban sanitation sector even in the light of crisis and how does it influence project implementation under SDG6?
What are the impacts of LSLA on the local food system and how do they affect the decision-making processes of both men and women regarding household food security ?