The integration of teaching at the postgraduate level with research is bidirectional and offers various economies of scale along with other advantages. First and foremost, teaching in individual postgraduate courses draws upon the instructors’ research work and helps them to develop it in new, productive directions (research-led teaching).
For example, the findings of the research projects DATAPOPEU and DATIS have been incorporated into the postgraduate course “Methodology of Political Science” (Instructor: Andreadis). Similarly, the results of the pan-European project European Election Study (EES) are included in the course “Electoral Sociology” (Instructor: Teperoglou). In the same course, students also work with data from the research project “Friends and Enemies of the European Union: The characteristics and consequences of the divide between the two groups (ProConEU)”, in which the instructor participated, and which was coordinated by the University of Munich.
Secondly, the teaching and research footprint of the MSc programme “Political Analysis” is amplified through its organic connection with other departmental structures that serve the goal of political analysis (e.g., the Laboratory of Applied Political Analysis), which already has a strong record of activities in which postgraduate students systematically participate. Thus, these multi-level synergies contribute to increased outreach, enhanced quality, economies of scale, and the multiplicative potential of individual activities—thereby enhancing overall sustainability in the broadest sense. The participation of faculty members teaching in the MSc programme in international research projects and networks is available here.