Applications are open for the free international summer school. The School is designed to offer two weeks “full immersion”  in user charges regulation of local public services (e.g. waste, water, public transport, district heating, sport facilities) and is mainly addressed to undergraduate students at their last year, PhD and graduate students and officials from the Public Administration (municipalities, counties, regional bodies) and regulatory agencies.

Moreover, The Turin School of Local Regulation is a network initiative that intends to offer international high-level research, education and capacity-building experience. Further, The School adopts a policy-oriented approach, with the aim of spreading the culture and instruments of regulation and regulatory reform at the local level, connecting academic research with local policy-makers, public officials, professionals, local regulatory agencies, NGOs, consumers’ associations, chambers of commerce.

The course lasts two weeks and also, is articulated in three parts:
– Firstly, it is articulated by a theoretical module
– Then, industry analysis
– Finally, case studies (with a virtual regulatory final report prepared by attendants)

Benefits

• Selected participants can benefit from very low registration fees; Further,  free registration from non-OECD countries.
• Also, registration includes 2-week free accommodation in Turin.

Selection criteria

Curricula are evaluated on the basis of three main criteria:

• the relevance of applicant’s studies and professional experience / Further, current job position to the topics of the Summer School programme
• Additionally, the balanced geographical distribution of selected participants (OECD / non-OECD members; distribution per continent; additionally, the inclusion of applicants from Countries non represented in the previous editions)
• a balanced distribution of educational background (e.g. economics; environmental engineering; law; also, public administration; …)

Moreover, in the case of curricula with a similar score,  some attention is given to the selection of profiles with expertise in different sectors relevant to the domain of regulation of LPS (e.g. water cycle, waste, energy, …).

Fees and accommodation :

Low rates and free accommodation.
Further, Registration fees for admitted applicants are as follows: