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20/11/2020
LEAP Student Grants 2021
LEAP invites affiliated students to submit proposals for research projects on poverty and development issues through the "LEAP Student Grant" project. NEW deadline: January 30, 2021.
17/11/2020
LEAP Student Naila Shofia wins Econ Job Market Best Paper Award by Unicredit Foundation
Congratulations to our LEAP student Naila Maya Shofia who just won the seventh edition of the Econ Job Market Best Paper Award by Unicredit Foundation with her project: "Portable Seclusion: Religious Head Scarf and Labor Force Participation" funded through the LEAP Student Grant Program.
13/10/2020
LEAP's Project Against Infibulation by USAID
The American development agency granted funding to a simple, low cost idea to reduce the rates of female genital mutilation in Africa
On zoom
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LEAP Development Coffee Kick-off
Wednesday, September 30 - 17:00 | Welcome to LEAP: Alexia Delfino and Livia Alfonsi
21/07/2020
Summer School in International Development co-sponsored by LEAP
"Investment Choices in Development Economics". Friday 4 September 2020
Zoom virtual session organised by Lucia Corno (LEAP and Cattolica University) and
Mariapia Mendola (University of Milan Bicocca and Centro Studi Luca d’Agliano)
14/07/2020
Funding programme “Roberto Franceschi” for current students of Master of Science and PhD
Fondazione Roberto Franceschi Onlus establishes an annual research funding programme in the field of prevention, diagnosis and treatment of social pathologies and forms of social exclusion.
29/04/2020
Eliana La Ferrara Wins the 2020 Birgit Grodal Award
The prize is bestowed by the European Economic Association to a female economist for significant contributions to the profession.
06/03/2020
Summer School in International Development co-sponsored by LEAP
This year's topic is "Investment Choices in Development Economics". The deadline for application is May 25, 2020.
19/02/2020
Donation received from Fondazione Isacchi Samaja
A donation to study more in depth the correlation between school education and marital age with the phenomenon of FGM in Somalia
19/02/2020
LEAP Blog Competition
"The Potential of Machine Learning for Development Economics Research Data" by Armin Satzger