Teaching Case Studies

NORTIA teaching plans are open-access and freely downloadable resources. They are “free to use” and “free to adjust” to make them work for your class but we would expect all users to use appropriate referencing.

List of Case Studies

Suggestions for Use

Each NORTIA teaching case study consists of two parts: the “case study” to be shared with students, and the “teaching plan”. The latter provides insights into the learning objective, the rationale, and suggestions of how to use the teaching case study and is meant as guidance for the academic instructor who aims to use the teaching case study in their teaching.

For further guidance on how to teach with case studies we recommend the “case teaching resources” from the Harvard Kennedy School, and in particular their detailed guidance on “how to use teaching case studies” in practice.

he NORTIA teaching case studies are a starting point for European foreign policy teaching. In practice though, you as instructors will probably adjust the materials to your course set-up, the overall learning objectives, the background knowledge of your students, your teaching style etc. We would therefore be really keen to hear from you on how you used the teaching case study, made it work for your setting and how it supported your teaching and the learning of your students. Please share your insights with us at eu.nortia@gmail.com.

Acknowledgements

This activity would not have been possible without the inspiring support from many colleagues and the financial support of the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union under the grant agreement 587725-EPP-1-2017-1-NL-EPPJMO-NETWORK. Particular thanks goes to Federica Bicchi (LSE) for inspiring NORTIA with this initiative and to Erin Baumann, Associate Director of Professional Pedagogy at Harvard Kennedy School for sharing her experience and expertise on case writing in our trainings. We also thank Federica Bicchi, Robert Kissack, Heidi Maurer, Gergana Noutcheva, Ben Tonra and Richard Whitman for assisting our case writers and Özlem Terzi, Maxine David and Niels van Willigen for providing valuable feedback to our draft cases. And of course, we thank our case writers Dorina Baltag, Carlos Bravo, Youssef Cherif, Nele Ewers-Peters, Noe Hinck and Marianna Lovato for volunteering to go on this experimental journey with us and for taking their case studies beyond what we would have hoped for.