Each new crisis seems to confirm one observation: the world is becoming more fragmented and closed off. Europe is discovering its vulnerability. Dependent on Russian gas, Chinese lithium, Taiwanese semiconductors and American technology, it is paying the price for decades of deindustrialisation and bets on a stable world order. The promise of a world pacified by trade is coming up against a brutal return to power struggles. The time for illusions is over: autonomy is becoming a condition for survival, and ‘strategic sovereignty’ is becoming essential. Europe must make choices: produce on its own soil, control its data, secure its supplies, protect its populations without giving up cooperation. But sovereignty has an economic and political cost, and the challenge is to find a new balance.
Attentive to these topics, the Jury of the 37th Competition will reward the best theses (Master 1 and 2) in Economics and Finance, in French or English, that delve into one of the following themes and lead to concrete proposals:
With this in mind, we invite all Master's 1 or Master's 2 students whose thesis topic addresses one or more of these suggestions with a forward-looking perspective to submit their application to the 37th International Master Thesis Competition in Economics and Finance (37CIMEF), for which registration is open from September 1st until December 31st, 2025.