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The Pedro Pires Summer Leadership Programme

The Pedro Pires Institute for Leadership held its second programme in Leadership and Innovation in Development Management, which ended on 22 June. The programme was an intensive two weeks of classes and site visits.

The summer course is a result of a partnership between the Pedro Pires Institute for Leadership and Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts, U.S.A, and aims to enable and empower the minds of young leaders in Cabo Verde with critical, strategic thinking of ethics and values that will help the development of the country and African continent.

The group of 10 trainees consisted of professionals from the private and public sector. The classes were in Entrepreneurship/Innovation, Public Management of Infrastructure projects, Communication Crisis, Public Policy Analysis, Legislative and Executive and Public Finance. In order to compliment the classroom lectures, the programme included meetings with local and state leaders, business leaders and also site visits to cultural institutions such as Edward Kennedy Institute and Berklee College of Music, where they had the opportunity to listen to a lecture about “The Relationship Between Music and Society in the Modern World” by Dr. Bill Bandfield, Director of African Studies at Berklee.

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Certificate ceremony led by the President of the Bridgewater State University, Dana Molher-Faria, the President Elect of the BSU, Fred Clark, the Coordinator of the course, Victor Borges, the Executive Director of the Pedro Pires Institute for Cape Verdean Studies at Bridgewater State University, João Rosa and the Executive Director of Pedro Pires Institute for Leadership in Cabo Verde, Indira Pires.

Certificate ceremony with President of the Bridgewater State University, Dana Molher-Faria, Sandra Martins (one of the trainees) the Coordinator of the course, Victor Borges, the President Elect of the BSU, Fred Clark and the Executive Director of the Pedro Pires Institute for Cape Verdean Studies at Bridgewater State University, João Rosa.

Last class of trainees, in Public Policy/Public Finance deliver by Dr. Deniz Leuenberger, Professor and Faculty Director for Institute for Policy Analysis and Regional Engagement and Victor Borges, Coordenator of the Leadership Course in CV.

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