Database of student-led think tanks

The Building for the Future Initiative, supported by the Open Society Foundations, offers grants to selected student-led think tanks to strengthen their leadership capabilities and promote new perspectives on local and regional policy issues and policy research questions. During the initiative, OTT developed a database of student-led think tanks. You can find their information and links to their Open Think Tank Directory profiles below.

If you are part of a student-led think tank, please contact us to be included in the resource.

Student-led think tank University OTTD profile/ Contact info
1 King’s Think Tank, UK King’s College London Email
2 York Student Think Tank, UK University of York
3 Déclic, France Sciences Po Paris Email
4 Warwick Think Tank, UK University of Warwick OTTD profile, Email
5 European Student Think Tank, Across Europe N/A OTTD profile, Email
6 STEAR – Student Think Tank for Europe-Asia Relations, Belgium and Singapore N/A OTTD profile, Email
7 EUTOPIA Student Think Tank (EUSTT), Across Europe The Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca (Romania), the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (Belgium), the Ca’Foscari University of Venice (Italy), CY Cergy Paris Université (France), the Technische Universität Dresden (Germany), the University of Gothenburg (Sweden), the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), the NOVA University Lisbon (Portugal), the University of Pompeu Fabra (Spain) and the University of Warwick (United Kingdom).  Email
8 China Development Student Think Tank, USA Syracuse University, Boston University, George Washington University, and Johns Hopkins University Email
9 OxPolicy: The Oxford Student Think Tank, UK University of Oxford
10 European Horizons, USA Yale University Email
11 Students for Liberty, USA N/A Email
12 EPIS Think Tank e.V., Germany N/A OTTD Profile, Email
13 Leeds Policy Institute, UK Leeds OTTD Profile, Email
14 The Security Distillery, UK, Italy, Czech Republic University of Glasgow, Dublin City University, University of Trento and Charles University Prague. OTTD Profile
15 The Peterloo Institute, UK N/A OTTD Profile, Email
16 CEU Student Think Tank, Austria and Hungary Central European University Email
17 FORTHEM Think Tank, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Romania, Spain Jyväskylän yliopisto, Finland, Université de Bourgogne, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Latvijas Universitāte, Universitetet i Agder, Uniwersytet Opolski, Universitatea Lucian Blaga din Sibiu, Universitat de València Email
18 The Wilberforce Society, UK University of Cambridge OTTD Profile, Email
19 The LSESU Think Tank, UK London School of Economics Email
20 The Political Institute of Action Research, UK University of St Andrews Email
21 Vanguard Think Tank, Multi-regional Johns Hopkins, Sciences Po, the University of Hong Kong, and other universities Email
22 Bentham Brooks Institute, UK University College London Email
23 Grow Think Tank, France N/A OTTD Profile, Email
24 NTNU Student Think, Norway NTNU
25 NEO Network, Switzerland Swiss universities Email
26 Uthink, Switzerland University of Lausanne
27 Student Network for Open Science, Germany N/A Email
28 Génération Maastricht, France N/A
29 The Buchanan Institute, Scotland University of Edinburgh Email
30 Unibolo JEP, Italy University of Bologna Email
31 Brugge Students’ Institute on the Future of Europe, Belgium College of Europe

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