Diplôme sur le Renseignement et les Menaces globales (DiReM) at Sciences Po Saint-Germain-en-Laye

Establishment diploma for professionals and students holding a bac+4, covering the security threats facing France and the means of preventing and countering them. Designed with the Académie du Renseignement. 120 hours of in-person teaching over 18 days, one 18-hour remote seminar and a dissertation; 30 places; eligible for CPF. The 2026 promotion started on 7 October 2026 and the next opens in October 2027 (applications from May 2027).

Faculty: Sciences Po Saint-Germain-en-Laye  |  Duration: 1 year (promotion starting in October)  |  Study mode: part-time, French  |  Intake: October  |  Location: Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Île-de-France, France

What you will study

Threats module (political violence and radicalisation, jihadist Salafism, political radicalism, organised crime economics) and an intelligence module (transversal approaches, history and sociology, global economic intelligence, counter-terrorism intelligence), taught by academics and intelligence professionals.

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