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AEES Executive Certificate in Economic diplomacy and cooperation

Hold a cross-border file, a funder and a cooperation that delivers. This AEES certification attests economic diplomacy and cooperation.

  • AssessmentProfessional assessment
  • Attempts2
  • PreparationIncluded
  • France
  • Canada
Description

Economic diplomacy and cooperation

A vague familiarity with “Economic diplomacy and cooperation” is no longer enough. This belongs with Geopolitics and public affairs. You negotiate with states, you do economic diplomacy and you read a regulation. People are hired to decide, not just to name the topic. This AEES certification is for professionals, managers and leaders who want to hold a cross-border file, negotiate a funder and make a cooperation deliver. No diploma is required. What is required is a working command of written French, and the will to show the subject on a real file, in a company, a public body or a partner organisation.

You are not joining a long degree. You take “Economic diplomacy and cooperation” seriously enough to use it, and seriously enough for someone else to read it on a file. Everything happens online, around a job you already have. You prepare if you need to, then you sit a professional assessment. The AEES Executive Certificate, if it is issued, is proof in your name, and it can be checked. It holds in a CV, a move or a cooperation. It is a short specialisation, issued by a higher-education institution. You see at once what you are buying: a targeted title, not a course catalogue.

Afterwards you can carry “Economic diplomacy and cooperation” into a team, a file or a new responsibility, and explain your choices to a manager, a funder or a partner institution. Others will see that you can hold a cross-border file, negotiate a funder and make a cooperation deliver, including outside your own organisation. If you succeed, AEES issues an AEES Executive Certificate in your name, with a unique serial number that can be checked in the public register. The award stays in your workspace. It shows a professional judgement you have demonstrated, useful for a CV, a new post or work in common.

Skills

What this certificate attests

The capabilities the assessment attests if you pass.

  • Hold a cross-border file
  • Negotiate a funder
  • Make a cooperation deliver
  • Negotiate funding without promising the impossible
  • Get the money
  • Hold the relationship when the project slips
ESCO classification — European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations

ESCO, the European skills vocabulary

This is the European Commission’s classification of skills, competences, qualifications and occupations. This certificate is linked to it through the skills below. Each link opens the official record.

Preparation included

To prepare for the assessment

After purchase, a preparatory course is available: 6 written modules, without an instructor, at your own pace. You are not required to follow it before opening the assessment. Each module sets out the notions, a commented case, the points to keep and a FAQ. It covers Interest, Protocol, File and Funder.

When you are ready, you enter the assessment: a file already open, incomplete facts, conflicting views. You move through successive decisions. This is not a full taught programme with pedagogical supervision.

Structured written course

Notions, objectives and concrete examples, organised progressively.

Applied case

A commented professional situation to anchor the theory.

FAQ and preparation

Frequent doubts, then questions to go further on your own.

  1. Module 1: Interest Economic diplomacy is not about abstract goodwill. It is about organized exchanges where each side must be better off than in its next best alternative. This module trains you to uncover what each party truly values, to translate that into concrete terms, and to construct a deal space that survives scrutiny from legal, financial, political, and operational angles. Real files cross borders and collide with different mandates, election cycles, funding rules, and corporate governance. You need a practical way to map interests, not slogans. We will work with a short set of tools that force clarity: who gains what, when, for how long, at what risk, and subject to which non-negotiables.
  2. Module 2: Protocol in Economic Diplomacy and Cooperation Protocol is a set of recognized usages that make interactions predictable across borders. It frames how people are received, addressed, seated and seen. When held well, it reduces friction so that parties can focus on decisions, numbers and terms. When held poorly, it distracts, causes loss of face and can derail a file for the wrong reasons. In economic diplomacy and cooperation, protocol shows up in small but visible moments: who speaks first, which flag stands where, how a note verbale is phrased, what title appears on a nameplate, how a gift is recorded, when press are invited. These moments are not the deal. They are the conditions that let the deal move.
  3. Module 3: File In economic diplomacy and cooperation, decisions rarely fail because of ideas. They fail because the file is not ready when the window opens. A usable file starts with a precise decision ask, contains a traceable fact base, and presents options the cabinet can approve without a second meeting. This module shows you how to get there, fast, without noise. You will learn a simple structure to capture the problem, the numbers, the parties, the risks, the law, and the time path. You will practice writing a two-page cabinet case that earns trust because it is concise, sourced, and bounded. You will also learn to maintain the file so that when circumstances change, the case updates in hours, not weeks.
  4. Module 4: Funder - Negotiating Funding Without Promising the Impossible Funding in economic diplomacy is not a pitch contest. It is a problem-solving exercise under institutional constraints, eligibility rules, and board calendars. Funders are accountable to mandates and risk policies. They are not buying your ambition; they are underwriting a cash flow and a governance set-up that must stand in front of auditors. Your role is to convert a policy goal into a fundable structure, present a coherent risk allocation, and negotiate terms that you can actually implement within the legal and operational limits of the sponsors and host authorities. Cross-border files add layers: multiple jurisdictions, currencies, sanction regimes, procurement rules, and sometimes different environmental and social standards. They often require blended instruments to align cash flows with long-term public value. Sequencing is critical. Introduce funders at the right time with the right package. If you ask too early, you get a generic no. If too late, you get a term sheet that collides with your contracts or approvals.
  5. Module 5/6, Delivery: Aligning Cash Flows and Deliverables in Cross-Border Cooperation Delivery is where a cooperation file turns into tangible outcomes. It is also where many good projects stall: suppliers ship before payment terms are ready, funders hold disbursements for missing evidence, or counterpart agencies struggle with customs, tax, or audit queries. This module shows you how to synchronize the movement of cash with the movement of goods, services, and results, across jurisdictions and institutional rules. The core challenge is to bring three calendars into one operational plan: the funder’s disbursement calendar, the implementer’s production and logistics calendar, and the beneficiary’s acceptance and operationalization calendar. If those calendars are misaligned, risks multiply: cash tied up in inventory, penalties for late delivery, blocked bank transfers, or unverified outputs. You will learn how to build a control architecture that keeps these calendars in step.
  6. Module 6, Crisis: Holding the relationship when the project slips In economic diplomacy and cooperation, projects do not fail in a single day. They drift. A late customs clearance becomes a missed milestone, then strains a funding covenant, then cascades into reputational and political pressure. The professional test is not how to avoid every slip. It is how quickly and credibly you detect slippage, frame it, and convert partners from blame to joint problem solving while respecting the rules that govern public money and cross-border engagements. This module focuses on crisis as a practical operating condition, not as drama. You will learn how to move from noise to facts, how to anchor funders and authorities in a shared narrative, and how to use contract and financing levers to gain time without promising the impossible. You will work with situation reports, decision logs, change requests, and basic continuity tools that fit public donors and mixed public, private partnerships.