DESCRIPTION AND STRATEGY The development agenda of a large group of donor agencies, both at bilateral and multilateral level, has been increasingly shaped by concerns for sustainability in agricultural and rural areas. The Graduate Summer School focuses every year on a key issue related to some of the different interrelated dimensions of sustainability in agriculture: the ecological, the social, the economic and the international dimension. The International Cooperation and Sustainable Development Policies Graduate Summer School will focus on the different strategies and policies aimed to promote sustainable rural development. OBJECTIVES The International Cooperation and Sustainable Development Policies Summer School seeks to offer a deep analysis of the theoretical, legal and operational aspects related to the planning and management of agro-environmental systems, and, on this basis, develop sound methodologies for an active policy of endogenous sustainable development in agricultural and rural areas.