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European Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation (E.MA) in Venice : call for applications for the academic year 2008/2009
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The European Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation (E.MA) in Venice is attached to the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC). The deadline for the applications for the year 2008/2009 is 28 March 2008.

The E.MA is an intensive one-year advanced master’s programme carried out joinly by 41 European Universities. Its aims to educate 90 professionals annually and to provide its graduates with practical experience in human rights and democracy. The programme consists of a fall semester (from September to January) in Venice and a spring semester (from February to July) in one of the participating universities. Students are invited to participate in a training field trip and to follow courses in an area of specialisation of their own choice and to undertake personal supervised research.

Applicants are required to hold an university degree of a high standard and must have 240 ECTS credits normally in a field relevant to human rights, including disciplines in law, social sciences, and humanities. Applicants completing the degree entry requirements subsequently to the application deadline are requested to provide a current transcript of exams. Eventual admittance into the Programme will be conditional upon documentation of completed degree prior to the beginning of the academic year. The criteria used during the selection process are : academic ability and background, experience, motivation and language competence.

After successfully passing exams and completing a Master’s thesis, students will be awarded the European Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation jointly conferred by Universities of the EIUC/E.MA network that ratified the Joint Degree Agreement.

The 15 best students receive a 6-month internship for practical work in a governmental, inter-governmental or non-governmental organisation. In addition, the EU-UN Advanced Internship Programme offers a one-year internship in Geneva and New York to 5 E.MA. laureates and E.MA also facilitates networking and access to the job market for its graduates.

The Programme is bilingual: English/French.

The deadline for the applications for the year 2008/2009 is 28 March 2008.

For more information, please consult the E.MA website.

For application forms, please contact the EIUC/E.MA Secretariat at: secretariat@eiuc.org. 

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Publication Date 27-01-2008



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