{"id":1591,"date":"2011-12-20T00:54:54","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T00:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2012-01-15T00:07:06","modified_gmt":"2012-01-15T00:07:06","slug":"belgium-european-master-in-agricultural-food-and-environmental-policy-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/?p=1591","title":{"rendered":"Belgium: European Master in Agricultural, Food and Environmental Policy Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The duration of the programme is 24 months. It starts in\u00a0September 2012. The host institution is the Catholic University of Louvain.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n


\nImportant notice:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

For the 2012\/13 academic year: The online application tool for both non-European and European students will be activated again from September 15, 2011 until January 10, 2012. \u00a0Applications received during this period (all applications must have been postmarked on January 10, 2012 <\/span><\/strong>at the latest) will be considered for general admission into the programme AND for an Erasmus Mundus scholarship. The deadline for students that wish to apply for admission into the programme but NOT for an Erasmus Scholarship are March 31, 2012 for Non-European applicants and April 30, 2012 for European applicants.<\/span>
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\nCourse description:
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\nThe European Master in Agricultural, Food and Environmental Policy Analysis aims at providing a high quality education in designing and assessing public policies targeted to the agricultural and food sector as well as the rural environment. \u00a0This European Master responds to the increasing need to better understand and anticipate the various and often complex socio-economic and environmental effects of these policies either in a functioning market economy as in the European Union or in economies in a development or transition phase. \u00a0The European Master offers a two-year academic curriculum with integrated and advanced theoretical, methodological and empirical courses in economics and quantitative methods as well as in agricultural, food and environmental sciences, agricultural and trade policy, environmental and natural resource policy, rural development policy and agribusiness management and market analysis. To connect theory and methodology to practice, a problem solving project is developed and presented as a master thesis at the end of the two-year curriculum.<\/p>\n

The European Master is jointly organised by five leading European educational and research institutions: \u00a0the Corvinius University of Budapest (CUB) in Hungary, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in Sweden, the Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms Universit\u00e4t Bonn (UBonn) in Germany, the Universit\u00e9 catholique de Louvain (UCL) in Belgium and the Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Spain. \u00a0These five partner universities are recognised worldwide for the quality of their educational programme and scientific achievements in agricultural, environmental and economic sciences. \u00a0The required 120 ECTS credit points are structured into three blocks: \u00a0a minimum of two semesters of studies (55 ECTS) at a first partner university, as well as two semesters of studies (60 ECTS) at a second partner university, and two joint summer schools (5 ECTS) at partner universities. \u00a0The language of instruction and examination is English for most of the courses in three partner universities while it is either French at UCL or Spanish at UPC for most of the courses. \u00a0The Master degree is awarded as a double degree from the two home and host universities.<\/p>\n

This European Master is accessible to candidates holding a bachelor degree or a recognized equivalent academic degree with a minimum of 180 ECTS or 3 years university study from an accredited institution, with sufficient undergraduate training in economics and agricultural or environmental sciences, with an excellent scholastic average, and with fluency in English but also French or Spanish if attending either UCL or UPC respectively.<\/p>\n

Recipients of this European Master are qualified to understand the fundamentals of public policies oriented to the agricultural and food sector, rural areas and natural resources, develop and use quantitative methods to perform rigorous socio-economic and environmental assessment of these public policies, and provide sound and relevant policy recommendations for a more sustainable development of this sector and rural areas. \u00a0They are qualified to take responsibilities in international, national and regional agencies, non-governmental organisations, consultancy firms, professional organisations and private companies<\/p>\n

Scholarships and insurance<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The AFEPA consortium charges European students and non-European students a flat and common tuition fee of 3,000 Euro and 6,000 Euro per year respectively to cover the costs of selection, registration, university tuition, summer schools, course exams, thesis examination, local language support, library access, insurances, and administrative expenditures for the four-semester period. This flat rate is the same whatever the itinerary of the Master student. It does not include travel and accommodation costs and all other costs related to application documents, visas and residence permits. <\/p>\n

Admitted European and non-European students pay an advance payment of 200 Euro in deduction to the tuition fee to secure their enrolment in the European Master in Agricultural, Food and Environmental Policy Analysis as soon as they have received the official email of admission from the AFEPA Coordination Office. For students that are not recipients of an Erasmus Mundus scholarship, enrolment in the AFEPA European Master is only official after the payment of the balance of the annual tuition fee during the first two weeks of the first semester of the academic programme. Tuition fees are centrally paid to a unique bank account of the Coordination Office.<\/p>\n

Student scholarships<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n