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Human Rights and Multi-level Governance

Tuition fee €2,642 per year

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Application fee €30 one-time

This fee is non-refundable.

Deposit €205 one-time

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Overview

The Master’s degree aims at developing a universal culture of human rights. With a strong policy and action-oriented approach, where research and lecturing activities reflect the transnational and transcultural dimensions of human rights studies, it provides professional knowledge and skills to promote and guarantee the respect of human rights. Human rights law, multi-level governance of human sustainable development and security are conceptual paradigms of reference throughout the
programme.

Programme structure

1st Year: International Law of Human Rights; Human Rights in International Politics; Constitutional Development and Democratisation; History of International Organisations/International History of the Balkans/International History of the Middle East; Economic Globalization and Human Rights/Statistics for Social Science; International Cooperation and Humanitarian Response Operations/Global South and Decolonial Option/Refugee Human Rights Protection; Langue Française et Droits de l’Homme/Lengua Española y Derechos Humanos/Italian as a Second Language.

2nd Year: Social and Financial Sustainability for Small Business/Economics of Inequality; Culture, Society and Human Rights/Religions and Human Rights; Regional Human Rights Systems/European Union Law and Human Rights; Women’s Human Rights/Children’s Rights/Human Rights and Politcal Participation; Human Rights and International Justice/Human Rights Practice/Labour and Global Social Justice/Work, Migration and Globalization/History of Genocides; Internship.

Career opportunities

Graduates work as human rights officers, as researchers and policy planners in international, national and nongovernmental organisations, in the diplomatic service, in the public sector, in trade unions or political parties; as project managers and field officers of humanitarian aid; as journalists; as experts of social responsibility units and international relations departments within corporate organisations.

Apply now! Academic year 2025/26
Application deadline
2 Feb 2025, 23:59:59
Central European Time
Studies commence
1 Oct 2025
Apply now! Academic year 2025/26
Application deadline
2 Feb 2025, 23:59:59
Central European Time
Studies commence
1 Oct 2025