Deadline:
February 04, 2025
Location(s)
Hungary Netherlands Spain United Kingdom
Budapest, Rotterdam, Barcelona, York
Overview
Mundus MAPP is an internationally recognized European leader in Policy Studies. It offers an interdisciplinary curriculum delivered by four outstanding European universities. Flexible choice of study tracks, practice components, highly diverse international student body, academic excellence applied to contemporary policy problems – this is Mundus MAPP.
Mundus MAPP/MUNMAPP is a two-year-long international joint Masters program in Public Policy, offered by four top-ranked European institutions: Central European University, Budapest (Hungary), International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam (the Netherlands), Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (Spain) and the University of York (UK). Established in 2007, the program operates as an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree Program funded by the European Commission.
Details
Mundus MAPP directly responds to the educational needs created by the rapidly changing global environment and new public policy challenges. The program equips graduates with the conceptual knowledge and hard skills that are necessary for understanding and decisively intervening in contemporary transnational policy problems, from climate change to international terrorism or financial regulatory failure.
It provides a detailed and systematic understanding of how political institutions, processes and public policies operate and interact from the global political economy through to national and local levels with a direct focus on European engagements at these levels of governance. Inter-disciplinarity and practical application of conceptual knowledge are hallmarks of Mundus MAPP.
Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree Scholarships and institutional scholarships offered by the Consortium institutions will be available for prospective students applying for the 2024-2026 study period.
Program structure and mobility tracks
Mundus MAPP is unique in the flexibility with which students can tailor their learning experiences to their individual needs through the selection of mobility tracks. Mobility tracks in the new joint degree each allow for a different focus while maintaining a uniform core of policy studies subjects.
- Political Economy and Development (ISS-IBEI track)
- Governance and Development (ISS-York track)
- Global Public Policy (CEU-IBEI track)
- European Public Policy (CEU-York track)
Students are exposed to a variety of European academic traditions and policy contexts through the study visits and internships. Moreover, all mobility tracks include exposure to either development studies or to a careful consideration of the impact of economic and democratic transition, rather than merely the experience of Western European or North American countries.
The ability to “mix and match” first and second year institutions (the mobility component) thus allows students to build up a specialisation within Mundus MAPP that is most suited to their individual career objectives. Each of the track-specific core course blocks complement the general core courses where students acquire common theoretical grounding in policy studies but provide somewhat different disciplinary perspectives.
Mundus MAPP includes a strong practice component, represented by the internship, the spring course/study-trip and courses taught with the participation of invited professionals. This is designed to allow students to observe the real world of policy-making, interact with practitioners, apply theoretical knowledge to practical policy problems, collect empirical (case study) material for research projects and theses, and build up professional contacts and networks that will facilitate their integration into the job-market.
Depending on where students intend to spend their first and second year they can choose between four different mobility tracks.
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
Mundus MAPP is open to both European and third country national students. Scholarships are provided for the best eligible applicants by the European Union’s Erasmus+ Programme, as well as by the Consortium institutions.
Minimum requirements are:
1) Educational background
For all tracks of the program, candidates need to have a Bachelors degree (completed at least three years of undergraduate study - normally at least Second Class).
Further, for CEU tracks (CEU-York and CEU-IBEI) only Bachelors degrees in the Social Sciences and some disciplines in the Arts and Humanities are eligible. Specifically:
- Bachelors degrees are automatically fully accepted in the following fields: International Studies (incl. International Relations), Political Science, Sociology, Social Studies; Administration Management, International Administration; Applied Economics, Economic Analysis, Public Service.
- Bachelors degrees are fully automatically accepted, provided that the candidate has at least half a year’s professional or research experience, in the following fields: any other field of the Social Sciences; Legal and Administration Sciences; Economics; National Defense and Military field and Security studies.
- Other Bachelors degrees in the Arts and Humanities may be accepted on a case-by-case basis, if the Consortium’s admissions evaluators can verify from the submitted transcripts that the applicant has followed courses and/or has done research in the fields listed above.
The fields above are defined broadly, national equivalent degrees or specialized degrees of the above fields (e.g. political economy or international political economy, regional and environmental economics, social policy etc.) are eligible. If you have questions about the eligibility of your degree please contact the consortium.
Candidates with Natural Science or Engineering degrees are not eligible for any of the tracks.
2) High motivation and interest in European and international public policy
3) Work experience - Applicants with relevant work experience (internships, jobs) will be ranked higher.
4) Fluency in English
Mundus MAPP does not require a language certificate from applicants from the following countries, provided that they have received a Bachelor's or Master's degree taught exclusively in English:
- Australia, Botswana, Canada, Gambia, Ghana, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Liberia,
- Malawi, Namibia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Philippines, Rwanda (English-speaking region), South Africa, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, UK, USA and Zambia
Applicants from countries other than these may request a waiver from the English language admissions requirement if they completed a Bachelor's or Master's degree taught exclusively in English in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, USA, the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Switzerland.
All other applicants will need to provide evidence of their English language skills with any one of the following test scores:
- TOEFL (Paper version; taken within two years of the application deadline) 580 or above;
- TOEFL (Internet version; taken within two years of the application deadline) 92 or above;
- IELTS – Academic (taken within two years of the application deadline) 6.5 or above;
- Cambridge Proficiency Examination (taken within 5 years of the application deadline) C or above;
- Cambridge Advanced English Test (taken within 5 years of the application deadline) B or above.
5) Other
Although Spanish is no longer a requirement for mobility tracks involving IBEI, basic knowledge of Spanish is recommended as some electives will only be available in Spanish.
Enquiries may be sent to the central email address of the Consortium, mundusmapp [at] ceu [dot] edu.
Dates
Deadline: February 04, 2025
Cost/funding for participants
EMJMD scholarships
1) Programme Country scholarships: for selected applicants who are citizens of one of the countries of the European Union, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Turkey.
Programme Country scholarships consist of the following contributions:
- Contribution to participation costs (tuition fees): 4,500 EUR/academic year (9,000 EUR in total for two academic years)
- Contribution to travel costs: 1,000 EUR/academic year (2,000 EUR in total for two academic years). Programme Country students who are residents of the country where their EMJMD mobility takes place are not eligible for this contribution.
- Contribution to subsistence costs (stipend): 1,000 EUR/month (24,000 EUR for two academic years). Programme Country students who are residents of the country where their EMJMD mobility takes place are not eligible for this contribution.
- The remaining tuition fees (13,000 EUR in total for two academic years) will be waived by the consortium institutions.
2) Partner Country scholarships: for selected applicants from all other countries (countries not listed above under Programme Country scholarships), provided that they are not residents nor have carried out their main activity (studies, training, work, living) for more than a total of 12 months over the last five years in any of the Programme Countries listed above.
Partner Country scholarships consist of the following contributions:
- Contribution to participation costs (tuition fees): 9,000 EUR/academic year (18,000 EUR in total for two academic years)
- Contribution to travel and installation costs: up to 7,000 EUR in total for two academic years
- Contribution to subsistence costs (stipend): 1,000 EUR/month (24,000 EUR for two academic years)
- The remaining tuition fees (4,000 EUR in total for two academic years) will be waived by the consortium institutions.
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