ALTA SCUOLA DI ECONOMIA
E RELAZIONI INTERNAZIONALI
Master in International Cooperation
and Development
At a glance
School
ASERI - Graduate School
of Economics and
International Relations
Program type
Specializing Master
(“Master Universitario”)
Campus
Milan, Italy
Language of
instruction
English
Duration
January 2015 - December
2015
(January-June: classes/
July-December: internship
and project work)
Total ECTS
60
Tuition fee
€ 7,000
Overview
The political, economic and social development
of emerging economies is one of the
major challenges of globalization. Growing
interdependence and integration offer a chance
to strengthen cooperative North-South and
South-South relations, engaging different agents
including governments, international organizations,
and civil society actors. The call to cooperation is
urgent: poverty, inequality, conflict, instability, and
uncertainty still affect everyday life of a majority of
the world population. The Master in International
Cooperation and Development (MIC&D) offers
a privileged framework for designing tentative
solutions to the above mentioned issues through
the action of governmental and non-governmental
agents, bridging gaps among people, groups, and
institutions.
Goals
The Master in International Cooperation and
Development trains professionals to be able
to contribute to development cooperation
with creativity, personality and competence
by interpreting local and international events,
interacting with all the stakeholders, identifying
and managing environmentally and local culturefriendly interventions. For this purpose, the program
provides the students with a basic multidisciplinary
training and specialized technical and managerial
competences.
Placement opportunities
Students who have completed the Master in
International Cooperation and Development are
working in various institutions and organizations,
national and international: NGOs, international
institutions,
public
administrations,
private
companies, dealing with poverty eradication,
emergency, development, migration, institution
and democracy building in many different
countries. The Master supported their professional
career in cooperation and development, building
on their previous background and expertise.
Curriculum
The Master in International Cooperation and
Development is structured as four complementary
levels, fostering multidimensional training and
integrating scientific methodologies and operative
competences.
1st level - Scientific Training. Areas of study:
. Economic and human development
. Geopolitics
. Trade and finance for development
. Development law and institutions
. Project cycle management
2nd level - Professional Training. Areas of study:
. Development actors and strategies
. Crisis prevention and relief
. Development aid and governance
. Partnership for human rights
. Enhancing cooperative skills
3rd level - Project Work
Students are required to develop a personal
research project on an issue related to
development cooperation, in close contact with
a MIC&D professor and/or a professional from a
partner institution. The project work will often be
connected to the internship experience.
Master 2014-2015
4th level - Internship
The Master’s program is completed with an internship within
one of the ASERI partner institutions or other entities whose
mission and activities are consistent with the Master’s program.
Some scholarships may also target specific geographic regions.
Updated details on the aforementioned scholarships are
available at: www.ucscinternational.it/graduate-programs/
tuition-scholarships-master.
Academic faculty
Application deadlines
The Master in International Cooperation and Development
offers high quality training to a group of 25 students from all
continents. The learning platform includes lectures, seminars
and a tutored internship. A faculty composed of scholars
and professionals from international institutions and nongovernmental organizations shares its experience with the
class.
Priority consideration deadline: June 30, 2014
Deadline 2: September 15, 2014
Deadline 3: November 1, 2014
Selected faculty members:
. Prof. Simona Beretta - MIC&D Director, Università Cattolica,
Milan
. Dr. Silvana Arbia - International Criminal Court’s former
Registrar, The Hague
. Prof. Luigi Curini - Università degli Studi di Milano
. Prof. Paul Dembinski - Observatoire de la Finance, Geneva
. Dr. Giuliano Gargioni - WHO/StopTB Partnership, Geneva
. Prof. Xuewu Gu - Univerisity of Bonn
. Prof. Marco Lombardi - Università Cattolica, Milan
. Prof. Mario Agostino Maggioni - Università Cattolica, Milan
. Dr. Alberto Monguzzi - International Federation of Red Cross
and Red Crescent Societies, Budapest
. Prof. Mathias Nebel - Institut Catholique de Paris
. Dr. Giovanna Prennushi - The World Bank, Washington DC
. Dr. Manuela Prina - European Training Foundation, Turin
. Prof. Riccardo Redaelli - Università Cattolica, Milan
. Dr. Andrea Rossi - UNICEF, Kathmandu
. Prof. Andrea Santini - Università Cattolica, Milan
. Dr. Javier Schunk - PCM Trainer
. Dr. Manuela Tortora - UNCTAD, Geneva
. Prof. Roberto Zoboli - Università Cattolica, Milan
. Professionals from international institutions and NGOs, and
applied researchers.
Tuition fees & scholarships
Tuition fee: € 7,000. Partial tuition fee scholarships are available.
All scholarships are assigned on a merit basis and most of
them will be assigned to students who apply by the priority
deadline.
How to apply
Applicants are required to submit an online application form
along with their supporting documents.
.
.
Applicants with Italian nationality or academic title issued by
an Italian University
More information at the web page How to apply of the
Master in International Cooperation and Development
(http://aseri.unicatt.it/).
International applicants
The online application form, application instructions, and full
admission guidelines are available at www.ucscinternational.it.
Entry requirements
.
Candidates for the program may have a background in Political Science, Economics, Law, Humanities, Education, Foreign
Languages, Psychology, Social Science, Engineering, Nursing
Science, Agronomy, Environmental Science. This Master is
also open to all graduates from other faculties.
. Completion of an undergraduate degree, obtained after a
minimum of 3 years of study (180 ECTS).
. The undergraduate degree must be obtained before
the start of the program. ASERI will evaluate candidates’
academic and personal background and decide if they meet
the specific conditions for admission.
For applicants whose first language is not English, one of
the following certificates will be considered a preferential
requirement:
. TOEFL/IBT or Academic IELTS.
. Completed a degree program taught entirely in the English
language.
Contacts
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
ASERI - Graduate School of Economics and International Relations
Via San Vittore 18, 20123 Milano - Italy
Tel. +39 02 7234 8310
Fax. +39 02 7234 8320
> aseri.unicatt.it
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