The 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. This 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. The 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.
The European Master is jointly organised by
five leading European educational and research institutions: the
Corvinius University of Budapest (CUB) in Hungary, the Swedish
University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in Sweden, the
Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn (UBonn) in Germany, the
Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) in Belgium and the Universitat
Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Spain. These five partner
universities are recognised worldwide for the quality of their
educational programme and scientific achievements in agricultural,
environmental and economic sciences. In 2013, the AFEPA consortium
added two new associated partner universities, the University of Alberta
in Canada and the Pontifica Universidad Catolica in Chile. Both
universities are among the leading research deaprtments in the field of
agricultural economics in North America and South America, respectively.
The required 120 ECTS credit points are
structured into three blocks: a 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. The 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. The Master degree is awarded as a double degree from
the two home and host universities.
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.
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. They are qualified to take
responsibilities in international, national and regional agencies,
non-governmental organisations, consultancy firms, professional
organisations and private companies.
For a non-European applicant, the scholarship amounts to:
| a total contribution to travel, installation and any other type of costs | € 8,000 |
| a contribution to cover the tuiton fees of the European Master | € 3,000 per semester |
| a monthly allowance | € 1,000 per month |
Moreinfo: http://www.uclouvain.be/afepa
