MA in Interdisciplinary Research and Studies on EE
We would like to pass on information about the two-year Master of Arts
in Interdisciplinary Research and Studies on Eastern Europe (MIREES)
which might be of interest for your students.
This program was launched some years ago by the University of Bologna,
Italy; it is taught entirely in English (120 ECTS) and provides a joint
diploma of the Universities of Bologna <
http://www.unibo. it/>, Ljubljana
<
http://www.uni- lj.si/English/ english.asp>, Vytautas Magnus University
at Kaunas <
http://www.vdu. lt/>, Corvinus University of Budapest
<
http://www.uni- corvinus. hu/> and, from the next Academic Year
2009-2010, the State University of St Petersburg <
http://www.spbu. ru/>.
MIREES students will spend the first year in Forlì (one of the five
campuses of the University of Bologna), while in the second year a
minimum of 5 months will be spent at Partner Universities and, in
particular cases, at MIREES Associated Universities in the Balkans. A
mobility grant is offered to all enrolled students.
More detailed information on the teaching plan and the Faculty, together
with the application form, can be found at our web site:
http://www.mirees. unibo.it/ . The next deadline for applications is May
15th, 2009.
The program is especially recommended for prospective PhD students. Our
best alumni are currently attending doctorate programs at the
Universities of Oxford, Kent, the New School in New York and other
prestigious international academic institutions. Moreover, the program
is designed to forge analysts, area experts, consultants and mediators,
to meet the needs of research institutes, the European Commission,
international agencies, voluntary organizations and NGO's, public
administration, managers, corporations and banks located in East-Central
Europe and the Balkans or promoting investments in these regions. Most
of our alumni have found employment precisely in these fields.
The MIREES program offers specialized, in-depth knowledge of the
post-socialist countries in transition, the new EU member states, and
the new East-European neighbour countries to students with a BA in
Economics, Politics, International Relations, History, Languages (and
Slavic languages in particular), agricultural studies and cultural
studies generally.
The program aims at developing language skills. MIREES offers courses in
Bosnian-Croatian- Serbian, Bulgarian, basic and advanced Russian, and
Slovak (Hungarian and Lithuanian are also available in the 2nd year), as
well as Italian for foreigners as an additional option. The curriculum
stresses interdisciplinary studies in the economics of transition;
politics and international relations; media studies; and history and
cultural studies focused on Central, Eastern Europe and the Balkans.
Thirdly, the international dimension of the programme is enhanced
through student mobility, by an international faculty composed of
prominent scholars of international repute, and a genuinely
international student body. (In the previous five cycles we enrolled
students from 21 countries including the US, Mexico, Russia, Georgia,
Estonia, Macedonia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Serbia, Germany, the
United Kingdom, Turkey, Albania, Poland, Armenia, Norway, Slovenia,
Bosnia-Herzegovina and, of course, Italy.)
Therefore, we would be extremely grateful if you could encourage your BA
students to consider applying to this two year program and, at the same
time, if you could forward this message to your colleagues interested in
this part of the world. With this in mind we are sending you as an
attachment our promotional flyer in a pdf file. It briefly covers all
the general aspects of the program, as well as the mission and the
profile of our Master of Arts.
Should you need further information, please feel free to contact the
Tutor of the course at facscpol-fo. tutormirees@ unibo.it
<mailto:facscpol-fo. tutormirees@ unibo.it> or the Faculty Student Office
(info.spfo@unibo. it <mailto:info.spfo@unibo. it>, phone +39.0543.374145) .
Thank you very much for your kind attention and cooperation.
Best regards,
Prof. Giliberto Capano
Dean of the Faculty of Political Science "R. Ruffilli"
Prof. Stefano Bianchini
Director, Master of Arts MIREES