The College of Europe, founded in 1949 and based in Bruges and Natolin (Warsaw), is a centre of academic excellence preparing individuals to work and live in an international environment. The College of Europe focuses on postgraduate European studies in the legal, economic, political, international relations and interdisciplinary domains, while also providing a range of tailor-made seminars and training courses targeted at executives and public sector officials.

In Bruges, the academic programmes are built around four Departments of European Studies:

(1) Economics

The European Economic Studies Programme offers students a comprehensive coverage and critical analysis of the process of European economic integration. Courses are designed to provide students with a deep knowledge and thorough understanding of EU policies and the European economy in general. The programme places strong emphasis on public policy and its implications for business strategies in a global environment, while courses provide a balance between economic theory and applied economic analysis.

(2) Law

The European Legal Studies Programme provides students with an in-depth education in European law, the teaching methods being similar to those used in North American law schools. The programme establishes a balance between the economic and the constitutional aspects of European law. Despite the increasing complexity of European law, the legal studies programme adopts a global and contextual approach.

(3) Politics and Administration

The Master of Arts in European Political and Administrative Studies equips its graduates with the conceptual framework and the specific skills to take up positions of responsibility in national and European institutions and in the private sector. In a rigorous and intensive one-year programme students learn to understand the role and functioning of European institutions as well as national and regional ones in their relationship to the EU, and they acquire sound theoretical and practical knowledge of the political and administrative systems of the EU and their options for the future.

(4) International Relations and Diplomacy

The Master of Arts in EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies provides its graduates with in-depth knowledge of the European Union as an actor in the international environment as well as skills in international negotiations and diplomacy. The demanding and intensive one-year study programme thus aims at a broad comprehension of the EU’s external relations, bringing together an interdisciplinary analysis of its internal decision-making processes with developments in the wider context of international relations.

At Natolin (Warsaw), the study programme analyses the process of European integration from a pluridisciplinary perspective. After having covered the historical, political, economic and legal foundations of European integration in the first semester, students specialise during the second semester in a specific thematic major (Governance in the EU, Single Market, The EU as a Regional Actor, The EU as a Global Actor), which also follows the pluridisciplinary approach.

Upon completion, students are awarded:

• Master of Arts in European Economic Studies
• Master in European Community Law (LL M)
• Master of Arts in European Political and Administrative Studies
• Master of Arts in EU International Relations and Diplomacy
• Master of Arts in European Interdisciplinary Studies

College of Europe
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BE-8000 Brugge
Belgium
Tel: 0032 50 477 111
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