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Master of European Social Security (Leuven)

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Programme summary

Master of European Social Security (60 ECTS)

Master of European Social Security (60 ECTS)

Education

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Objectives

The programme is a specialised, research-based education, dealing with the area of social security in its broadest sense. It provides the students with an in-depth study of social protection from a legal, economic, sociological and administrative perspective, confronting the students with the most recent research and several national backgrounds, thus stimulating individual reflection.

At the end of the programme the participants should be able to :
- design and carry out individual research projects in the area of social security, as well as participate in the conception, execution and supervision of team research;
- put their national/monodisciplinary approach in a broader perspective by including other disciplines and abandoning a merely national point of view;
- recognise national and temporal contingencies from essential social security boundaries;
- take up unfashionable positions if their research so demands;
- take part in and position themselves on a good multidisciplinary and comparative basis in any debate concerning social security issues;
- deliver results and opinions that contribute to the advancement of social security related research in Europe;
- translate research results to the broader public;
- make research results relevant for policy making; be able to translate questions from policy-makers into research questions, deal with them and explain the results to policy-makers.