European Master in Global Studies

The European Master in “Global Studies” (EMGS) is a jointly designed, fully-integrated, interdisciplinary study programme that issues a joint degree and is generously funded by the European Union in the framework of the Erasus+ Programme. It addresses students from all over the world, promotes diversity of the student body, and fosters their mobility. The EMGS consortium comprises five excellent European universities: the universities of Ghent, Leipzig, Roskilde, Vienna, and Wrocław. Its associated partners enhance the multi-perspectivity of the programme and increase opportunities for student and staff mobility. They include universities in Africa, Asia, North and South America, and Australasia. The consortium welcomes guest lecturers from outside the consortium and fosters alliances with non-academic partners to enhance cooperation and knowledge circulation between academia and the world of work. 

Since 2005, we’ve trained students to navigate a complex, highly interconnected yet also fragmented world. We started from and maintain a critical and historical understanding of globalization that focuses on actors in different world regions, their positionality, and their agency. To address new global dynamics, the consortium continues to innovate and further adapt its academic and institutional agenda. We thus focus on training students’ literacy for challenges such as international development, climate crisis, global health, digitization, social cohesion, predatory geopolitics and war. We have a successful track record in fostering the employability of our students for positions in academia, international organizations, think tanks, public administration and business, e.g. in the fields such as development cooperation, peace and security, global health, or climate change. EMGS alumni are mediators in international interactions, resilient in contingent situations, and able to re-act to dynamic environments. They moderate multiperspectivity, develop solutions in complex projects, and communicate across professional and academic boundaries.

Please note: IT systems offline at Leipzig University

After an attack on Leipzig University’s IT systems, the services were taken offline completely as a precautionary measure so that further analysis could be carried out.

Neither E-Mails for staff and students, websites, the University library IT services nor Moodle work currently. Thisimpacts our communication profoundly. Therefore, we have created interim solutions.

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