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News from EMGS Alumna Mariama Diallo

After graduating from the EMGS programme in September 2021, Mariama Diallo pursued a one-year postgraduate Master of Arts programme in EU external relations and European diplomacy at the College of Europe in Bruges. Currently, she is doing a Blue Book Traineeship at the European Commission – Directorate General for

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EMGS student spoke at the UN Human Rights Council Session in Geneva

Hafizullah Saeedi, a second year student of the EMGS programme, spoke at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. The Council’s session on 12 September 2022 focused on the topic of human rights and role of the UN and international community in Afghanistan. Under the following link you

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Erasmus Mundus beyond your study years

The graduation season is upon us, and many EMGS students are departing on their career paths. We will surely miss the university walls and all friends they brought us, but the adventure of Erasmus Mundus does not need to end. Are looking to stay involved in the Erasmus Mundus

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Giampaolo Conte on his experience as an Erasmus Mundus visiting scholar

I had the pleasure to be an Erasmus Mundus visiting scholar in the EMGS programme at the Ghent University in March 2022. I found that the this inter-university exchange is of great value and potential. Given my specialization in contemporary economic and social history at Roma Tre University (Italy),

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Websites for academic community affected by the war in Ukraine

The EMGS programme provides a home to a vivid international body of students and lecturers. The EMGS programme faculty and organizers herewith would like to express that we are aghast by the Russian aggression against Ukraine and express our deepest sympathy for all people who are suffering from the

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EMGS Consortium Promotional video

Learn more about the Master Programme „Global Studies – A European Perspective“ (EMGS) in the following video.

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On the Road Again: EMGS students publish transnational podcast, „Northcountry: ein deutsch-amerikanischer Streifzug durch Montana.“

The first day I met Constantin, we were attending an EMGS introductory event. We sat in folding chairs, nibbling on sandwiches and sipping wine in a sunny classroom on the Emil-Fuchs Straße in Leipzig. Students attending this event, an internationally diverse group, marveled at the strangeness of our circumstances.

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Stories of Resistance and Hope: Insights into my Field Work Experience for my Master’s Thesis

A bit nervous, full of curiosity and not sure what to expect in the following seven weeks, I set off for my field research on the politicization of female bodies in Nigeria. I had already made a few preparations in Vienna, but I was also aware that I would

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