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Are you a Bachelor/Master, interested in Rural Development and Agricultural Economics ? seeking further specialisation through an International Masters Degree ? interested in a multi-disciplinary and mobile training in Europe? and, for European students, an experience in a non-European universities ? possibly financed on an EU scholarship ?

THEN THIS IS THE OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU!

The joint International Master in Rural Development (IMRD), part of the European Erasmus Mundus program, offers the opportunity to study the European vision on rural development in its diversity of approaches and applications, on a scholarship provided by the European Union (as of 2010-2011 also for European students).

The objective is to train specialists in integrated rural development, focussed on socio-economic and institutional aspects, not only from the European Union but also from developed, developing and transition countries outside the European Union through a 2 year master program (120 ECTS) jointly organised by six European leading institutes in agricultural economics and rural development.

The Master program is offered by

    Ghent University (Belgium)
    Agrocampus Ouest (France)
    Humboldt University of Berlin (Germany)
     the Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra (Slovakia)
    the University of Pisa (Italy)
    Wageningen University (The Netherlands)

in collaboration with

    University of Pretoria (South Africa),
    ESPOL (Ecuador)
    University of Agricultural Sciences of Bangalore (India),
    China Agricultural University
    Nanjing Agricultural University (China)


The methodology consists of a combination of basic and specialised training in technical, economic and social sciences, a case study of one month, an individual master thesis and a high extent of student and scholar mobility.