MIREES is a joint program offered by the University of Bologna- Forlì Campus, Italy, together with the Vytautas Magnus University at Kaunas, Lithuania, the Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary, and the St. Petersburg State University, Russia. Enrolled students spend the first year in Forlì. In the second year a minimum of 5 months will be spent at one of the Partner Universities or at an associated partner University, including the University of Ljubljana and the University of Zagreb. Mobility grant is offered to all enrolled students, thanks to Erasmus+ or the MIREES mobility scheme.

The International Joint Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Research and Studies on Eastern Europe (MIREES) is taught entirely in English (120 ECTS). The curriculum offers interdisciplinary, in-depth knowledge of post-socialist countries in transition, new EU member states, and new East-European neighbor countries. Students develop language skills by learning one Eastern European language (3 levels of Russian, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Slovak; Hungarian is available in the second year).

Moreover, the program is designed to train perspective PhD students, analysts, area experts, consultants and mediators, to meet the needs of research institutes, the European Commission, international agencies, voluntary organizations and NGO’s, public administration, managers, corporations and banks active in the Baltic sea region, East-Central Europe and the Balkans. Most of the alumni have found employment in these fields, including international trade and IT companies, ministries and NGOs. The best graduates are currently attending doctorate programs at the Universities of Oxford, Kent, the New School, Giessen, St. Gallen, Galway, Durham, and other prestigious international academic institutions.

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