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<p>Dear colleague,</p>
<p>I would like to remind you that the next deadline for applications
to the two-year Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Research and
Studies on Eastern Europe (MIREES) is May 17th, 2010.</p>
<p>This programme, which might be of interest for your students, was
launched some years ago by the University of Bologna, Italy together
with the Vytautas Magnus University at Kaunas, Corvinus University of
Budapest and St Petersburg State University, who awards a joint
diploma. The University of Ljubljana is an associate partner that
offers additional mobility for students.</p>
<p>The programme is taught entirely in English (120 ECTS) and MIREES
students will spend the first year in Forlì (one of the five campuses
of the University of Bologna), while in the second year a minimum of 5
months will be spent at Partner Universities (including Ljubljana) and,
in particular cases, at other MIREES Associated Universities in the
Balkans. A mobility grant is offered to all enrolled students.</p>
<p>More detailed information on the teaching plan and the Faculty,
together with the application form, can be found at our web site: <a
title="LM MIREES Site" target="_blank"
href="http://www.iecob.net/main/index.php?option=com_jlinks&controller=redirect&link=acjrlq89wwz0&lktype=acamail&subsid=7874">http://www.mirees.unibo.it/</a>.</p>
<p>The programme is especially <strong>recommended</strong> for
prospective PhD students. Our best alumni are currently attending
doctorate programmes at the Universities of Oxford, Kent, the New
School in New York and other prestigious international academic
institutions. Moreover, the programme is designed to forge 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 located in East-Central Europe and the Balkans or promoting
investments in these regions. Most of our alumni have found employment
precisely in these fields.</p>
<p>The MIREES programme <strong>offers</strong> specialized, in-depth
knowledge of the post-socialist countries in transition, the new EU
member states, and the new East-European neighbour countries to
students with a BA in Economics, Politics, International Relations,
History, Languages (and Slavic languages in particular), agricultural
studies and cultural studies generally.</p>
<p>The programme <strong>aims</strong> at developing language skills.
MIREES offers courses in Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, Bulgarian, Russian,
and Slovak (Hungarian and Lithuanian are also available in the 2nd
year), as well as Italian for foreigners as an additional option. The
curriculum stresses on interdisciplinary studies in the economics of
transition; politics and international relations; history and cultural
studies focused on Central, Eastern Europe and the Balkans. The
international dimension of the programme is enhanced through student
mobility, by an international faculty composed of prominent scholars of
international repute, and a genuinely international student body. (In
the previous cycles we enrolled students from 21 countries including
the US, Mexico, Russia, Georgia, Estonia, Macedonia, Croatia, Bulgaria,
Hungary, Serbia, Germany, United Kingdom, Turkey, Albania, Poland,
Armenia, Norway, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Azerbaijan, Slovak
Republic, Finland and, of course, Italy.)</p>
<p>Therefore, we would be extremely grateful if you could encourage
your BA students to consider applying to this two year programme and,
at the same time, if you could forward this message to your colleagues
interested in this part of the world. With this in mind we are sending
you as an attachment our promotional flyer in a pdf file. It briefly
covers all the general aspects of the programme, as well as the mission
and the profile of our Master of Arts.</p>
<p>Should you need further information, please feel free to contact the
Tutor of the course at <a title="Write to the tutor of the LM MIREES"
target="_blank" href="mailto:facscpol-fo.tutormirees@unibo.it">facscpol-fo.tutormirees@unibo.it</a>or
the Faculty Student Office (<a title="Write to the Student Office"
target="_blank" href="mailto:info.spfo@unibo.it">info.spfo@unibo.it</a>,
phone +39.0543.374100).</p>
<p>Thank you very much for your kind attention and cooperation.</p>
<p>Best regards,</p>
<p>Prof. Stefano Bianchini<br>
Director, Master of Arts MIREES<br>
University of Bologna<br>
School of Political Science, Forlì Campus</p>
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