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<p>from <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:elisa.landi3@unibo.it"><elisa.landi3@unibo.it></a><br>
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Dear colleague,</p>
<p>I would like to pass on information about the two-year Master of
Arts in Interdisciplinary Research and Studies on Eastern Europe
(MIREES) which might be of interest for your students.</p>
<p>This programme is jointly offered by the University of Bologna,
Italy together with the Vytautas Magnus University at Kaunas, Corvinus
University of Budapest and St Petersburg State University. 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>The call for application to the MA MIREES will be available as soon
as possible. However, the admission requirements and the documents to
be provided for application are already available on the MA MIREES'
website (<a
href="http://www.iecob.net/main/index.php?option=com_jlinks&controller=redirect&link=acjrl19ulewz1q&lktype=acamail&subsid=7841"
title="Surf the MA MIREES'website" target="_blank">http://www.mirees.unibo.it/</a>),
as well as detailed information on the teaching plan and the Faculty,
and <a
href="http://www.iecob.net/main/index.php?option=com_jlinks&controller=redirect&link=acjrl19ulewz1q1&lktype=acamail&subsid=7841"
title="Download the brochure of the MIREES Programme" target="_blank">the
brochure of the programme</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Two evaluation sessions</strong> are scheduled: the <strong>first
one</strong>, with deadline <strong>May, 16th 2011</strong>, is open
to all candidates; the <strong>second one</strong>, with deadline <strong>September,
19th 2011 </strong>is only for EU students and non-EU students with
equivalent status.</p>
<p>The programme is especially recommended 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 offers 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 aims 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 22 countries including the US, Mexico,
Russia, Georgia, Estonia, Macedonia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Hungary,
Serbia, Germany, United Kingdom, Turkey, Albania, Poland, Armenia,
Norway, Slovenia, Ukraine, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Azerbaijan, Slovak
Republic, Finland and, of course, Italy.)</p>
<p>Therefore, I 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.</p>
<p>For further information, please feel free to contact</p>
<p><strong>Ms Elisa Landi</strong><br>
<em>Degree programme secretariat<br>
</em><strong>e-mail</strong>: <a href="mailto:elisa.landi3@unibo.it">elisa.landi3@unibo.it<br>
</a><strong>tel.</strong>: +39.0543.374149</p>
<p><strong>Ms Elisa Grandi<br>
</strong><em>Mirees tutor</em><br>
<strong>e-mail</strong>: <a href="mailto:elisa.grandi5@studio.unibo.it">elisa.grandi5@studio.unibo.it</a></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</p>
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