Curriculum: Tailored for Professionals

The flexibility of both timeframe and content enables each student to adapt the programme to his or her individual needs. The programme offers professionals both sound theoretical knowledge and hands-on management skills, using modern teaching methods.

Participants choose their own Area of Concentration and can decide whether they wish to complete the programme full-time or part-time (i.e. in one year or in two years). In total, 46 days of presence are required and 60 ECTS are acquired (in the one-year as well as in the two year programme).

The EMPM curriculum consists of the following modules and courses:

1. Understanding Governance (14 days and 13 ECTS in total)

• Introductory course: From Government to Governance
• Actors, institutions, policies
• Governance and Decision Making in and between Public Institutions
• Understanding Organisations
• European Union Governance

2. Management: Concepts, Instruments and Finances (9 days and 9 ECTS in total)

• Strategic and Performance Management
• Human Resource Management
• Fiscal Rules and Budgeting or Public Sector Budgeting and Accounting (formerly: Accounting and Management Control)

3. Concentration

Participants choose three electives (3 days and 3 ECTS each) from one of the following three "Areas of Concentration":

• Leadership and Management
• Economics, Finances, Methods (formerly: Financial Management and Methods)
• Intersectoral Management

4. Complement    

Participants choose two more electives (3 days and 3 ECTS each) from any of the three "Areas of Concentration":

• Leadership and Management
• Economics, Finances, Methods (formerly: Financial Management and Methods)
• Intersectoral Management

5. Professional Development (8 days and 7 ECTS in total)

Participants choose two skills courses as well as a workshop in either Brussels or London.

6. Master Thesis (16 ECTS)

• Master thesis colloquium (recommended)
• Master Thesis