The EPOG ecosystem

The “EPOG 2″ Inter­na­tion­al Mas­ter’s pro­gramme has been launched in 2018 and is part of the EPOG “fam­i­ly”. It includes two options: I) Inter­na­tion­al Macro­eco­nom­ics, Finan­cial Reg­u­la­tions and Sus­tain­abil­i­ty and II) Devel­op­ment and Sus­tain­abil­i­ty: Poli­cies, States and Cor­po­ra­tions. It is coor­di­nat­ed by the Uni­ver­si­ty of Paris 13 (France) and involves six addi­tion­al part­ners: Uni­ver­sité Paris Cité (France), Berlin School of Eco­nom­ics and Law (Ger­many), Kingston Uni­ver­si­ty (Unit­ed King­dom), Uni­ver­si­ty of Roma Tre (Italy) and Uni­ver­si­ty of the Wit­wa­ter­srand (South Africa).

The EPOG 2 pro­gramme is inde­pen­dent from the EPOG+ Eras­mus Mundus Joint Mas­ter Degree, even though con­tent sim­i­lar­i­ties exist with Major B and Minor C2: for Major B and Minor C2, the con­tent are sim­i­lar dur­ing the first year (in Berlin, Roma and Johan­nes­burg). The struc­ture and con­tent of the sec­ond year are dif­fer­ent, even tough the pro­grammes are shar­ing a few cours­es in Paris. EPOG 2 does not receive fund­ing from the Euro­pean Com­mis­sion and is not labelled “Eras­mus Mundus”.

Both EPOG+ and EPOG 2 are renewed ver­sions of the EPOG (Eco­nom­ic POli­cies in the age of Glob­al­i­sa­tion). The orig­i­nal EPOG pro­gramme has been cre­at­ed in 2013 and fund­ed by the Euro­pean Com­mis­sion in the frame­work of the “Eras­mus Mundus Mas­ter’s Cours­es” action until 2019. Com­mit­ted with plu­ral­ism in eco­nom­ics, the orig­i­nal EPOG Eras­mus Mundus Mas­ter’s Course (2013–2019) has attract­ed each year more than 800 appli­cants com­ing from more than 100 countries. 

For a brief com­par­i­son between EPOG+ and EPOG 2:

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