Mobility (EPOG-JM)

The choice of a Major and Minor deter­mines stu­den­t’s mobil­i­ty (for Semes­ters 1, 2 and 3). The poten­tial mobil­i­ty dur­ing Semes­ter 4 is decid­ed at the begin­ning of Year 2, in rela­tion to the Mas­ter’s the­sis project. The Majors and Minors are:

• Major A — Inno­va­tion, the dig­i­tal econ­o­my and the sociotech­ni­cal bifurcation
• Major B — Macro­eco­nom­ics, finance and the socioe­co­nom­ic bifur­ca­tion with 
  • Minor B1 — Inter­na­tion­al macro­eco­nom­ics, gov­er­nance and sustainability
  • Minor B2 — Socioe­co­nom­ic and eco­log­i­cal economics
  • Minor B3 — Polit­i­cal econ­o­my, cap­i­tal­ism and sustainability
• Major C — Sus­tain­able devel­op­ment and the socioe­co­log­i­cal bifur­ca­tion with 
  • Minor C1 — Tech­nol­o­gy, devel­op­ment and sus­tain­able development
  • Minor C2 — Inter­na­tion­al macro­eco­nom­ics, devel­op­ment and sus­tain­able development
  • Minor C3 — Socioe­co­log­i­cal eco­nom­ics and policy
  • Minor C4 — Devel­op­ment and sus­tain­able devel­op­ment in the Glob­al South

The Major and Minor deter­mines the insti­tu­tion in which the stu­dent spends the 1st year (Semes­ter 1 and Semes­ter 2). Then, all the stu­dents spend the Semes­ter 3 in Paris where they improve their spe­cial­i­sa­tion and devel­op a com­mon culture.

Dur­ing Semes­ter 4, stu­dents write their Master’s the­sis (and can choose between com­plet­ing a pro­fes­sion­al intern­ship or work­ing in a research lab). They can choose to spend this time in one of the insti­tu­tions vis­it­ed pre­vi­ous­ly in their path­way or to go at one of the asso­ci­at­ed part­ner. The pro­gramme ends with the EPOG “Master’s con­fer­ence” (end-June / begin­ning of July) and for those stu­dents inter­est­ed, with a non-manda­to­ry essay (to be issued by the end of August).

The table below sum­maris­es the mobil­i­ty rules:

Major	Minor	YEAR 1		YEAR 2
		Semes­ter 1 (S1)	Semes­ter 2 (S2)	Semes­ter 3 (S3)	Semes­ter 4 (S4)
Major A — Inno­va­tion, the dig­i­tal econ­o­my and the sociotech­ni­cal bifurcation	A	Uni­ver­si­ty of Turin		Paris UTC Sor­bonne Uni­ver­si­ty Con­ser­va­toire nationale des arts et métiers	Mas­ter’s the­sis In paris or at one of the part­ners’ or asso­ci­at­ed part­ners’ insti­tu­tions, or any oth­er rel­e­vant insti­tu­tion (see “Com­pul­so­ry phys­i­cal mobility”)
Major B — Macro­eco­nom­ics, finance and the socioe­co­nom­ic bifurcation	B1	Berlin School of Eco­nom­ics and Law
	B2	Uni­ver­si­ty Roma 3
	B3	Uni­ver­si­ty of Geneva	Uni­ver­si­ty Roma 3
Major C — Sus­tain­able devel­op­ment and the socioe­co­log­i­cal bifurcation	C1	Uni­ver­si­ty of Turin	Uni­ver­si­ty of the Witwatersrand
	C2	Berlin School of Eco­nom­ics and Law
	C3	Vien­na Uni­ver­si­ty of Eco­nom­ics and Business
	C4	Fed­er­al Uni­ver­si­ty of Rio de Janeiro	Uni­ver­si­ty of Campinas

Compulsory physical mobility

All enrolled stu­dents (whether Eras­mus Mundus schol­ar­ship hold­ers or not) are required to com­plete a min­i­mum of two phys­i­cal mobil­i­ty study peri­ods, each last­ing at least one aca­d­e­m­ic semes­ter (30 ECTS cred­its or equiv­a­lent), in two coun­tries dif­fer­ent from their coun­try of res­i­dence at the time of enrol­ment. One of these coun­tries must be an EU Mem­ber States or third coun­tries asso­ci­at­ed to the Pro­gramme (i.e. North Mace­do­nia, Ser­bia, Ice­land, Liecht­en­stein, Nor­way, Türkiye). Com­pul­so­ry mobil­i­ty peri­ods can­not be replaced by vir­tu­al mobil­i­ty (dis­tance learning).

This require­ment is auto­mat­i­cal­ly met with­in Minors B3/C1/C2. For Minors A/B1/B2/C3/C4, stu­dents who reside (at the time of enrol­ment) in one of the coun­tries on their Minor’s path­way must com­plete Semes­ter 4 in a dif­fer­ent coun­try than those where they spent pre­vi­ous semes­ters. Fur­ther­more, for French res­i­dents in Minor C4, this coun­try must be an EU Mem­ber State or a third coun­try asso­ci­at­ed with the Pro­gramme (exclud­ing France).