💭 Curious about how your career might look in 2-10 years after graduating from our MSc in Public Policy and Human Development? 💡 Here, seven of our MPP alumni give you some insights into their working lives and your possible future.   🎓  Francesco Iacoella – 2017 graduate, Risk and Vulnerability specialisation 💼  Impact Evaluation Analyst at UNICEF Evaluation Office (New York) “It is hard to overstate the impact that the MPP had on my career. I was always drawn to the study of v...

With our MSc in Public Policy and Human Development (MPP) application deadlines fast approaching (15 June 2023 for non-EU applicants and 15 July 2023 for EU applicants), we thought we’d provide an overview of the application process and some helpful tips to support anyone who’s still thinking about applying for the September 2023 intake! ℹ️  The documents you’ll need to apply to our MSc programme: A digital passport picture A digital copy of your passport / identity card A recent copy of your CV...

Free tote bags! Photo corners! Q&As! Snacks! On Saturday 18 March 2023, UNU-MERIT opened its doors to the public for the second Master’s Open Day of the academic year, welcoming potential students to find out more about our MSc in Public Policy and Human Development programme (MPP for short) by visiting the institute in-person and tuning in online. Two informative and Q&A sessions, tours around the institute, and stations from each of our five MPP specializations served to show how...

Our quarterly newsletter rounds up the latest news and events from UNU-MERIT and its School of Governance. We explore the push and pull of international development: innovation through science and entrepreneurship, and governance through public policy analysis. ...

MPP Closing Ceremony Another Year Complete: We congratulate our 2021-2022 cohort on completing the programme! Enter keywords...

How to choose a topic for your master’s thesis? “Few assignments can be as intimidating at university as writing a thesis,” acknowledges Master’s student Lais Bonetto. How do you pick your topic and how do you conduct your research? Find out what motivated Lais and her fellow students in their choices. Enter keywords...

On 25 November 2021, staff and students representing our Master of Science in Public Policy and Human Development (MPP) commemorated the United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. The event aimed to raise awareness about the issue, while also presenting the MPP’s new Sexual Harassment Document. This awareness document reflects the commitment of the MPP to contribute to the elimination of gender-based violence, and provides students and staff with resources to...

Our Master’s alumna Claire Tan Sze Eng has won the best thesis award at the Dutch Demography Day 2021 for her dissertation entitled, ‘Returning to a home without a future: The effect of migrant trajectories and experiences on the reintegration of Albanian rejected asylum-seekers’. Based on some 40 in-depth interviews carried out under the EU-funded ADMIGOV project in the first quarter of 2020, the study found strong intersectionality between economic, psychological and security reintegration out...

Our Master’s alumni Vivien Csapliczky (pictured far left) and Job Zomerplaag (pictured far right) have won the biennial ‘Kremers Award’ for having written the best dissertations on regional innovation from a socio-economic perspective. Their theses respectively focused on regional development and digitalisation in southwest Hungary and the (dis)empowerment of community initiatives in the southeast of the Netherlands. Job Zomerplaag, now an editor at Studio Europa Maastricht, said: “Studyin...

Our Master of Science in Public Policy and Human Development (MPP) made it into the Top 20 of the Going BEYOND Award from the ‘Global Business School Network’, a non-profit organisation founded by the World Bank in 2003, based in Washington DC, USA. The award recognises programmes and initiatives that demonstrate a positive impact on society, and that go BEYOND traditional offerings from academic institutions and research journals. In particular, winning entries should show how they: Empower and...