This programme prepares future professionals to address one of the defining challenges of our time: how diverse societies can live together fairly, peacefully, and productively. Rooted in the study of Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean, it combines academic excellence with hands-on relevance for careers across public service, civil society, media, education, and international organisations.
Our approach is deliberately interdisciplinary. Drawing on political science, law, sociology, anthropology, history, and social policy, students learn to interpret complex social realities and translate them into meaningful strategies. By graduation, they are equipped not only to understand the causes of discrimination, conflict, and inequality, but also to design solutions, mediate tensions, and build more inclusive communities.
The programme is intentionally broad in scope. While many of our graduates continue on to doctoral studies and academic careers, just as many take their knowledge into professional arenas: shaping policy, leading NGOs, driving integration projects, or innovating in media and education. What unites them is a mindset—critical, adaptable, globally oriented—that allows them to navigate today’s fast-changing world of diversity and identity with confidence.
This is a programme for those who want to think deeply, but also act decisively. For those who want to understand difference not as a problem to be managed, but as an opportunity to strengthen societies. And for those ready to become the kind of professionals whose expertise is increasingly in demand: leaders who can bridge divides, foster cooperation, and make a tangible impact in the communities and institutions they serve.
As we understand it, social policy is an interdisciplinary discipline whose primary aim is to analyze social responses to social needs. As a problem-oriented discipline and activity, social policy combines knowledge from sociology, economics, law, and social work.
Our MA programme aims to train social policy practitioners who, based on their theoretical and methodological knowledge, can participate in policymaking in the field of social policy, manage and contribute to the operation of the social welfare system, represent social interests, and theorize, research, and teach social work and social policy. The programme has a special focus on the European Union and the European social model, embedding it in a global context.
Entrance examination:
Yes
Entrance type:
Oral
Minimum level of language proficiency (oral):
B2
Minimum level of language proficiency (written):
B2
Place of examination:
Online or in Person
Applicants with a full application package will be notified about the exact time and date of application interviews conducted via Skype. Applicants are responsible for having technically suitable conditions for the interview from their side. Applicants are expected to be prepared taking questions regarding the compulsory admission materials (see: Required readings for the entrance exam) from the side of admission committee composed of a professor, a lecturer and a student representative.Required readings for the entrance exam:Eriksen, Thomas Hylland. 2010. „1. What is Ethnicity?” In Ethnicity and Nationalism. Anthropological Perspectives. 1-23. London, New York: Pluto Books. Eriksen, Thomas Hylland. 2010. „6. Nationalism.” In Ethnicity and Nationalism. Anthropological Perspectives. 117-146. London, New York: Pluto Books. Okin, Susan Moller. 2004. „Multiculturalism and feminism: no simple question, no simple answers.” In Minorities within Minorities. Equality, Rights and Diversity edited by Eisenberg, Avigail and Jeff Spinner-Halev. 67-89. Pettigrew, Thomas F. 1998. „Reactions Toward the New Minorities of Western Europe.” Annual Review of Sociology 24: 77-103.
