Overview
The European Master in Agricultural, Food and Environmental Policy Analysis aims at providing a high quality education in designing and assessing public policies targeted to the agricultural and food sector as well as the rural environment. This European Master responds to the increasing need to better understand and anticipate the various and often complex socio-economic and environmental effects of these policies either in a functioning market economy as in the European Union or in economies in a development or transition phase. The European Master offers a two-year academic curriculum with integrated and advanced theoretical, methodological and empirical courses in economics and quantitative methods as well as in agricultural, food and environmental sciences, agricultural and trade policy, environmental and natural resource policy, rural development policy and agribusiness management and market analysis. To connect theory and methodology to practice, a problem solving project is developed and presented as a master thesis at the end of the two-year curriculum.
Partner universities
The European Master is jointly organised by five leading European educational and research institutions:
- Corvinius University of Budapest (CUB) in Hungary
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in Sweden
- Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn (UBonn) in Germany
- Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) in Belgium
- Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Spain
These five partner universities are recognised worldwide for the quality of their educational programme and scientific achievements in agricultural, environmental and economic sciences. After successful completion of the AFEPA academic programme, AFEPA graduates receive a joint diploma entitled European Master in Agricultural, Food and Environmental Policy Analysis and the official Master degrees from the two Consortium universities where they have attended
Admission criteria
To be admitted to the European Master in Agricultural, Food and Environmental Policy Analysis candidates need to have a Bachelor degree or an equivalent academic degree of minimum three years of undergraduate study corresponding to 180 ECTS. Students in their final year of their Bachelor degree may be admitted in the Master programme on the condition that their Bachelor degree is awarded before they enrol the programme. All candidates also need to have followed courses in mathematics, statistics and economics as well as agricultural, food and environmental sciences at least at an introductory level. Candidates must agree to complete the academic curriculum in two consecutive academic years and to the terms in the study contract as specified by the AFEPA consortium.
Candidates from English speaking countries must provide an official letter from their university from which they graduated attesting that English is the media of instruction. All other candidates need to provide evidence that they master English at a level corresponding to a minimum TOEFL score of 550 (paper version), 213 (computer version) or 79 (internet version) or a minimum overall band IELTS score of 6 or with a signal deemed equivalent by the AFEPA consortium. Candidates who choose to study at UCL and UPC also need to prove that their command of French and Spanish, respectively, is sufficient for them to participate in courses at these two institutions. If French and Spanish are neither their mother tongue nor the language of their past study, it is advised that these candidates obtain the B1 threshold level of the Common European Framework of Reference, i.e., they can understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc. For French, it corresponds to the DELF B level and for Spanish to the DELE “intermedio” level.
Candidates can apply for an Erasmus Mundus scholarship except those who have already benfited from an Erasmus Mundus Master Course scholarship or are benefiting from another European Community grant while pursuing their Erasmus Mundus master studies.
Student scholarships
Erasmus Mundus scholarships for non-European students (Category A)
The Erasmus Mundus programme of the European Union awards a limited number of individual scholarships to non-European applicants to the European Master in Agricultural, Food and Environmental Policy Analysis. When non-European candidates apply for admission to the AFEPA European Master, they can also apply for this scholarship programme using the same application form. If non-European candidates applying for this scholarship programme are admitted to the AFEPA European Master but are not offered an Erasmus Mundus scholarship, then admitted candidates cover the tuition fees and all other expenses with funding from an alternative scholarship programme or private sources.
For a non-European applicant, the scholarship amounts to:
- a total contribution to travel, installation and any other type of costs € 8,000
- a contribution to cover the tuiton fees of the European Master € 3,000 per semester
- a monthly allowance € 1,000 per month
Following the 2009-13 Erasmus Mundus programme guide, without prejudice to high academic standards, no more than two of the applicants selected for an Erasmus Mundus scholarship should have the same nationality to ensure geographical diversity scholarship holders.
Erasmus Mundus scholarships for European students (Category B)
The Erasmus Mundus programme of the European Union awards a limited number of individual sholarships to European applicants to the European Master in Agricultural, Food and Environmental Policy Analysis. When European candidates apply for admission to the AFEPA European Master, they can also apply for this scholarship programme using the same application form. If European candidates applying for this scholarship programme are admitted to the AFEPA European Master but are not offered an Erasmus Mundus scholarship, then admitted candidates cover the tuition fees and all other expenses with funding from an alternative scholarship programme or private sources.
For a European applicant, the scholarship amounts to:
- a contribution to the tuiton fees of the European Master € 1,500 per semester
- a monthly allowance € 500 per month
Selection process
The selection for admission to the European Master in Agricultural, Food and Environmental Policy Analysis and for scholarships of the Erasmus Mundus Programme is based on academic merit, language skills, professional and volunteer experience, expression of motivation, recommendations, and other credentials (reputation of the school of origin, the referees, etc.) to guarantee the selection of high-quality students. Country of origin and gender are additional criteria that could be used to orient the recruitment towards diversity in geographical cover and balance in gender representation.
Application and downloadable forms
Below you find two forms that you need in order to apply for the AFEPA programme.
1. The application form: The application form is located under the following link. Please fill out the application form completely and once you are sure that you do not want to do any additional changes, lock the form (using the appropriate function) and print it out as a pdf file.
Application form (which you have to fill out online after registering. For that click on the "sign up" link and follow instructions)
2. The reference form: Two academic referees or your choice have to fill out a reference form in English, sign it, and save it under the file name ‘RF_CandidateLastName_RefereeLastName.doc’ or ‘RF_CandidateLastName_RefereeLastName.pdf’. They then have to send it as a scanned version to master-afepa@uclouvain.be, send it by regular mail to the address provided below, or hand it back to you in a sealed envelope for inclusion in your application package. The AFEPA-preformatted version of the form is located under the following link:
Reference form
The address of the central AFEPA coordination office is the following:
AFEPA European Master Programme
Unité d’économie rurale
Université catholique de Louvain
Place de la Croix du Sud, 2/15
B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium
Application deadlines for admission and Erasmus Mundus scholarships: January 10.
Contact detail
Henrich BRUNKE
Place de la Croix du Sud 2/15
1348 LOUVAIN-LA-NEUVE - Belgium
master-afepa@uclouvain.be
Website: http://www.uclouvain.be/afepa
Please kindly mention Scholarization.blogspot.com when applying for this scholarship
The European Master in Agricultural, Food and Environmental Policy Analysis aims at providing a high quality education in designing and assessing public policies targeted to the agricultural and food sector as well as the rural environment. This European Master responds to the increasing need to better understand and anticipate the various and often complex socio-economic and environmental effects of these policies either in a functioning market economy as in the European Union or in economies in a development or transition phase. The European Master offers a two-year academic curriculum with integrated and advanced theoretical, methodological and empirical courses in economics and quantitative methods as well as in agricultural, food and environmental sciences, agricultural and trade policy, environmental and natural resource policy, rural development policy and agribusiness management and market analysis. To connect theory and methodology to practice, a problem solving project is developed and presented as a master thesis at the end of the two-year curriculum.
Partner universities
The European Master is jointly organised by five leading European educational and research institutions:
- Corvinius University of Budapest (CUB) in Hungary
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in Sweden
- Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn (UBonn) in Germany
- Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) in Belgium
- Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Spain
These five partner universities are recognised worldwide for the quality of their educational programme and scientific achievements in agricultural, environmental and economic sciences. After successful completion of the AFEPA academic programme, AFEPA graduates receive a joint diploma entitled European Master in Agricultural, Food and Environmental Policy Analysis and the official Master degrees from the two Consortium universities where they have attended
Admission criteria
To be admitted to the European Master in Agricultural, Food and Environmental Policy Analysis candidates need to have a Bachelor degree or an equivalent academic degree of minimum three years of undergraduate study corresponding to 180 ECTS. Students in their final year of their Bachelor degree may be admitted in the Master programme on the condition that their Bachelor degree is awarded before they enrol the programme. All candidates also need to have followed courses in mathematics, statistics and economics as well as agricultural, food and environmental sciences at least at an introductory level. Candidates must agree to complete the academic curriculum in two consecutive academic years and to the terms in the study contract as specified by the AFEPA consortium.
Candidates from English speaking countries must provide an official letter from their university from which they graduated attesting that English is the media of instruction. All other candidates need to provide evidence that they master English at a level corresponding to a minimum TOEFL score of 550 (paper version), 213 (computer version) or 79 (internet version) or a minimum overall band IELTS score of 6 or with a signal deemed equivalent by the AFEPA consortium. Candidates who choose to study at UCL and UPC also need to prove that their command of French and Spanish, respectively, is sufficient for them to participate in courses at these two institutions. If French and Spanish are neither their mother tongue nor the language of their past study, it is advised that these candidates obtain the B1 threshold level of the Common European Framework of Reference, i.e., they can understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc. For French, it corresponds to the DELF B level and for Spanish to the DELE “intermedio” level.
Candidates can apply for an Erasmus Mundus scholarship except those who have already benfited from an Erasmus Mundus Master Course scholarship or are benefiting from another European Community grant while pursuing their Erasmus Mundus master studies.
Student scholarships
Erasmus Mundus scholarships for non-European students (Category A)
The Erasmus Mundus programme of the European Union awards a limited number of individual scholarships to non-European applicants to the European Master in Agricultural, Food and Environmental Policy Analysis. When non-European candidates apply for admission to the AFEPA European Master, they can also apply for this scholarship programme using the same application form. If non-European candidates applying for this scholarship programme are admitted to the AFEPA European Master but are not offered an Erasmus Mundus scholarship, then admitted candidates cover the tuition fees and all other expenses with funding from an alternative scholarship programme or private sources.
For a non-European applicant, the scholarship amounts to:
- a total contribution to travel, installation and any other type of costs € 8,000
- a contribution to cover the tuiton fees of the European Master € 3,000 per semester
- a monthly allowance € 1,000 per month
Following the 2009-13 Erasmus Mundus programme guide, without prejudice to high academic standards, no more than two of the applicants selected for an Erasmus Mundus scholarship should have the same nationality to ensure geographical diversity scholarship holders.
Erasmus Mundus scholarships for European students (Category B)
The Erasmus Mundus programme of the European Union awards a limited number of individual sholarships to European applicants to the European Master in Agricultural, Food and Environmental Policy Analysis. When European candidates apply for admission to the AFEPA European Master, they can also apply for this scholarship programme using the same application form. If European candidates applying for this scholarship programme are admitted to the AFEPA European Master but are not offered an Erasmus Mundus scholarship, then admitted candidates cover the tuition fees and all other expenses with funding from an alternative scholarship programme or private sources.
For a European applicant, the scholarship amounts to:
- a contribution to the tuiton fees of the European Master € 1,500 per semester
- a monthly allowance € 500 per month
Selection process
The selection for admission to the European Master in Agricultural, Food and Environmental Policy Analysis and for scholarships of the Erasmus Mundus Programme is based on academic merit, language skills, professional and volunteer experience, expression of motivation, recommendations, and other credentials (reputation of the school of origin, the referees, etc.) to guarantee the selection of high-quality students. Country of origin and gender are additional criteria that could be used to orient the recruitment towards diversity in geographical cover and balance in gender representation.
Application and downloadable forms
Below you find two forms that you need in order to apply for the AFEPA programme.
1. The application form: The application form is located under the following link. Please fill out the application form completely and once you are sure that you do not want to do any additional changes, lock the form (using the appropriate function) and print it out as a pdf file.
Application form (which you have to fill out online after registering. For that click on the "sign up" link and follow instructions)
2. The reference form: Two academic referees or your choice have to fill out a reference form in English, sign it, and save it under the file name ‘RF_CandidateLastName_RefereeLastName.doc’ or ‘RF_CandidateLastName_RefereeLastName.pdf’. They then have to send it as a scanned version to master-afepa@uclouvain.be, send it by regular mail to the address provided below, or hand it back to you in a sealed envelope for inclusion in your application package. The AFEPA-preformatted version of the form is located under the following link:
Reference form
The address of the central AFEPA coordination office is the following:
AFEPA European Master Programme
Unité d’économie rurale
Université catholique de Louvain
Place de la Croix du Sud, 2/15
B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium
Application deadlines for admission and Erasmus Mundus scholarships: January 10.
Contact detail
Henrich BRUNKE
Place de la Croix du Sud 2/15
1348 LOUVAIN-LA-NEUVE - Belgium
master-afepa@uclouvain.be
Website: http://www.uclouvain.be/afepa
Please kindly mention Scholarization.blogspot.com when applying for this scholarship
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