The call for applications for the academic year
2025/2026 is now open
Deadline for both scholarship and self-funded applicants
2 February 2025
EMA Online Open Day
Join us for a Q&A session on Zoom and learn more about the overall EMA experience, from application to career pathway
Wednesday 18 December at 2.30 PM CET
EMA:
The European Master’s Progamme in Human Rights
and Democratisation
The European Master’s Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation (EMA) is a one-year, full-time course that provides a practice and policy-oriented approach to learning that combines legal, political, historical, anthropological, and philosophical perspectives of human rights and democratisation with skill-building activities and a field trip exercise.
25 years and counting
The EMA Programme is the longest running master’s programme in the Global Campus. Established in 1997, it is a unique example of inter-university cooperation. Through its network of 43 universities it has cultivated the expert human rights and democratisation knowledge and tools to thousands of graduates from all over the world.
Our students are taught by leading academics from over 43 participating universities, experts and representatives of international organisations and NGOs.
Is EMA for you? Learn about the programme’s key features and if you are the right candidate!
EMA is part of the Global Campus of Human Rights
The Global Campus of Human Rights is an inter-disciplinary centre of academic excellence supported by the EU. Our eight Master’s programmes in human rights are based in Africa, Arab World, Asia-Pacific, Caucasus, Central Asia, Europe, Latin America and Caribbean, and South East Europe. Each regional programme fosters new generations of human rights defenders contributing to a world in which human dignity, equality, freedom, security, sustainable development, democracy and the rule of law are realised.
careers
Our students join the EMA programme for different reasons: for some it is a logical progression of their studies, for others EMA represents an opportunity to upskill or re-skill during their professional career.
Gabriel Alves de Faria
Human Rights Officer at UN Human Rights, Geneva
EMA Cohort 2012-2013
David Katz Rotnitzky
PhD Candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle
EMA Cohort 2021-2022
Anju Anna John
Researcher at University of Deusto,
Bilbao
EMA Cohort 2021-2022