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Advanced Master programmes in
Development studies
2017-2018
2 · master programmes
Studying Programmes MSc in MSc in
Governance Globalisation
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@ IOB
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and and
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development development
MSc in Course Teaching & Practical
Development structure support staff information
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evaluation and
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management
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impressions
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studying
@ IOB
I OB is a multidisciplinary academic
institution where people of different opinions,
religions and nationalities feel at home. It has
living and working in a developed country. The
institute focuses on student-centred learning,
and its approach involves a combination of
several decades of experience in organising teaching methods (lectures, individual and group
international educational programmes in the field assignments, discussions, student presentations,
of development policy and management. IOB is literature-based independent study, seminars,
part of the University of Antwerp, and it is located guest lectures, analysis of case studies,
on the University’s City Campus in Antwerp, simulations, individual tutoring).
Belgium.
Our ideal classroom presents a mix of students,
Each year, the Institute is home to some most of them coming from the global south,
80 students of approximately 30 different but also students from the global north who are
nationalities from diverse academic and already pursuing (or wish to pursue) careers in
professional backgrounds. This provides for an development are very welcome.
extraordinary multicultural and multidisciplinary
learning environment. Our Master programmes Most of our students from the global south are
are organised in English, but special facilities mid-career development professionals from
are offered to students from other linguistic low-income and lower middle-income countries
backgrounds. have a Master in one of the social sciences and
are taking a career break to meet peers seeking
IOB offers policy-oriented education that an exposure to new ideas and methodologies in
combines the latest social scientific insights development policy.
with relevance to the development challenge.
Students are expected to learn from each other’s IOB offers three Master programmes, each
experiences, as well as from their exposure to with a high degree of specialisation and a
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distinct focus: Globalisation and Development; Belgian Directorate General for Development
Governance and Development; and Cooperation, Belgian Technical Cooperation,
Development Evaluation and Management. the European Commission, the World Bank,
the United Nations, as well as for countless
Each of the three Master programmes takes 12 non-government organisations. The insights
months to complete, starting and ending mid- provided by such staff exposure constitute a
September. In the first three-month module, major source of inspiration for the teaching
students are updated on development-related programmes.
theories and research methods. The core of the
programme runs from January to May, when IOB also participates in various inter-
students pursue individual tracks through university partnerships with institutes in
research-based modules. These tracks provide developing countries, including the Universidad
the foundation for the subsequent dissertation Centro-Americana (Managua, Nicaragua), the
project (from June to September). University of Cuenca (Ecuador), the University of
Bukavu (DR Congo), the University of Western
Upon successful completion of the programme, Cape (South Africa), the Mbarara University
students are granted a Master of Science degree. of Science and Technology - MUST (Uganda),
the Université du Burundi and the Mzumbe
Although the IOB staff members constitute University (Tanzania).
the backbone of all educational programmes,
the Institute regularly calls upon experts from The Institute is located on the University of
NGOs, government agencies, and other research Antwerp’s City Campus, close to the central
institutes. railway station. It is easily accessible by public
transport. Antwerp is Belgium’s historical
In their research and development work, connection to other continents, being a
the academic staff of IOB focus on analysing world harbour. It is also a pleasant city, full
development policy as a multi-actor process. of old charm and modern convenience. The
This work is structured around four research city boasts many excellent museums and
lines: Conditional Finance for Development, historical monuments, as well as a fast-paced
International Markets for the Poor, Local nightlife, fine shopping districts, and a booming
Institutions for/in Development, and State, commercial centre.
Economy and Society. In addition to providing
an organisational basis for research activities at The University’s City Campus offers a broad
the Institute, these lines are intended as links range of facilities, including a student
between research and education. restaurant, a sports centre and computer
rooms with internet access. The library of
We endeavour to make our teaching humanities and social sciences, which houses
programmes relevant for development the IOB collection on development studies, is
practitioners. In order to achieve this aim, our also located on the City Campus. Holding about
staff members frequently engage in policy 1.3 million volumes and providing access to
advisory work, in addition to performing numerous databases and electronic resources,
their academic and research duties. Past it is an excellent starting point for any research
research projects have been conducted project.
for a wide range of agencies, including the
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programmes General admission requirements Educational and professional background Applicants must hold a Master degree or five years Bachelor degree in development studies or related disciplines (Economics, political science, sociology, international relations, etc.) with good study results. Applicants with a Bachelor degree of four years of study can be admitted in case of demonstrable equivalence with a master degree (e.g. on the basis of the programme’s curriculum, successful attendance of relevant additional courses/trainings and/or relevant professional experience). Applicants with only a Bachelor’s degree of three years of study will not be admitted to the Master programmes. Post-graduate degrees are not equivalent to a Master degree. Applicants who obtained their University degree under the European Bologna system (see http://www.ehea.info/members.aspx), must hold a Master degree. Language All of our programmes are offered in English, in which applicants must be proficient. Applicants must submit an English language certificate: Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL): minimum score of 550 for the paper-based test or 79 for the internet-based test. Information about this test is available at www.toefl.org. IOB does not accept the TOEFL ITP. 6 · master programmes
International English Language Testing System (IELTS): minimum overall score of 6.5 and a
minimum score of 6.0 on each component. Information about this test is available at www.ielts.org.
IOB does not require a language certificate from applicants from the following countries:
Australia, Botswana, Canada, Cameroon (English-speaking region), Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia,
Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Namibia, New Zealand, Nigeria,
Philippines, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, UK, USA, Zambia and Zimbabwe and Oceania..
Special facilities are offered for students from other language backgrounds (particularly for
French- speaking students). Students with paper-based TOEFL scores between 500 and 550 (or
internet-based TOEFL scores between 61 and 79) or IELTS scores between 5.5 and 6.0 may thus
be admitted to the Master programme upon successful completion of an intensive two-month
language course organised by the University of Antwerp. The cost of this language course will be
borne by the Institute (see also Page 21).
Programme structure
Each of the three Master programmes has a similar structure, consisting of four modules.
The first Module provides an overview of theories of development and gives students up-to-
date knowledge of research methods and techniques, both general and programme-specific.
In Modules II and III, research-driven interactive education is offered. In Module IV, each
student conducts an individual development research project under the guidance of a
supervisor. The topics covered relate to the thematic focus of Modules II and III. A limited
number of students receive IOB travel grants in order to conduct fieldwork for their research
projects. The dissertation is the subject of a public presentation and defence.
Master of Master of Master of Development
Governance & Globalisation & Evaluation &
Development Development Management
Module I Theories of Development - Research Methods I and II
Governance for Globalisation & Evaluating Development
Module II
Development Development Effectiveness
TRACK 2
TRACK 1
TRACK 1
TRACK 2 TRACK 2
From Violent National Institutions,
Module III Conflict to Peace Local Institutions & Poverty Reduction
and State Poverty Reduction Strategies & Aid
Reconstruction
Module IV Dissertation
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Master of
Governance
And
Development
Programme Content
The future of sustainable development is and practical insights that will improve
critically related to the promotion of better their capacity to analyse governance challenges
governance at the local, national, regional at different levels, in addition to improving
and international levels. Both a cause and a the way in which they relate to processes of
consequence of governance failures, violent violent conflict and development. Graduates
conflict is incompatible with sustainable will understand and be able to analyse the
development. Processes of state formation, governance problems confronting developing
state failure and state reconstruction countries today, from the local to the global
play a central role in this nexus between level. Theoretical insights, policy strategies,
development, governance and conflict. best practices and failures are explored in order
The programme analyses governance to allow graduates to apply this knowledge in
problems and possible responses, with their future professional environments.
due consideration of the specific historical
pathways of individual countries, as well as The Master programme in Governance
the interaction between dynamics at the and Development offers two tracks, each
national/state level and the local/society with specific objectives, courses and
level. It also addresses the impact of global target audiences. The first track explores
developments. issues of governance and development
against the background of violent conflict
Most of our students are engaged (or aspire and the challenge of post-conflict state
to become engaged) in development, whether reconstruction. The second track addresses
professionally or as researchers. The objective of governance and development challenges
the Master programme is to provide these from the perspective of local institutions and
students with multidisciplinary theoretical poverty reduction.
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Track 1: Governance, Track 2: Local Governance
Peace and Conflict and Poverty Reduction
The track ‘Governance, Peace and Conflict’ The track ‘Local Governance and Poverty
focuses on the actors and factors involved in Reduction’ focuses on the interaction
the governance dimensions of development between transnational, national and
within the contexts of conflict-prone local actors in governance processes.
environments and states that are facing Decentralisation has become an important
a multitude of reconstruction challenges part of the agenda for governance reform and
following violent conflict. The track offers democratisation in many countries. For this
theoretical and contextualised insight reason, it is hardly possible to discuss issues
into the political economy of governance of public-service provision and property
and development, focusing on the state rights without due consideration for local-
as a central actor in the development level institutions and political dynamics. The
process of a nation. The track also explores partial autonomy of local decision-making
critical dimensions, drivers and dynamics levels is an integral part of countries that are
of violent conflict, processes of peace characterised by weak or fragile national-
and conflict resolution and post-conflict level state structures. It therefore requires
state reconstruction. It adopts a thematic careful scrutiny in the conceptualisation
perspective, supplemented by in-depth and assessment of development initiatives.
case studies drawn mainly from Sub- Special attention is also paid to the dynamics
Saharan Africa. Students receive analytical of poverty and the politics of poverty
and policy-oriented tools for carrying out reduction.
knowledge-based interventions, particularly
in environments affected by conflict. The track is intended for participants who are
professionally active or interested in research
This track is intended for participants with on the interface between the transnational,
a variety of disciplinary backgrounds who national and local level and/or between state
are professionally active or aspire to careers and non-state development actors. Students
in conflict-prone environments or post- should have work experience, academic
conflict situations or who are interested in interest or aspire to a career in the public
policy-oriented research on these topics. action domain, whether within government
Participants should have work experience or institutions (including public research
academic interest in the public action domain, institutions), donor agencies (including
whether within government institutions international NGOs, bilateral and multilateral
(including public research institutions), donors) or civil society (including research
donor agencies (including international non- institutes, universities).
governmental organisations, bilateral and
multilateral donors) or civil society (including
advocacy groups, research institutes
and universities).
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Master of
globalisation
and
development
Programme Content offers insight and tools with which to analyse
and improve the impact of the global context
The Master in Globalisation and Development on local development and poverty alleviation
approaches development as the outcome in the global South and vice versa. As such due
of intensifying global-to-local-to-global consideration is given to the complexity of local–
interactions, and introduces a multi-disciplinary global interactions in the multifaceted arenas of
perspective to analyse associated opportunities globalisation.
and threats to poverty alleviation and
environmental sustainability in low and middle- Successful students will be able to identify
income countries at both the national and local the opportunities of the evolving global
levels. Most of our students are engaged (or context, in addition to assessing and
aspire to become engaged) in interventions, remedying the risks and threats associated
(social) businesses, policy or advocacy that with the globalisation of the sustainable
promote inclusive and sustainable development, development challenge. They will also be able
whether as professionals or as researchers. to identify and assess policy and programme
interventions for more effective and adequate
The objective of the Master programme local, national and global development.
is to provide these students with a solid Additional skills include the identification and
understanding of the current global evaluation of development interventions aimed
development context in all of its dimensions at remedying the adverse effects of global
(worldwide markets for goods and services, tendencies on sustainable development in
capital and labour/migration, the planetary general and on the poorer and weaker groups
challenge of sustainable development in this in society in particular, thereby aiming to
era of environmental crisis/climate change). It strengthen the agency of the latter.
10 · master programmesGlobal Opportunities for Local Development
The master focuses on the analysis of the local, national to international) or between
interaction between external and local different arenas (e.g. civil society– government,
actors at the interface of global and local government–international forums and
development processes, in order to identify institutions, INGOs–national NGO).
the changing opportunities for and constraints
to beneficial institutional change for inclusive,
sustainable development and poverty reduction.
In this context, special attention is paid to the
way in which these interactions can produce
inequality and poverty, as well as how they
can promote wellbeing. Each student can focus
on one or two policy challenges at the local–
global interface and follow a tailormade study
trajectory. (e.g. inclusive value chains and/or
microfinance; the global financial architecture;
international migration; impact of trade policies;
access to land; governance of natural resources;
the climate change challenge; promotion of
gender justice; anti-slavery movement; …)
The programme is intended for participants
who have work experience or an interest
in pursuing careers in local, regional and/
or national government institutions; at
research institutes or universities; in
(social or green) businesses, local NGOs,
advocacy or entrepreneurial associations;
or in international organisations (e.g. with
international NGOs, bilateral and multilateral
institutions) or multinational corporations.
Candidates are actively involved in development
or poverty-reduction initiatives, in micro-level
or meso-level projects and programmes and/or
in macro-level policy makers. Professionally, the
candidates hold middle or upper management or
policy (or policy research) positions entailing at
least some experience at the interface between
different policy levels (e.g. international to
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Development
Evaluation
and
Management
Programme Content
The Master in Development Evaluation and Most of our students are engaged (or aspire
Management focuses on the efforts made to become engaged) in development, whether
by a wide range of public and private actors professionally and/or as researchers. The
to promote development. It provides a solid Master programme will improve the capacity
understanding of the past and present aid of these students to assess the strengths and
policies of multilateral and bilateral donors, weaknesses of the prevailing development
also addressing the major aid modalities paradigms and the envisaged role of aid
and instruments deployed. The institutional and external actors in promoting change.
characteristics of the actors involved – Students learn to appreciate the importance
be they governments, community-based of different institutional arenas, as well as
organisations, international NGOs, bilateral or how they work and interact. They will become
multilateral donors – are analysed in order to familiar with multidisciplinary analytical tools
attain a better understanding of development that will improve their capacity to analyse
processes and outcomes. The main theoretical interactions and enhance the conceptualisation,
perspective followed in this programme is that implementation, monitoring and evaluation of
development is best understood as a set of development policies and programmes.
interlocking collective action problems. The
Master programme offers methodological and The Master programme offers two tracks, each
practical insight into development evaluation, with specific objectives and course packages
its relevance and challenges. that are intended for a specific audience. The
first track is focused primarily on the macro level,
while the second focuses mainly on the micro
level.
12 · master programmesTrack 1: National Institutions, Track 2: Development Interventions
Poverty Reduction and Local Institutional Change
Strategies and Aid
The track in ‘Development Interventions and
The track in ‘National Institutions, Poverty Local Institutional Change’ conceptualises
Reduction Strategies and Aid’ focuses on the socio-political and economic development as
analysis of the interaction between national the outcome of interactions between a
institutions, local politics and external actors. conditioning institutional environment and the
The basic question addressed concerns why agency of local, national and international
development interventions are sometimes actors, including multilateral and bilateral,
successful but more often fail. This leads to governmental and non-governmental aid
further, more operational questions. Which actors. Special attention is paid to the
lessons have been learned from the study of importance of micro-level institutions and
past failures and successes, and how processes, as well as to how they condition the
convincing are current prescriptions and effectiveness of development efforts in
paradigms for development policy? The improving livelihoods and neutralising
programme teaches students to use processes of social exclusion. The detailed
appropriate analytical frameworks and to apply exploration of how local contexts transform
relevant scientific methods in evaluating processes involving the planning,
results and drawing policy conclusions. It implementation, monitoring and evaluation of
introduces students to various kinds of development interventions is of crucial
evaluation, based on quantitative as well as importance to recognising opportunities for
qualitative techniques. resolving the poverty conundrum.
This track is intended for participants who have This track is intended for participants who
work experience or who aspire to a career in have work experience or who aspire to a career
government institutions (including public in civil society in the South (e.g. at research
research institutions), donor agencies institutes or universities, or with local NGOs or
(including international NGOs, bilateral and entrepreneurial associations), donor agencies
multilateral donors), civil society (including (including international NGOs, bilateral
research institutes, universities). Candidates and multilateral donors) and government
work in the field of development intervention or institutions. Candidates should be involved
poverty reduction initiatives, and they are in development interventions or poverty
oriented towards macro-level policy. reduction initiatives in micro-level or meso-
Professionally, they are middle managers with level projects and programmes. Professionally,
policy responsibilities and/or responsibility for candidates are middle-managers with policy
managing the interface between different and/or managerial responsibilities at the
policy levels (e.g. national to international, interface between different policy levels (e.g.
national to local) or between different arenas local to national, national to international) or
(e.g. government-donors, INGO-national NGO). between different arenas (e.g. civil society-
government, government-donors, INGO-
national NGO).
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structure
Module I
(for all three master programmes)
Course Credits Period Course
coordinator
Theories of development 8 ECTS Sep – Jan Tom De Herdt
• Unit 1: Economic and institutional development
• Unit 2: Politics of development
• Unit 3: Poverty and inequality
Research methods I 4 ECTS Sep – Jan Bert Ingelaere
• Unit 1: Research in a development context
• Unit 2: Design and methodology in development research
Research Methods II 6 ECTS Sep – Jan German Calfat
Quantitative Units Johan Bastiaensen
• Unit 1: Working with Data Bert Ingelaere
• Unit 2: Regression Analysis and Inference
Qualitative Units
• Unit 3: Qualitative fieldwork and data collection
• Unit 4: Participatory Research and Development Methods
• Unit 5: Multi-Actor Processes in Development: Negotiation,
Collaboration and Mediation
• Unit 6: Analysing Text and Discourse in Development
Mobility Window (conditional upon selection process!)
• Unit 7: Research Internship at UCA (Nicaragua)
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Master of Globalisation and Development
Globalisation and Development Credits Period Course coordinator
Unit 1: Globalisation: the Basic Issues 12 ECTS Jan – Mar German Calfat
Unit 2: Sub-units on various topics:
− Trade policy: poverty impact and policy implications
− Financial globalisation and the poor
− Global value chain
− Global environment-development nexus
Unit 3: End-of-Module Paper
Master of Governance and Development
Governance for Development Credits Period Course coordinator
Unit 1: The political economy of governance and development 12 ECTS Jan – Mar Marijke Verpoorten
Unit 2: The state, governmentality and development
Unit 3: Law and development
Unit 4: End-of-module paper
Master of Development Evaluation and Management
Evaluating development effectiveness Credits Period Course
coordinator
Unit 1: Development Effectiveness: Unpacking the Concept 12 ECTS Jan – Mar Nathalie Holvoet
Unit 2: Development Monitoring and Evaluation: Introducing the
Landscape and Approaches
Unit 3: Selected Approaches to Development Evaluation (choose 2 out of
3 sub-units):
• Qualitative Development Monitoring and Evaluation
• Quantitative Development Evaluation
• To be announced November 2016
Unit 4: End-of-Module Paper
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Choose one out of two tracks. the MSc of Globalisation and Development only offers track 2
Track 1 Master of Governance and Development
From violent conflict to peace and state reconstruction Credits Period Course
coordinator
Unit 1: Analysis of violent conflict 12 ECTS Mar - May Stef Vandeginste
Unit 2: Conflict resolution and the peace process
Unit 3: State building after violent conflict
Unit 4: End-of-module paper
Track 1 Master of Development Evaluation and Management
National institutions, poverty reduction strategies and aid Credits Period Course
coordinator
Unit 1: Economics and Politics of Aid: an introduction 12 ECTS Mar - May Nadia Molenaers
Unit 2: Monitoring and Evaluation
Unit 3: Selected Topics (choose one out of three)
• Governing for Development
• Macro-Economic and Fiscal Management of Aid
• Engendering Development
Unit 4: End-of-module paper
Track 2 (same for all three master programmes)
Local institutions and poverty reduction Credits Period Course coordinator
Unit 1: Theory and Concepts 12 ECTS Mar - May Johan Bastiaensen
Unit 2: Introduction to specific topics (choose 2 sub-units):
• Access to public services
• Access to natural resources
• Access to markets and value chains
• Access to financial services
• Gender and development: a local institutional perspective
• Local governance
• Struggles over land rights and (ecologically responsible) land use
• Assessing the impact of trade policies
• International migration and development
Unit 3: End-of-module paper
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Course Credits Period Course
coordinator
Dissertation 18 ECTS May - Marijke
Sep Verpoorten
Master of Master of Master of Development
Governance & Globalisation & Evaluation &
Development Development Management
Module I Theories of Development - Research Methods I and II
Governance for Globalisation & Evaluating Development
Module II
Development Development Effectiveness
TRACK 2
TRACK 1
TRACK 1
TRACK 2 TRACK 2
From Violent National Institutions,
Module III Conflict to Peace Local Institutions & Poverty Reduction
and State Poverty Reduction Strategies & Aid
Reconstruction
Module IV Dissertation
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support
staff
TEACHING staff
ABAINZA CALFAT DE ROECK
Loresel Germán Mattias
100% 100% 100%
researcher lecturer researcher
ALIDOU CASSIMON
DE WEERDT
Sahawal Danny
Joachim
100% 100% 50%
researcher professor senior lecturer
ESSERS
BASTIAENSEN CLAESSENS Dennis
Johan Klara
100%
100% 100% post-doctoral
professor researcher researcher
BOGAERT DE HERDT GEENEN
Nick Tom Sara
100% 100% 100%
researcher senior lecturer lecturer
18 · master programmesGLEIBERMAN MOLENAERS VAN HECKEN
Mollie Nadia Gert
100% 100% 100%
researcher senior lecturer lecturer
HOLVOET POPELIER VANCLUYSEN
Nathalie Lisa sarah
100% 100% 100%
professor researcher researcher
HOWARD porter
Neil Holly VANDEGINSTE
Stef
100% 100%
post-doctoral 100%
post-doctoral
researcher lecturer
researcher
SCHUSTER
INGELAERE Monica VERPOORTEN
Bert Marijke
100%
100% post-doctoral 100%
lecturer researcher lecturer
LECOUTERE
Els TITECA WINDEY
Kristof Catherine
100%
post-doctoral 100% 100%
researcher lecturer researcher
iob· 19Bureau: Master programmes:
• Chair: Tom De Herdt • Student secretariat:
Greet Annaert, Nicole Dierckx
• Chair Education Commission:
Nadia Molenaers • Social service: Greet Annaert
• Chair Research Commission: • Quality assurance: Ciska De Ruyver
Johan Bastiaensen • Alumni and promotion:
• Representative Research Staff: Sara Dewachter
Mathias De Roeck • Librarian: Hans De Backer
• Representative Support Staff: Secretariats:
Vicky Verlinden
• Institute Coordinator: Vicky Verlinden
Commissions and committees • Research secretariat: Joëlle Dhondt,
chair persons: Katleen Van pellicom, Patricia Franck
• PhD commission: Johan Bastiaensen • Financial secretariat: An Vermeesch
• Social committee: Nadia Molenaers • Flemish Interuniversity cooperation
• Library committee: Danny Cassimon with Burundi: Marjan Vermeiren
• IT commission: Karel Verbeke
Support staff
ANNAERT DEWACHTER
Greet Sara
80% 50%
social & student alumni &
secretariat promotion
DIERCKX
BAETENS Nicole
Marleen
50%
50% student
quality assurance secretariat
VERMEESCH
DE BACKER An
Hans
80%
100% financial
librarian secretariat
20 · master programmesPractical
INFORMATION
Application Procedure and Deadlines Institute, students should note that only VLIR-UOS
scholars will receive scholarship payments during this
The application period for each academic year starts period. Students should submit their visa applications
on the 1st November of the previous year. Applicants well in advance, in order to ensure that they are able
need to complete an online application form before to participate in this programme.
submitting hard copies of the documents listed below.
Detailed information on the application procedure is Scholarships
available on our website www.uantwerp.be/iob. The Flemish Interuniversity Council (VLIR-UOS)
Selection Procedure offers 12 scholarships for each Master programme.
Applications will be assessed academically by a The Belgian Technical Cooperation (BTC) manages
selection commission composed of academic staff scholarships awarded by the Belgian Directorate
members. Academic selection is based on the General for Development Cooperation (DGD). Further
following five selection criteria: information can be obtained from the Belgian Embas-
sy. http://www.btcctb.org/
- Appropriateness of the applicant’s field of study
The DGD provides a selected overview of study and
- Quality of the education and results/grades training grants for students from developing
obtained countries.
- Relevance of the applicant’s professional experience http://diplomatie.belgium.be/en/policy/development_
(if applicable) cooperation/grants/study_and_training_grants/
- Motivation of the applicant Information about other scholarships can be found on
- Matching (does the content of the programme our website : http://www.uantwerp.be/iob
match the expectations of the applicant?)
Intensive Language Course
Students with insufficient knowledge of English (as
detailed on Page 7) will be required to follow an More practical information
intensive language course, which starts in mid-August can be found on
and runs for six weeks. In addition to bringing the
student’s English competency up to the required level, www.uantwerpen.be/iob
this course also includes an introduction to the
literature and practice of international development.
Although the course is offered free of charge by the
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impressions
Alumni who have completed the programmes IOB graduates are within the governmental
in the past are able to reflect on the merits of sector (e.g. Ministry of Finance, Ministry
their education at IOB from some distance and of Planning), parliaments, international/
with the benefit of hindsight, drawing upon the supranational organisations (e.g. United
professional experience they have since gained. Nations, African Union, European Commission,
What do IOB alumni think of the IOB educational Asian/Africa/Inter-American Development
programmes? Bank), national NGOs, INGOs (e.g.
Transparency International, Oxfam, World
The results are very encouraging: an Vision, Action Aid), higher education/research
overwhelming majority of our alumni (92%) are (universities, consultancies, think tanks) and
satisfied with the education that they received bilateral or multilateral donor agencies (e.g.
at IOB. Four out of five alumni would definitely World Bank, USAID, GTZ).
encourage others to study here. Hardly any
alumni are dissatisfied or would not recommend
IOB.
Would you encourage someone to study at the IOB ?
Of all IOB alumni, 95% feel that their studies 0% 0%
at IOB prepared them adequately for their 4%
subsequent careers. Most (96%) had (partially)
improved themselves jobwise as a result of 16 % definitely would
studying at IOB. probably would
Most IOB graduates work (or continue to work) maybe
80 %
in the governmental sector (24 %), international probably not
organisations (19%), NGOs (13%) and higher definitely not
education/research institutes (13%).
Some of the most common employers among
22 · master programmes“My year at IOB felt only “It is no exaggeration to “My year at IOB was full “The programme has
like a week, but has describe my year at IOB/ of opportunities to learn expanded my social
provided me with Antwerp as enriching and from diverse sources. The network abroad.”
memories and knowledge rewarding. In fact, the diversity at IOB made me
for a lifetime.” well-structured feel I am getting “Trying to find solutions
curriculum of IOB and the educated in as many for major governance and
multicultural countries at the same development problems in
environment has made time. Without any the Third World with
“Very thrilling. Full of colleagues from various
me a better person, and exaggeration, IOB is a
events and cultural and academic
this serves as a grand fountain of
uncompromising backgrounds has
springboard of reaching knowledge and wisdom.”
activities. Exciting but sometimes made me feel
greater heights in my
short. Glorious but “The joy of beating as if I was at the UN.”
academic and
provocative because the deadlines. #Extremely
professional pursuits. The
study environment rewarding” “It gave me a whole
exposure and the unique
charges you to probe into new perspective on
skills I have obtained here
cross-cutting issues in “At IOB I experienced the world affairs. It’s hard to
shape the future”
development.” world in one classroom. ” explain in words exactly,
but I believe my views
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