MITRA — Erasmus Mundus Master

MITRA is an innovative programme of excellence at Master’s level funded by the ERASMUS Mundus Programme of the European Commission. MITRA is a bilingual (English and French) interdisciplinary programme taught over two years with a focus on transnational migration. 

Prompted by the widespread contemporary experience of transnational mobility and migration, MITRA aims to equip graduates with expertise in transnational migration issues and intercultural mediation. For more information about the programme, see the MITRA Website 

Students who are accepted on the programme are eligible to receive scholarships funded through ERASMUS Mundus to cover study costs.

UCC is a partner in the MITRA programme and students can spend their third and/or fourth semester here. To find out more about the programme, feel free to contact Dr. Kate Hodgson kate.hodgson@ucc.ie and Dr Sinan Richards sinan.richards@ucc.ie.

Modules on offer to MITRA students at UCC include the following:

• LW6634: Refugee and Forced Displacement Law;
• LL6111: Theorising the Global: Migration Studies, Postcolonialism, and Critical Theory;
• LL6037: Migration and Culture;
• LL6038: Metropolis, Mobility and Minorities.

More information about these modules is available on our website. Modules available for study can vary from year to year depending on staffing and other factors.