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This Erasmus Mundus MFAMILY is a two year
master programme of 120 ECTS. Students will spend a semester each in
Lisbon, Stavanger and Gothenburg before moving to the desired partner
institution to work on their master’s thesis. The language of
instruction for the programme is English. Upon completion of the
programme, students will be awarded a joint degree by the consortium.
The programme is jointly developed by ISCTE
- University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL), University of Gothenburg
(UGOT), University of Stavanger (UiS) and Makerere University (MU).
MFAMILY is also proud of the active participation of 26 associate
partners, 8 of which are higher education institutions from several
continents. This gives the programme a truly global character, and a
great potential to respond to needs in skills development, teaching,
research and employability in the area of social work with children and
families.
This master addresses the improvement of
knowledge and skills for people working with interventions for
vulnerable children and marginalized families. MFAMILY will develop an
education that will provide unique knowledge and innovative competences
for international comparative child and family social work. Students
will be updated on the latest research and practices on social work
interventions for vulnerable children and families. This master
programme aims to enhancepostgraduate students’ employability through
the improvement of skills and knowledge in order to match the needs of
EU actions to protect children from violence and other vulnerabilities
as well as to work with the pressure on modern families. The students
will hold unique competences that are demanded from local and national
governmental institutions as well as from NGOs and private actors in the
field of social work and social welfare. The qualified students from
MFAMILY will represent a group with expert knowledge in a field with
great demand for new solutions, especially in times of economic
downturn.
All the universities involved in this
consortium will contribute with excellent standards of teaching and
research expertise on themes focused on family issues and the rights of
the children, on migration and globalization processes dealing with
children and families, as well as on social work and social research
methods, to get a comprehensive and comparative view. The programme also
covers cross-country/continental comparisons in relation to welfare
models and situations for marginalized families and children at risk.
Underlying this programme is an understanding that social work with
families and children gains from an integrative, critical approach where
multidisciplinary perspectives and cross country/continental traditions
are taken into account. The learning experience is based on interplay
between theory and practice, which will be reflected in the final master
dissertation and in the future professional capabilities acquired by
the students.
