The programme is especially recommended for prospective PhD students. Our best alumni are currently attending doctorate programmes at the Central European University of Budapest, University of Dublin, Harvard University, University of Kent, the New School in New York, University of Oxford, Saint Petersburg State University and other prestigious international academic institutions. Moreover, the programme is designed to forge analysts, area experts, consultants and mediators, to meet the needs of research institutes, the European Commission, international agencies, voluntary organizations and NGO's, public administration, managers, corporations and banks located in East-Central Europe and the Balkans or promoting investments in these regions. Most of our alumni have found employment precisely in these fields. The MIREES programme offers specialized, in-depth knowledge of the post-socialist countries in transition, the new EU member states, and the new East-European neighbour countries to students with a BA in Economics, Politics, International Relations, History, Languages (and Slavic languages in particular), agricultural studies and cultural studies generally. The programme aims at developing language skills. MIREES offers courses in Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, Bulgarian, Russian, Slovak, Lithuanian (Hungarian is also available in the 2nd year), as well as Italian for foreigners as an additional option. The curriculum is focused on Central, Eastern Europe and the Balkans and includes interdisciplinary studies in economics; history, media and international relations; politics and sociology. The international dimension of the programme is enhanced through student mobility abroad, through courses offered by an international faculty composed of prominent scholars of international repute, and by a genuinely international student body. In the previous cycles we enrolled students from 32 countries including China, USA, Mexico, Russia, Georgia, Estonia, Macedonia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Serbia, Germany, United Kingdom, Turkey, Albania, Poland, Armenia, Norway, Slovenia, Ukraine, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Azerbaijan, Slovakia, Finland, Ireland, Lithuania, Belarus, Moldova, Romania, Austria, France and, of course, Italy.

More detailed information on the teaching plan, the Faculty and the call for applications can be found at our web site: http://www.mirees.unibo.it/<http://www.iecob.net/main/index.php?ption=com_jlinks&controller=redirect&link=acjrl2jt5pbz8g&lktype=acamail&subsid=10881>

A video presentation realized by Mirees students is available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcaIOeAZeZo<http://www.iecob.net/main/index.php?option=com_jlinks&controller=redirect&link=acjrl2jt5pbz8g1&lktype=acamail&subsid=10881>

Should you need further information, please feel free to contact the Academic Tutor of the course (dora.komnenovic@unibo.it<mailto:dora.komnenovic@unibo.it>) or the Mirees Secretariat (elisa.landi3@unibo.it<mailto:elisa.landi3@unibo.it>, phone+39.0543.374149.