MA/MS in Regional Management

General Description: Objective(s) of a study programme: To train specialists of public administration able to analyse, to think critically, to resolve problems, and to take evidence-based management decisions, who would collaborate with citizens and stakeholders and enable them to take part in public management and who would be aware of, and able to recognize, public interests and ethical principles. Learning outcomes: 1. Students are able to know and understand regional governance and the cores thematical knowledge related with it, able to characterize it, highlights discourses, theories, facts and interconnections. 2. Students have the ability to prepare the regions and regional governance projects, to combine empirical, prognostic, evaluative, normative and other principles of creative work. 3. Students have the ability critically evalaute context of the region and practical issues, interdisciplinary to conceptualize and transform them to regional governance problems. 4. Students have an ability to preparare the strategies, programmes and projects for implementation of regional governance, to construct the sceanarios for regional governance research, improvement, research of public needs, information, consultation and safeguarding transparency of performance. 5. Students have an ability to use scientific research knowledges, have research work experience and skills of systemizing and strategic thinking for independent professional and scientific research work. Activities of teaching and learning: Lectures, Seminaris, Projects, Case studies Methods of assessment of learning achievements: Exam, Colloquium Framework: Study subjects (modules), practical training: Regional Development, Participatory Governance in Regions, EU regional policy, Evaluation of Regional Programs, Sustainable Organizational Development, Methodologies of Regional Governance, Inter-institutional Organizational Networks, Scientific Work, Master Thesis. Specialisations: Optional courses: Distinctive features of a study programme: Access to professional activity or further study: Access to professional activity: Masters of regional governance can proceed with their professional carriers as public official, researcher, expert. They can continue their studies at doctoral level and work at: 1) Supranational institutions: for example EC DG Regio directorate; 2) administration of international organizations: for example the Council of the Baltic Sea States; 3) national, regional and local administrations. Access to further study: Access to the third cycle studines.