The demographic changes are progressing and present new challenges for our societies, politics, the economy, and health systems. Do you want to be part of the effort to address the challenges of demographic change and contribute to a brighter future for our community and society?
Interdisciplinary and international Joint Master Programme
The Joint Master’s programme “Active Ageing and Age-Friendly Society” (EMMA) addresses the effects of demographic change by developing an interdisciplinary and transnational study programme. It prepares you to develop and implement innovative models of action on the topic of ageing and promotes future-oriented concepts of Active Ageing and an Age-Friendly Society.
This interdisciplinary and international master’s programme is conducted by five partner universities:
- Carinthia University of Applied Sciences (CUAS), Austria, coordinator of the joint programme EMMA
- The University of Lisbon (UniLisbon), Portugal
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece
- University College Cork (UCC), Ireland
- Karelia University of Applied Sciences (KareliaUAS), Finland
The curriculum combines interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches of ageing research, including areas such as social sciences, politics, economics, technology, and health, in both theory and practice. Students acquire in-depth knowledge and critical perspectives on active aging and societal changes associated with demographic shifts. These skills help to face the effects of demographic change and to shape the future.
The contents of the EMMA Joint Programme emerged from the Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership Project EMMA (2020 – 2023) which was co-funded by the European Union.
A highlight of the EMMA Master’s programme is within its structure, as a transnational, intersectoral and interdisciplinary joint programme, delivered by partner universities throughout Europe. This enables perspectives that go beyond national borders and includes global considerations as well as knowledge transfer. Through this, students acquire important transnational professional competencies in the field of aging studies and future skills to sustainably shape ageing and the ageing processes based on transnational knowledge.
- 2-year Master’s Joint Programme with 120 ECTS
- 100% English
- Academic degree: Master of Science (M.Sc.), awarded by five European Universities (The conditions for the awarding of the degree in this joint programme are recorded in the contract of training and education.)
- Intersectoral and transnational perspectives
