Summer Schools and Short Programmes

EUROMASTERS - MA Contemporary European Studies

Established in 1995, the Euromasters is a unique graduate-level programme that focuses on contemporary Europe and the role of Europe in the wider world. Students learn about EU institutions, European integration, societal modernization and democratization in European countries, Europe’s role in international relations and its position in the international security architecture. They focus on the pressing issues Europe faces today such as security, immigration and economic disparity.
Euromasters educates students by way of classroom and experiential learning environments. We train individuals in the methods of social-science critical inquiry and cultural adaptability. We remain committed to and engaged with the alumni community as our graduates pursue many different types of goals in international diplomacy, business, education, politics, law, and research.

VISITING SEMESTER IN SIENA

The University of Siena participates in a two-year itinerant master program (Euromaster) among various prestigious European universities and the University of North Carolina. The organizing academic institution, where students must enroll and spend the first period of study, is the University of Bath. Students can study at two or three partner sites of the EAUC in Europe or the US. Our University hosts students who choose this location for the third semester, who can also stay in Siena a second semester, for the completion of their thesis. 

The module in Siena will offer Special Expertise in several topics, including Political Institutions and Political Élites in Europe, Challenges and conflicts in contemporary Europe, Nationalism and Populism in Europe, Mediterranean politics. Students will follow three core modules (below) and will have the opportunity to choose elective courses among the subjects included in the USiena offer (MA in European Studies and Public and Cultural Diplomacy)

THE FACULTY 2024/2025
Luca Verzichelli

Euromaster Academic Coordinator of USIena team

Instructor (Module Mediterranean Politics)

Professor of political science and global comparative politics. Former member of the Executive board of the European Consortium of Political Research and the Coimbra group of European Universities. He has extensively published on European political élites and political institutions

Paolo Perri

Responsible and Instructor (Module Stateless nationalism in Europe)
Research Fellow in Contemporary History at the University of Valle d’Aosta after having
held several research positions in Italy and abroad (Belgium, UK, Spain, USA). His main
research topics include the history of nationalism, sub-state nationalism, pro-
independence movements and ethnic conflicts

Paul Corner

Former Professor at the University of Siena, where he taught contemporary European,
history and directed the Centre for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes.
Founder member of the Euromasters consortium. He has published books and articles on
Italian Fascism and on totalitarianism in general

Rossella Borri

Instructor (Module Populism and extremism in Contemporary Europe)

Senior Data Manager at IPSOS (Milan) and Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Political
Change at the University of Siena. Former Euromaster Academic Tutor. She has published
in the fields of Populism and European far-right Extremism

Laila Abd El Gawed

Tutor
Background in Intercultural Mediation (BA) and Public and Cultural Diplomacy (MA) is a
junior project manager specialising in the fields of international cooperation and human
rights. She is collaborating on two international Master’s programmes, in EU affairs and
Conflict Management respectively, at the University of Siena.