European Studies

Welcome to the website of the leading European Studies programme in Denmark! We offer English-language social science programmes on contemporary European issues, culture and politics with a particular focus on the EU and European political and economic integration.

At Aalborg University we pioneered advanced teaching methods such as Problem-Based Learning, a

Simulation Game and internships, which are integral to all our courses. Our approach is interdisciplinary, as is our department. We see advances across several academic fields, and this approach allows our students a wide choice of topics to work with during their project work.

We offer five types of courses:

• A Master's Programme of two years, starting every year in early September
• A Guest Student Programme of half a year, starting in February and September
• A three-year, fully paid PhD programme, and
• Half-year to one-year international PhD guest exchange programmes.

Students with a Bachelors degree (BA) in the social sciences or equivalent are admitted, provided

that their English skills are sufficient. About half of our students are Danes, the majority of our foreign students are Europeans, the rest mostly from Asia and North America.

The teaching staff has been appointed to cover central areas within European Studies at the highest level, and the European Commission has granted our European Studies Group two Jean Monnet Chairs.

Our research activities cover various subjects. Comparative integration studies have become a particular focus of our research. Other staff members work e.g. on problems of European Political Economy.

Any day at the Department you will meet staff from at least four continents, and you will regularly bump into guest lecturing African chiefs, NGO activists, military generals, accomplished top diplomats and other civil servants, and, of course, scholars from practically everywhere on the planet.

Aalborg is a charming town with a rich variation of cultural and social activities, located in the pleasant varied Northern Juttish landscape with the Limfjord, wooden hills and open fields, two sea shores not being far away.

You can read more about the European Studies programme in this brochure
 

Enjoy, and join us!

The European Studies Lecturers