IAC/EADI Accreditation
The International Accreditation Council for Global Development Studies and Research

The purpose of this post is three-fold. Firstly, it is to establish a regional GCE Knowledge Exchange Partnership mainly in Slovakia and Slovenia - called South-Eastern partnership - by building a network of practitioners and scholars. Secondly, it is central in organising three regional events to exchange practical and academic knowledge on GCE. Thirdly, it makes sure that ideas developed and knowledge gathered within the regional network is fed into the process of creating a massive open online course (MOOC).

EADI is delighted to announce the successful accreditation of the “Master International Development Studies” offered by the University of Amsterdam. IAC/EADI wishes to congratulate UvA on the overall excellent quality and unique features of its programme.

The Master International Development Studies programme of the University of Amsterdam is meant to introduce students to development studies as a distinctly multi-disciplinary field. The objectives of the programme include educating students in the history and theories of development, familiarising them with different disciplinary perspectives on development, such as those from sociology, anthropology and human geography, acquainting them with the multi-scalar context of development processes, recognising relations between local, regional, national and global levels and teaching them about interaction and unequal power relations between actors within context-specific institutional environments.

EADI is delighted to announce the successful accreditation of the Master in Interdisciplinary Development Studies (MIDS) offered by the Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios sobre Desarrollo (CIDER) of Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. The MIDS offers a two-year graduate programme in development studies in Colombia.

IAC / EADI congratulates UEL on the overall excellent quality and unique features of its MSc programme NGO and Development Management. This established course, which has been running for ten years, examines the central issues facing developing countries in today’s globalised world, giving students the skills for a job in development and the wider sectors.

The aim of the course is to prepare for a career as an informed and critical development practitioner. Students will be equipped with all the practical skills that are demanded by development agencies and will also gain insight across the wider picture, understanding how developing countries can progress and how the poor can be mobilised to escape from the poverty trap.

The Advanced Master in International Development (AMID) programme of the Radboud University Nijmegen (RU) is a one-year dual programme. The starting point for AMID is that positive social change can only be realised in collaboration between different actors such as government, private sector, NGOs and knowledge institutes.

EADI has accredited the “Master’s in Contemporary Development of China”, offered by the School of Social Development and Public Policy at Beijing Normal University. The programme welcomes application for the year 2016 / 2017 by 15 June 2016. For scholarships, please check out the SSDPP website (Deadlines 15th March and 15th May).

From 22-25 April the EUSA_ID Mid-term meeting took place at the Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany.

IAC/EADI accredites the Master programme in International Development Studies from the Palacký University in Olomouc

IAC/EADI participates as a quality assurance partner in the EUSA ID mobility programme