Master's Programme: Labour
Policies and Globalisation

It, therefore, pursues the following learning and teaching objectives:

1. Basics for the understanding of global economic, political, and social changes open new opportunities and new challenges for trade unions: new approaches to sustainable development, strategies to combat poverty and discrimination, and to extend social protection; reforms of policies, laws, and institutions, improvements in employment access, working conditions, labour relations, and human resource development (including capabilities for learning and organisation-building). 
2. Competences to identify social problems in society and to develop appropriate solutions, to incorporate social analyses and participation into the design and implementation of development projects, to do quick and robust research, to collect and generate relevant data, to use empirical tools including indicators used to assess impacts, to monitor performances, and to evaluate the effects of problem solutions and projects.
3. Abilities to transfer knowledge, to identify and disseminate good practices as well as lessons learned from failures, to mobilise and organise workers in the formal and the informal economy in order to advance their own interests, to build up networks with a wide range of actors and groups from trade unions and civil society, to build up pools of expertise, to contribute to successful forms of social dialogue, to ensure that all segments of society can make their voices heard, to improve and strengthen the work of trade unions, especially in international and trans-cultural contexts.

In achieving these objectives both universities place special emphasis on:

• considering gender equality in opportunities and rights;
• a multidisciplinary approach;
• internships in particular with trade union organisations at the company, local, national or international level;
• the integration of the team approach and research workshops with individual advice.