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Organizing and Managing Digital Transformation
Examine how digital technologies impact core organizational processes and reshape relationships between and within organizations. In the track Organizing and Managing Digital Transformation at Tilburg University you study how organizations respond, adjust, and navigate technological transformations from multiple perspectives. This is a track of the MSc Organization and Management Studies.
International and European Governance
No nation-state can solve today's global challenges on its own. At the International and European Governance MSc programme at Leiden University you will obtain a deep understanding of the interplay between the international, EU, and (sub)national governance systems and how this interplay affects a national government's capacity to address cross-border societal challenges.
Philosophical Perspectives on Politics and the Economy
The Philosophical Perspectives on Politics and the Economy MA programme at Leiden University continues the programme formerly known as Philosophy, Politics and Economics.

Research Master in Communication, Cognition and Digital Culture
The Research Master's program in Communication, Cognition and Digital Culture is a two-year course of study offered for excellent preparation for a PhD or a career at a research agency. With a wide range of substantive electives and method subjects, you develop your unique research profile. Tilburg University offers the Research Master in Communication, Cognition and Digital Culture programme.
Philosophy of Law Governance and Politics
This Philosophy of Law Governance and Politics MA programme at Leiden University introduces the student to the philosophical issues on the intersection of law, politics, and policy. This master’s programme is meant for students who wish to combine an MA in Law, Political Science, Public Administration, or an adjacent discipline with an MA in Philosophy Law, Governance, and Politics.
European Union Law (International and European Law)
Many of today’s challenges demand a response from EU law. As the most sophisticated international organization in the world the EU deals with issues like (mass) migration, climate change and cybercrime. This European Union Law (International and European Law) Master’s track from University of Amsterdam gives you the tools to unlock the many fields of EU law and to critically reflect on them.
European Studies (Research)
The European Studies (Research) master’s at Maastricht University is an interdisciplinary programme that combines political science and international relations with history and sociology.
Management, Policy Analysis and Entrepreneurship in Health and Life Sciences - Health and Life Sciences-based Management and Ent
How should we respond to an increase of Meningococcal disease? These are the types of questions addressed in this Management, Policy Analysis and Entrepreneurship in Health and Life Sciences - Health and Life Sciences-based Management and Entrepreneurship course offered at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Social and Cultural Science - Comparative Research on Societies (Research)
Have you ever wondered how diversity, solidarity and inequality are connected? Or how to counter radicalisation? How segregation in social networks arises? How organisational processes influence inequality? This programme is the one for you!

Communication and Information Sciences - Communication and Cognition
In this track of the Communication and Information Sciences - Communication and Cognition at Tilburg University you will combine the study of cognition, language and communication to learn which factors determine whether communication will be successful.
Environmental Geography (Human Geography)
The Environmental Geography (Human Geography) programme of the University of Amsterdam focuses on the relationship between humans and their ecosystem. Environmental challenges can be approached from different perspectives, which are analysed while taking spatial dynamics into account.
Business Economics
The 1-year academic Master’s programme in Business Economics from University of Amsterdam teaches you to conduct research in business economics subjects. Choose from our top-level tracks: Managerial Economics, Strategy or Neuroeconomics and Sustainability.
Environmental Psychology
How can psychology help us understand and solve environmental and energy-related problems? How can we motivate and empower people to act pro-environmentally and adapt to a changing environment? Questions like these are addressed in the Master programme Environmental Psychology at the University of Groningen.
Psychology
Psychology is the key to understanding and modifying human behaviour and development. We offer a master degree in Psychology at the University of Groningen.
Engineering and Policy Analysis
The central focus of the Engineering and Policy Analysis of Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) is on analysing and solving complex problems that involve many parties with conflicting interests.

Metaphysics and Philosophical Anthropology
What is the nature of reality? What does it mean to be human? In the Research Master in Metaphysics and Philosophical Anthropology, you explore fundamental questions about reality and subjectivity in relation to contemporary existential challenges.
Forensic and Legal Psychology
This Forensic and Legal Psychology programme at Erasmus University Rotterdam focuses on psychological contributions to both forensic and legal contexts.

Human Geography - Conflicts, Territories and Identities
How do we make sense of conflict and in/security? What are the causes that spark violence and war? And how are war, terrorism and in/security framed and what shapes do they take in practice at local, regional, national and international levels? How do territorial and identity issues shape and are shaped by conflict, violence and insecurity?
Communication Studies
The programme in Communication Studies at University of Groningen is one of the programmes of the MA-programme Communication and Information Studies.
Philosophy (part-time)
The Philosophy (part-time) at Erasmus University Rotterdam is the place where cutting edge philosophical research meets the classroom. Students engage in contemporary philosophical debates centered on the great challenges of our time.