International Cooperation and Development

Overview

The Master's Course in International Cooperation and Development at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore  trains young professionals to contribute to development cooperation with their knowledge, creativity, personality and professional competences to: 

• Identify local needs through a bottom-up approach

• Manage technical, financial and administrative aspects of cooperation initiatives

• Involve local civil society in identifying and managing resources

• Collaborate with national and international institutions within the local policy framework

• Promote good governance, human rights and human dignity within state and non state actors

• Address transnational issues such as migration, trafficking and money laundering

• Promote participatory processes, institution and democracy building

Career prospects

The MICaD programme conjugates theoretical knowledge and practical experience, so to give students a specific set of professional skills to successfully face the global job market, and to foster development cooperation with personal creativity competence:

• Identifying local needs, valorizing partnering, bottom-up approaches.

• Managing technical, financial and administrative aspects of cooperation initiatives.

• Accompanying development actors and civil society in identifying resources and deciding upon their use.

• Collaborating with national and international institutions within the policy framework of the country where projects are implemented.