Master of Arts in Transnational Governance

Empowering future leaders to solve transnational problems.

We will support you in acquiring the tools, the knowledge, and the network, to design new responses to the unprecedented challenges our society will face during the next decade and beyond.

The Master in Transnational Governance (MTnG) is a two-year program offered by the EUI School of Transnational Governance (STG). The curriculum empowers students to go beyond traditional perspectives and to design and implement innovative, effective, and sustainable public policy solutions for a globalized world.

This residential program is taught at the STG’s headquarters in the heart of Florence. Students can also participate in outstanding academic activities offered by other European University Institute departments. In a truly international environment and embedded within a network of partner institutions, the program includes a compulsory curricular internship and a wealth of opportunities to spend a semester studying abroad.

Combining interdisciplinary perspectives with hands-on training

Designed to examine the most pressing policy issues of our time through an interdisciplinary lens, the MTnG brings together political science, international relations, public policy, economics, and law. You will consider governance beyond nation-states and will be equipped not only with the knowledge of policy tools suitable for solving transnational problems but also with how best to combine and orchestrate these tools to design effective, outcome-driven policy solutions.

As a Masters' student at the School of Transnational Governance, you will:

• examine the most pressing policy issues from an interdisciplinary perspective.
• be part of a diverse class with students from all over the world.
• learn through a diverse set of applied learning methodologies.
• be taught by an outstanding international faculty of academic scholars and public policy practitioners.
• learn to think ‘outside the box’.
• benefit from the resources and network of the European University Institute.
• interact one-to-one with professors and other members of the community.

The European University Institute (EUI) is a transnational hub for interdisciplinary research and higher learning, situated on the hills near Florence, Italy. The Institute is composed of four departments—Economics, History and Civilisation, Law, and Political and Social Sciences; the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies; the Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies; the School of Transnational Governance; and the Historical Archives of the European Union.

The EUI is the leading institute in Europe dedicated to social sciences and humanities. Founded in 1972 by the six original members of the then European Communities, the EUI has earned a reputation as a transnational hub of research and higher learning.

Our Mission

The EUI’s outstanding doctoral, postdoctoral, master, and executive education programs, combined with our vibrant community of more than 1000 scholars from over 60 countries, create an empowering, intellectual climate where students and researchers can contribute to the betterment of society.

The EUI is perfectly placed to generate new insights that help our societies move forward.

Professor Renaud Dehousse EUI President

Each year, approximately 150 new Ph.D. researchers embark on a research-intensive doctoral program in our departments of Economics, History and Civilisation, Law, and Political and Social Sciences. The EUI is also home to the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSC), founded in 1992 to carry out research on the major issues facing Europe, and to bridge the world of academia and practice through interdisciplinary and applied research.

The Max Weber Programme is the largest and most innovative international postdoctoral program in the Social Sciences and Humanities in Europe. It offers approximately 60 fully-funded Fellowships to qualified researchers worldwide working in or across the relevant disciplines of the EUI.

The EUI’s School of Transnational Governance (STG), established in 2017, prepares current and future leaders in policy-making beyond the state. In September 2020, our first group of students started the two-year Master in Transnational Governance . STG also offers a policy leader fellowship program and executive education. The EUI campus proudly hosts the Historical Archives of the European Union (HAEU), which provides an unparalleled insight into the workings of the European Union.

Our Vision

A Social Sciences and Humanities hub connecting academic excellence and research capabilities across Europe and to the world of policy and practice, for the betterment of society.

Our Ambition

We aspire to cultivate high-level contributors to academics and policy-making who will shape social progress and the advancement of the European spirit.

Our values

• We are united in pluralism
• We are grounded in academic freedom and rigor
• We are driven by intellectual curiosity and challenge
• We are enriched through open-minded, multidisciplinary thinking

Partners

The European University Institute engages in relations with numerous institutions in its Contracting States and across the world. These relationships foster joint research, shared initiatives, and promote dialogue and knowledge transfer for educational and scientific purposes with communities both near and far. They also facilitate the exchange of students, researchers, faculty, and staff, and offer internship opportunities to master’s students.