The MCR is designed for professionals who work with children’s rights, these may include: lawyers, psychologists, sociologists, judges, social workers, government officials, staff from non-governmental organisations, academics and journalists.
The participation of students with different backgrounds and levels of professional experience in an interactive learning environment helps to foster exchange at both theoretical and practical levels.
The MCR is an interdisciplinary and international part-time two-years postgraduate master programme, which attracts a large range of graduate students from all over the world.
The MCR combines residential teaching and distance learning.
It privileges both an international and an interdisciplinary
approach of children’s rights. The learning objectives of the
MCR are:
- To acquire extended and specialised knowledge in children’s
rights in their theoretical and practical dimensions.
- To deepen understanding of the role of international
instruments on children’s rights in the implementation,
monitoring and evaluation processes.
- To develop critical thinking on the implementation of the
Convention on the Rights of the Child.
