What is the relevance of MACESS?
MACESS is committed to contributing to the knowledge-base in the social and human professions with a European perspective and a strong research base. These are times of power politics, growing poverty, dispersed populations and the exploitation of vulnerable groups. This and failing welfare regimes all over the world call for creative, reflective practitioners to work with individuals, families, groups, and communities in need.
Benefits of MACESS
MACESS empowers its students to become better scholars, researchers, managers and professionals; engaging them with communities (in the widest sense) and committing them to an intercultural and interdisciplinary understanding to social change.
MACESS has three pillars - research, policy, and practice – to achieve this goal. MACESS graduates are social professionals that are flexible, mobile and reflective: vital assets in a market-oriented society. All students are taught to move within a learning and information society. They learn to adapt working methods and languages and to manage societal and global change.
Through a choice from two out of four optional modules, students can further specialise in social research, management, advanced social practice, and social professional education.
MACESS alumni can be found working as:
- Professors and lecturers in universities
- Directors and managers of both small and big organizations
- Senior practitioners at the frontline of health and social care practice
- Researchers and authors
- Consultants
- Policy advisors to governments and organizations
- etc.
