VALIDATION OF PRIOR PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Inspired by recent initiatives to that effect within the European Union, ISGG offers a programme dedicated to the academic validation of prior professional experience.

      

This programme is notably, though not exclusively, intended for public, business or association leaders and executives with at least ten years’ experience in activities related to the domains covered by teaching and research at ISGG : international relations, governance, diplomacy, peace and security, public health, entrepreneurship and business administration, development, welfare, sports, press, and others.

     

It is meant to enable those whose career track record includes appreciable achievements in such activities to obtain either a Bachelor’s or (for those who already hold an undergraduate diploma) a Master’s degree through such a validation process, on the basis of a dossier to be publicly defended before an examining committee composed of one ISGG professor and two outside experts.

     

The dossier submitted for validation purposes should be some 50 pages in length. It should detail the candidate’s professional record ; dwell on ascertainable, duly documented, strengths in it ; insist on the lessons the applicant thinks can be drawn from her or his achievements in terms of action and practical or scholarly knowledge when it comes to the above-mentioned domains ; finally, it should elaborate upon the personal project behind his or her quest of a degree obtained through this validation process.

     

For any additional information, prospective candidates should establish e-mail contact with the Chancellor’s Office using the school’s address: chancellor@isgg.ch