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Master's Degree in Local Government and Innovative Public Policies

  • New offer
Modality
In-person
Branch of knowledge
Social and Legal Sciences
Ambit of knowledge
Ciencias sociales, trabajo social, relaciones laborales y recursos humanos, sociología, ciencia polí
School(s)
Faculty of Political and Social Sciences
Avda. Dr. Ángel Echeverri, s/n, 15782
Santiago de Compostela
881815125 (Conserxaría)
881815128 (Decanato)
politicas.decanato@usc.gal
Campus
Santiago de Compostela
Coordinator
Natalia Paleo Mosquera
Contact
natalia.paleo.mosquera@usc.es

The Master's Degree in Local Government and Innovative Public Policies offers specialized training in governance and management of local administrations. The program is aimed at strengthening the skills of those who aspire to work in this public area, of those who lead and manage it and of those who, from the private sector, offer support services to local governments.

  • Duration: 1 academic year
    RUCT code: 4318112
    ECTS Number: 60
    Seats number: 25

    Dean or center director:
    MARTA IRENE LOIS GONZALEZ

    Title coordinator:
    Natalia Paleo Mosquera
    natalia.paleo.mosquera@usc.es

    Use languages:
    Spanish, Galician

    Coordinator university:
    University of Santiago de Compostela

    Partaker universities:
    University of Santiago de Compostela

    Xunta de Galicia title implantation authorization date:
    Orde do 27/07/2022 (DOG do 10/08/2022)

    BOE publication date:
    BOE do 7/04/2023

    Last accreditation date:
    27/06/2022

    In the complex context of modern social demands, the processes of transformation of public administrations, the implementation of new technologies and the interactions among multiple stakeholders are considered key issues. The objective is to provide students with advanced and innovative competencies for government, management processes, and the development of public policies with a special focus on the local level.

    From a multidisciplinary perspective, the design of this degree deals with key training needs, such as the application of new technologies to the delivery of public services, innovation in budget management, development of leadership skills, strategic planning, project management, fundraising, new advances on local policies, gender mainstreaming, management of multilevel governance, and democratic participation and innovation. The objective is to achieve a training experience which provides tools to transform local entities and have a positive impact on communities.

  • Completion requirements:

    Compulsory: 24
    Optional: 12
    External internships 9
    Master’s Final Project: 6
    Total: 60

    The Master's Degree has two orientations:

    - Professional orientation: Specialized Local Governments,Public Policies, Innovation and Sustainable territories.
    - Research orientation: Local Institutions and Policies.

    Students must take one orientation and can complete both of them, taking the corresponding linked subjects. The Master’s Thesis of the professional orientation must have an applied character, the research orientation one must have a a research work approach.

  • The objective of this postgraduate degree is to deepen in a new conception of local government and to offer innovative tools to remodel its organization and enhance its efficient management, to bring institutions closer to citizens and to lay the foundations for new networks of collaboration and institutional integration.

  • Mobility

    Student mobility is regulated through the “Regulation of inter-university exchange.” Exchange programs are managed through the International Relations Office, such as national exchange programs (SICUE) as well as Europeans (ERASMUS) and from outside the European Union (exchanges with Latin American countries or English-speaking countries):

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    Internships

    External internships promote the professional development and employability of future graduates. For this, the programme allows to test the acquired knowledge and skills in the degree, as well as to discover new possibilities of application. In addition, internships may promote professional opportunities and diffuse the competency profile of graduates among the different collaborating entities. The completion of internships is supervised by an academic tutor chosen among the teaching staff teaching in the Master's Degree and an external tutor, linked to the collaborating entity.
    The Academic Committee will set the mechanism in order to grant external internships, establishing relations with other entities. In fact, the offering faculty already counts with several agreements with public Administrations, companies and NGOs that are updated periodically.
    For the students that take the researcher orientation, apart from the access to external internships vacancies of the general offer, agreements with research centers and groups will be available.

  • The Master’s thesis is an original,autonomous and individual contribution by each student, under the supervision of a tutor, which consists in the elaboration of a project in which the acquired knowledge and skills during the studies done in the Master’s Degree are accredited. It will include, at least, tasks of bibliographic search and review, reading and integration of information, elaboration of relevant information, writing and presentation.

  • The Master's Degree in Local Government and Innovative Public Policies has a large and experienced faculty to teach the subjects contained in the curriculum, involving five areas and four departments.

    All the departments involved have large staffs, mostly composed of professors with doctoral degrees and extensive training experience adapted to the transmission of the competencies comprised in the curriculum. Professional staff with experience in this sector may also collaborate with the Master's degree.

The contents of this page were updated on 07.01.2025.