Objectives

Nowadays, the world of work and employment relations is changing quickly under multiple pressures : globalisation, fast-moving information technologies, post-industrial economies, new organisational forms, and of course, European integration. In Europe, the quality of jobs and social cohesion are both objectives and outcomes of the knowledge-based society promoted by the Lisbon strategy. Understanding current changes in the world of work and employment, and being able to monitor and (...)

History

The MEST programme is running since September 1993. The major steps in its creation and development were:
1988-1989 : Université catholique de Louvain (Belgique), Warwick University (UK) and Université des Sciences sociales de Toulouse 1 (France) are the three founders members who initialize the idea of bringing several universities together to create a European inter-university network to provide Masters-level education in work and employment studies 1989-1992 : development. A (...)

Commitment

Specialists in charge of employment and work have to confront two fundamental trends: a profound transformation of work and employment relations; and increasing interdependency across borders.
The MEST (European Masters in Employment Studies) programme is a response to this increasing need to take European and cross-national interdependencies and their consequences for work and employment into consideration.
Initiated in 1988, it educates future specialists in work, employment (...)