Master in Labour sciences

Students in this programme must pick one of the following specialisations:

Specialisations on the Brussels campus:

• Labour organisation and administration (daytime classes) – This specialisation is directly linked to labour issues in the fields of law, sociology, psychology, and economics.

• Managing training and work-to-school transitions (evening/weekend classes) – This specialisation targets unemployment and greater labour mobility, where activities in the field of employability have greatly developed. The specific features of the skills involved in project design and management are a major subject in the programme. Company modernisation, in particular from an organisational perspective, has placed the focus on the need to provide training on strategies for managing companies.

• The specialisation on Gender and inequality, offered in part as evening/weekend classes, aims to train gender equality specialists by giving them the tools, knowledge, and awareness required to support progress in the field of gender equality and the fight against discrimination. This specialisation is closely connected to the European EGALES network (Etudes Genre et Actions Liées à l’Égalité dans la Société), whose members are the Lumière University Lyon 2 (network coordinator), the University of York (United Kingdom), the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain), the Åbo Akedemi University (Finland), the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), the University of Bucharest (Romania), and the University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès (France). The network offers opportunities for Erasmus exchanges for students taking who pick this specialisation. The EGALES Master website is: http://egales.univ-lyon2.fr/fr/

Evenings/weekend classes on the Charleroi campus:

Two branches of Master programme are available:

o Management and administration in the non-market sector, which provides training related to the non-commercial sector. This programme is intended for students who are called upon to work in positions of responsibility in public services, as well as for those interested in designing, developing, and managing service projects within non-profit organisations (associations, cooperatives, foundations, sheltered companies, NGOs, etc.).

o Social development, which is related to the ongoing promotion of professions associated with social work. The programme trains designers, managers, trainers, and supervisors of social projects in the public and private sectors as well as in NGOs. It provides graduates with a theoretical basis for analysing major challenges we are now facing: employment, working conditions, social exclusion, finding a job, local development.