Criteria and Requirements

Our Applicants

While the program is open to applicants from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, knowledge, and experience, a suitable applicant typically has excellent academic results in relevant degree (e.g., development studies, economics, geography, international relations, and sociology) and has to prove the following:

• at least 60 ECTS (or equivalent) in economics during their bachelor’s degree,
• applicants with a German bachelor’s degree will prove a minimum average grade of 2.5/5 in the German grading system over their undergraduate studies,
• applicants with a French bachelor’s degree will prove a minimum average grade of 13/20 in the French grading system over their undergraduate studies,
• other applicants will prove the equivalent of the above grades or the equivalent of the American GPA 2.7/4 over their undergraduate studies.

Also, the applicants have to show a strong interest in international development with aspirations to work in the area related to development policy and a very good command of English (C1). 

As our program is highly competitive (we receive several hundred applications every year), please consider whether your profile fits the above characteristics before you apply. The Admission Committee looks at the overall profile of the applicant, so a degree in a less relevant discipline may be good enough if you have excelled in development courses and your extra-curricular activities or working experience are clearly linked to development.

Application

The call for the 2025–2027 intake applications is open from 1^st November 2024 until 31^st January 2025 for the potential unguaranteed EMJM scholarship applicants and 30^th April 2025 (23:59 CET) for self-funded applicants. 

The administration fee is 790 CZK (approx. 31 €), paid by card. There is not a possibility of a waiver, please do not contact us in this matter. 

To apply, fill out the Online Application Form and attach the below-mentioned attachments. You will get to Creating Applications, where you choose:

• Catalog of study programs
  
• Type of Study: Follow-up Master´s
• Faculty: Faculty of Science
• Form: Full-time
• Language of instruction: English
• Study program: Global Development Policy

Do not forget to attach the documents listed in the Criteria and Requirements section in the last step of the application. You have to upload all the mentioned documents. Otherwise, your application will not be considered for the admission process.

Do not send us the printed version of the application, as this is not required for the GLODEP program.

The application is complete when all mandatory fields are filled in and all required attachments (see below) are attached. You can save your application before submitting it. Please note, that after clicking on the submit button, it will no longer be possible to change the uploaded documents.

We recommend you avoid last-minute applications due to the risk of an online application system slowdown.

Attachments to application

All attached documents must be in pdf or jpg form. All must be in English (certified translation or confirmation issued by an official authority), except diploma (1). Five documents (see numbers 1–5 below) are required for the program application, and one additional document (see numbers 6 below) is required for the potential unguaranteed EMJM scholarship application.

• Application for the program is considered incomplete if it does not include any of the six documents required for the program (or if any of the documents are inadequate and not possible to be read). In this case, the application is ineligible for the program, and the applicant is informed about non-admission to the program. All applications ineligible for the program are also automatically ineligible for the potential unguaranteed EMJM scholarship.
• If the application is incomplete only in terms of the Proof of Nationality (6) that is required for the potential unguaranteed EMJM scholarship (missing or inadequate), the application is eligible for the program but ineligible for the EMJM scholarship. In this case, the application will be assessed by the Admission Committee for the program, but the applicant cannot be offered the potential unguaranteed EMJM scholarship if admitted to the program.

In some exceptional cases (stated in the Criteria and Requirement), you can use the template for the document “Declaration of Honour” – you are declaring in this document (under your Honour) that – for example –  you are an English native speaker and/or explaining the reasons, why you can’t have your passport valid minimum until June 2027.

Declaration of Honour – template

All applicants are required to attach the five following documents:

Applicants that apply for the potential unguaranteed EMJM scholarship (deadline 31^st January 2025) are also required to attach this additional document:

Selection Criteria

Admission to the program
Eligible applications for the program are assessed (i.e. entrance examination) based on academic merit (the relevance of the degree/courses studied and overall grades), motivation, and curriculum vitae. Each of the three Consortium Institutions makes an assessment, classifying applications into five categories: outstanding (5 points), excellent (4 points), very good (3 points), good (2 points), and poor (1 point). Applications are ranked in descending order based on the total number of points acquired from the three assessments (max. 15). Admission to the program will be offered to the applicants with the highest number of total points.

Please note that ineligible applications will not be assessed. 

The potential unguaranteed EMJM scholarship award
The top-ranking applicants from those offered admission to the program will be invited for an online interview to compete for a potential unguaranteed EMJM Scholarship. The interview aims to consider the applicant’s overall profile, including academic merit, motivation, language skills, and knowledge of economic concepts.

Please note:

• The applicants who have already received any other Erasmus Mundus scholarship (for the full tertiary program – EMMC, EMJMD) before are not eligible for the potential unguaranteed EMJM Scholarship.

The students have to be aware of the fact that their personal data will be sent to the EACEA in case of awarding the potential unguaranteed EMJM scholarship and may be used by other bodies involved in the management of EMJM acting as stakeholders of the programme (i.e. European Commission, Erasmus+ National Offices, EU Delegations, Erasmus Mundus Students and Alumni Association) for facilitating the students’ access to the joint programme.

Admission Calendar 

November 2024                     call for applications opened
31^st January 2025                   call for program applications with the potential unguaranteed EMJM scholarship closed (23:59 CET)
30^th April 2025                        call for program applications without scholarship (self-funded) closed (23:59 CET)

1^st round of the selection process
(Applications to the program and the potential unguaranteed EMJM scholarship submitted from November 2024 till  31^st January 2025)

February 2025

• Non-eligible applicants will be informed via e-mail mentioned in the application and be able to appeal against the decision.

March 2025 – 2^nd half

• Eligible applicants will be informed about (non)admission to the program via the Online Application Form (PORTAL – Palacký University Olomouc) 
• The best-ranked applicants (admitted to the program) will be invited (via email mentioned in the application) for the online interview to compete for the potential unguaranteed EMJM scholarship.

April 2025

• Online interviews to compete for the potential unguaranteed EMJM scholarship
• The best-ranked applicants who participated in the online interview will be informed (via email mentioned in the application) about the results on the possible awarding of potential unguaranteed EMJM scholarship
• The admission results for all applicants to the program (admission/non-admission to the program) will be published in the Online Application Form (PORTAL – Palacký University Olomouc).

July 2025

• expected results from EACEA on awarding/non-awarding of the grant for the GLODEP program allowing/non-allowing for the potential unguaranteed EMJM scholarship 

August – September 2025

• applicants conditionally selected for the potential unguaranteed EMJM scholarship will be informed about the results by email
• conditionally admitted students are obliged to have completed the diploma certification and visa procedures

2^nd round of the selection process
(Applications to the program on self-funded bases submitted till 30^th April 2025)

All phases of the admission process will be done in a few shorter rounds. No scholarships will be awarded.

Tuition fee payment
30^th September 2025                Payment of tuition fee of 4,200 € by self-funded students

mid September 2025               Start of the program

Please note that the admission calendar is subject to change.

Appeals

There are different types of appeal procedures related to the admission process:

 Appeal against the decision on the ineligibility of the application

1. All applicants with an ineligible application (either for the program or for the scholarship) receive an email with the explication of the reasons for ineligibility.
2. If the applicant has serious reasons to believe that a mistake has been made in the assessment of the eligibility of his/her application, s/he can ask for a reassessment of the application by sending an email to admission@glodep.eu by the indicated date. In the email, the applicant is asked to clearly indicate the reasons for the appeal. The Admission Committee will review the case and will inform the applicant about the final decision by email.

 Appeal against the decision on non-admission to the program

1. All applicants are informed about their admission/non-admission to the program. The electronic letter (signed by the Dean of the Faculty of Science, Palacky University Olomouc) is uploaded to the applicant´s folder in the electronic application system and the applicant is informed by email.
2. In accordance with the provisions of Section 50, Article 6 of the Higher Education Act (Czech Republic), the applicant may appeal within 30 days of this notification. Applicants who want to appeal should send a letter (paper letter with your signature, not an electronic copy) stating the reason for the appeal to Mrs. Marie Raková, Palacký University Olomouc, Faculty of Science, 17. listopadu 12, 771 46 Olomouc, Czech Republic, or electronically to marie.rakova@upol.cz

Appeal against the decision of non-recommendation for the potential unguaranteed EMJM scholarship

1. All applicants who have been admitted to the program are informed whether they have been recommended/not recommended for the potential unguaranteed EMJM scholarship. The electronic letter (signed by the GLODEP Consortium Director) is sent to the applicant by email. 
2. Applicants who have been admitted to the program participated in the online interview and not recommended for the potential unguaranteed EMJM scholarship may appeal against this decision by sending an email with the reasons for the appeal to admission@glodep.eu by the indicated date.

Questions

Please contact the helpdesk for technical inquiries concerning the Online Application Form (anonymous request – category – e-application – technical questions or payments, change of date, etc.)

For specific GLODEP program-related questions, contact us at study@glodep.eu