The University of Salzburg offers together with its partner universities the new joint Master in Political Science – Integration and Governance (PoSIG)!

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The course program for the academic year 2025/26 is available  here.

This Master programme gives you the unique opportunity to study in Austria, Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, North Makedonia, Kosovo Kosovo, Georgia and Armenia. This 2 year program targets all international students who have completed their Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and who have a certain level of methodology education.

It offers modules in all areas of Political Science:

• Comparative Politics
• European Integration
• International Relations Public
• Administration and Policy
• Political Theory

Students are free to choose some PoSIG partner universities who offer courses of the first program year and can choose another partner for the second year program. They have to register at least at two different institutions, all attended universities give the Joint MA degree to the student. The program encourages active learning students who can design their individual qualification & mobility strategy within the PoSIG curriculum.

These are:

• Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje (UKIM)
• European University of Tirana (UET)
• University of Tirana (UTIR)
• University of Business and Technology (UBT) – Pristina
• University of Sarajevo (UNSA)
• Sarajevo School of Science Technology (SSST)
• University of Trieste (UNITS)
• University of Prishtina (UP)
• Tbilisi State University (TSU)
• Georgian Institute for Public Affairs (GIPA)
• Yerevan State University (YSU)
• Eurasia International University (EIU)

The joint degree is awarded by all universities attended by a student during the two-year study programme.

For more detailed information please have a look in our folder.

The call 2025 will be available from 15 February until 15 April 2026 at our application platform:  https://www.posig.uet.edu.al.

Based on the Erasmus+ KA 107 Call 2021/22/23 following 9.5 month PoSIG student grants are available per academic year in 2026/27. Students from our partner universities listed here are eligible to apply. The application has to be made at the partner university:

• Albania –University of Tirana, European University of Tirana
• Armenia – American University of Armenia, Yerevan State University
• BiH  – University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo School for Science and Technology
• Georgia – Batumi State University, Illia State University, Tbilisi State University, GIPA
• Kosovo – University of Prishtina, UBT
• Lebanon  – Notre Dame University
• Montenegro – University of Montenegro, University Donja Gorica
• Azerbaijan – ADA
• Ukraine – Karazin Kharkiv University, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, National University of „Kyiv-Mohyla Academy“ (KA 171 Partner)

Based on the Erasmus+ KA 107 Call 2023/2024 PoSIG student grants are available for 2026/27. Students from our partner universities in Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzogevina, Georgia, Israel, Kosovo,  Lebanon, Montenegro, Ukraine and other neighbouring regions of the EU.

Details regarding the application process, course programme etc. can be found on our webseite  posig.info and under:  www.facebook.com/posig.

Following information from the Austrian National Agency for Erasmus+ program, University of Salzburg will refrain from awarding E+ grants to PoSIG (and Joint Master Students in general) in the first term of their studies. This starts to count for the cohort 2026/27.

Information on Erasmus+ Grants:

• General Erasmus+ rule: a student can go on Erasmus+ exchange for the duration of 12 months per study cycle. This means during the  MA, a students can be awarded a grant for 12 months all together, independent from a possible Erasmus+ mobility during your BA studies. The 12 months do not need to directly succeed each other: it does not matter, whether the student receives them in the middle or in the end of your studies. The student is free to chose.
• Within a Joint Masters Program it is possible to award an incoming (KA171) grant, preceded by an outgoing (KA131) grant in the following term. Be aware of nomination deadlines of Universities.
• Be aware of possible national or institutional preconditions for nomination (eg deadlines,…), admission (eg national exams,…) or grant assignment (eg maximum duration,…).
• No Grant can be awarded for the first term.
• From the second term on, the preceding term defines the kind of grant that can be awarded:
  • A student, who spends term1 at a University in a KA171 country, deciding to go to a University at a KA131 country in term2 can be awarded a KA171 incoming grant. (for instance: term1 at SSST, term2 at Univ of Trieste)
  • A student, who spends term1 at a University in a KA131 country, deciding to go to a University at a KA171 country in term2 can be awarded a KA171 outgoing grant. (for instance: term1 at UKIM, term2 at UniTir)
  • A student, who spends term1 at a University in a KA131 country, deciding to go to a University at a KA131 country in term2 can be awarded a KA131 outgoing grant. (for instance: term1 Univ of Sbg, term2 at UNITS)
• All this counts for term 2 to term 3 and for term 3 to term 4 as well.
• Preconditions (KA171 budgets and bilateral agreements) must be monitored by International Offices.
• Individual support rates KA171 per months from Call 2024 on: outgoing € 700,-, incoming € 900,-; travel lump sums according to distance band of effective destination;
• Individual support rates from KA131 to KA131: to North Macedonia € 470,-; to Italy € 520,-; supposedly to Salzburg € 520,-

Further Information about Political Science at PLUS:

• Academic profile: https://www.plus.ac.at/political-science/department/?lang=en
• Registration of international students: https://www.plus.ac.at/international-relations-department/international-relations-office/service-for-students/?lang=en
• Coordinator: 
• Quality Assurance: 

Co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, this project has been funded with support by the European Commission.