Social Protection (M.Sc.)
Newsletter: MSc Social Protection Insights
Welcome to our Bimonthly Newsletter!
Our newsletter is published on the first of every second month and features:
- Events and updates from the field of social protection
- Highlights about our amazing students, alumni, and lecturers
- Overview of program modules
- Publications and resources
The purpose of our newsletter is to feature the great work being accomplished all over the world in the field of social protection in one place, and to highlight how our students and lecturers are able to connect what is discussed in the classroom to the real working world.
Past Newsletters

We are excited to share the twelfth edition of our MSc Social Protection Insights newsletter. With applications for Winter Semester 2025 now open, we reflect on key highlights, including the Third International Alumni Seminar at Hochschule Sankt Augustin, a study visit to the European Union, and the successful graduation of our alumni. Find more information and additional resources in the newsletter!

Sharing our eleventh edition of our "MSc Social Protection Insights" newsletter with plenty of events and reading recommendations! As we welcome Batch 2024, we reflect on a successful alumni seminar in Ghana, celebrate a new honorary professor, and announce the appointment of our academic head as one of IZNE's directors!

Sharing our tenth edition of our "MSc Social Protection Insights" newsletter with some interesting resources for your summer break! As our current students are about to wrap up their second semester and master's theses, applications for the DAAD Helmut-Schmidt-Programme scholarship for our 2025 intake are still possible!

Can you believe it is already our ninth newsletter? June marks the end of the winter 2024 application window, and the beginning of the DAAD scholarship application window for winter 2025.

Our April newsletter provides a summary from our programme coordinator, Darleen Kolbe, who attended the 68th session of the UN Women Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68).

The March 2024 newsletter covers a major birthday and provides an extensive list of social protection publications and resources.

The February 2024 newsletter reminds readers of the upcoming events hosted by M.Sc. Social Protection. Plus, we celebrate Markus Loewe being made an honorary professor.

The December 2023 newsletter is all about applications! Applications are officially open and we hope to see you on our Virtual Open Day on December 16.

For our November 2023 newsletter, we share our experience on our annual trip to Brussels, and celebrate the graduation of over 40 M.Sc. students.

The 3rd edition of our newsletter is from October 2023 and features an alumni winning the department's Best Thesis Award, plus we officially welcome our new 2023 batch of students to H-BRS.

Check out our September 2023 edition. In our 2nd newsletter, we feature an alumni seminar in Tanzania and a recently published framework from two of our alumni.

For our August 2023 newsletter, we introduce some amazing resources like the DAAD scholarship we offer and the Social Protection Handbook.
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