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ISS Education Fairs 2025

ISS will be participating in multiple education fairs this year. You are welcome to register and join any of the fairs.

Register for ISS Education Fairs 2025

MA in Development Studies

Mundus MA in Public Policy

ISS PhD programme

ISS Research

Visit the Master Open Day on Saturday 22 March 2025!

Get to know Erasmus University Rotterdam during the fully hybrid Master Open Day!

ISS scholarship finder

Our country-based scholarship finder can help you identify funding opporutinites for your MA at ISS

ISS podcasts

Stories and opinions on development, climate change, migration, gender, conflict on ISS' podcasts

Studying Childhood and Youth: Bridging social studies and psychology
Masterclass by Wenty Marina Minza and Roy Huijsmans for PhD researchers at Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia
- Wednesday 12 Mar 2025
- General
Corporate digitalization in agriculture and the labour impacts in Dutch agriculture
Dr Oane Visser gave two talks about digital technologies and agriculture at the Paris inter-university laboratory for social and spatial changes
- Monday 10 Mar 2025
- Opinion
Research Meets Policy: Sustaining the Dialogue on Migration
Join ISS researchers at this conference acilitating conversations on key migration issues among scholars, policymakers and other migration professionals
- Tuesday 4 Mar 2025
- General

Looking inside the Dutch greenhouse
Join us for a look inside the Dutch greenhouse and an interogation of actual working and living conditions of (migrant) farmworkers in Dutch agriculture
- Monday 17 Mar 2025, 17:30 - 19:30
- General
Conference on global financial inclusion
Oikocredit is celebrating its 50th anniversary. It is time to take stock and explore promising directions for sustainable impact and social change.
- Thursday 20 Mar 2025, 13:00 - 17:00
- Conference
PhD defence by Rafael Rosa Cedro
In his PhD thesis, Rafael Rosa Cedro analyses economic development in Brazil from 2001-14 and consider its influence on policy and strategy-making
- Friday 21 Mar 2025, 15:00 - 16:30
- PhD defence