While Studying

Internships

AFEPA Master’s students may earn 6 to 15 ECTS credits for an approved internship during their second year of study.

AFEPA Summer Schools

At the end of each academic year, all students meet and attend a one week course at the AFEPA summer school.

Master's Thesis

At the end of the AFEPA programme, a Master's thesis accounting for 30 ECTS has to be submitted.

AFEPA Representatives

Each year, two student representatives are elected by the students to represent the interests of all AFEPA students.

Student Agreement

All AFEPA students sign an agreement with the AFEPA programme coordinator. The agreement details their rights and duties as students in the programme.

AFEPA Handbook

In the AFEPA Handbook you can find detailed information on the AFEPA Master’s Programme and on the main academic partner universities.

AFEPA Handbook 2024-25

Internships

AFEPA Master’s students have the possibility to earn 6 to 15 ECTS credits for an approved internship during their second year of study. If appropriate, the internship can also be developed in a Master’s thesis subject to consultation with the main Master’s thesis supervisor of the student.

Linda Pena Caviativa (2021-23) completed her internships at the OECD in summer 2023

"I had the invaluable chance to immerse myself in three internships during my last semester. My first internship started at Hemp Cooperative Ireland working on market analysis within the hemp industry. My next milestone was at the Future of Protein Production as Industry Research, and at the pinnacle of my journey at the OECD working at the Trade and Agriculture Directorate on agri-environmental indicators. The culmination of these three internships resulted in an intense yet profoundly rewarding semester."

Fabian Grützner (2022-24) completed his internship at the European Commission in summer 2024

"The flexible AFEPA curriculum gave me the opportunity to intern at the European Commission through the Blue Book Traineeship Programme in the Directorate General for Trade. My unit focused on negotiating, implementing, and monitoring trade agreements with ACP (Africa, Caribbean and Pacific) countries to support their development. This experience helped me apply and expand my theoretical knowledge, gain valuable insights into EU policymaking and meet inspiring people, both at work and in cosmopolitan Brussels."

AFEPA Summer Schools

The AFEPA summer school is one of the highlights of the programme. Every year in July/August all participants in the AFEPA programme meet at one of the partner universities for the AFEPA summer school. For all students this is the only occasion to meet all other students and academics involved in the programme.

One week of the summer school is devoted to a 5 day workshop on a particular topic of agricultural economics. Throughout the summer school, social events and field trips are organized for the participants.

AFEPA Summer School 2024

Introduction to Probabilistic Programming, Bonn, Germany
(July 22 - 24, 2024)

with Thomas Heckelei (University of Bonn, Germany) and Alessandro Varacca (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy)

Programme 2024

AFEPA Summer School 2023

Agent-Based Modelling in Piacenza, Italy (July 28 - August 4, 2023)

with Franziska Appel (Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Germany)

Programme 2023

AFEPA Summer School 2022

Introduction to Experimental Economics in Bonn, Germany (August 5-12, 2022) with Frédéric Gaspart (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium) and Jens Rommel (SLU, Uppsala, Sweden)

Programme 2022

AFEPA Summer School 2021

Learning policy impacts from data: applied econometrics of causal inference, online (August 6-13, 2021) with Benjamin Crost (University of Calgary, Canada)

Programme 2021

AFEPA Summer School 2020

Machine Learning techniques in agricultural, food and environmental policy analysis, online (July 13-17, 2020) with Kathy Baylis (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA), Thomas Heckelei (University of Bonn, Germany) and Hugo Storm (University of Bonn, Germany)

Programme 2020

AFEPA Summer School 2019

Behavioural Economics in Uppsala, Sweden (August 26-30, 2019) with
Prof. Helena Hansson (SLU, Sweden), Dr. Jens Rommel (SLU, Sweden) and Dr. Micaela Kulesz (SLU, Sweden)

Programme 2019

Master's Thesis

The Master’s thesis shall draw on and deepen subjects covered in the courses of the AFEPA programme. It has to be submitted and presented by the student at the end of the second year of studies at the annual AFEPA summer school.

Master's Thesis Guidelines

Master's Thesis completed

AFEPA Student Representatives

At the beginning of the academic year, the new intake elects two student representatives. They represent the view of the students and let the management board of AFEPA know what challenges students experience and what can be improved in the master programme.