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ISS commemorates the UN's Orange the World campaign (27 November-10 December), an initiative bring attention to violence against women and girls

Our Academic Teams foster and showcase the role of ISS in specific broader academic discourses on issues such as economics, political ecology and social justice

Multidisciplinary, socially engaged research projects with critical approach to policy responses that are formulated to social, economic and political issues.

ISS is internationally recognised as a top institute for development studies, attracting students from over 35–40 countries each year.

Our training programmes are for professionals who want to address pressing development challenges such as poverty, inequality, migration, conflict and ecology

Explore the top 10 reasons to choose ISS for your master's studies

Zhiqi Xu will defend her thesis examining how stakeholders exercise their agency under China's poverty alleviation and rural development governance

In our onboarding sessions we like to welcome all new PhD candidates to the Erasmus Graduate School of Social Sciences and the Humanities (EGSH).

Through our multi- and interdisciplinary global health research we seek to reduce the gross inequities in health between and within countries.

Meet the researchers of the Rotterdam Global Health Initiative (RGHI): experts in global health and sustainable solutions.