The purpose of this postgraduate MSc in Resilience Economy program is to create experts in the field of resilience economy, socio-economic tolerance experts, Conflicts problem solvers with socioeconomic background, community development experts, social innovation entrepreneurs, resilience engineers, community coexistence planners, and many other potential roles related to resilience, tolerance, coexistence and the economic development or stability. Besides, this program targets to create multi-disciplinary holistic thinkers that would use the model shown in Figure (1) through lifelong learning practices to build the resilience economists mindsets, which can spot challenges or crisis ahead and turn them into opportunities and thus create more independent resilient communities.
The program combines the concepts of Resilience with Inspiration/Youth/Aging and Future Foresight Economies, in the modules and the courses Intended Learning Outcome to build the “Resilient Economy” leadership. Along with research and development done before, during and after the ‘Field Projects’ the program graduates are expected to inspire their communities and organisations in the techniques and approaches of resilience that are going to bring a clear positive outcome. This program is unique, since it would produce graduates that competent to be: Resilience Leaders, Socio-Economy Experts, Change Facilitators, Conflict and Complexity Problem Solvers, Social Innovation and similar titles that are highly needed by all the communities in the world that need more competency of risks mitigation and communities stability experts.
This extensive program shows a good connection with the reality of the business world and ensures the best interaction between students, lecturers, and professionals in a spirit of participative learning and teamwork. The case studies and deep dialogue techniques would be up-to-date, which shall help to develop new insights for business owners and future economy leaders. The program graduates would not only be expected to have high employability possibilities, but even be a source for creating socio-economy influencers.
The program would address the great shortage of experts relevant to the United Nations Sustain Development Goals (UN-SDGs) Experts, especially in issues as poverty, youth, unemployment, migration, women, child labour, families’ instabilities, etc.
The case studies and the deep dialogue embedded in the program courses will be up-to-date and will help the students to develop new insights for social business and to be future socioeconomic leaders. Not only are program graduates expected to have high employment potential, but to be in any or all the new fields of the economy as sharing-economy, collaborative-economy, behavioural-economy and inspiration-economy. All these economies have great influences on socioeconomic development, especially in developing countries.