MA in human rights: Padua Double Degree students in Lyon

Since 2018-19, the University of Padua has launched a double degree course with the Catholic University of Lyon (UCLy), which allows students from the two universities (a maximum of five per year) to carry out one year of courses at the partner university and acquire, after defending the thesis, two second-cycle university degrees: the Italian one in Human Rights and Multi-level Governance, awarded by the University of Padua, and the French Master 2 diploma in Pratiques du droit international et régional des Droits de l'Homme, issued by the Catholic University of Lyon and the University of Grenoble-Alpes. In 2024-25, four students from Padua are participating in the exchange: Giulia Fabrizi, Clara Pescatori, Sara Speranza, and Francesca Vazzoler. Three UCLy students are in Padua: Manon Deleron, Mathilde Laurent, and Mayliana Fertil. On 14 November 2024, in Lyon, the Double Degree coordinator, Prof. Paolo De Stefani, met the Italian students and their colleague Malika Serdaliyeva, who is spending one semester at UCLy as part of an Erasmus+ exchange. 

The Master 2 in Pratiques du droit international et régional des Droits de l'Homme is offered by the Institut des droits de l'homme - Lyon, created in 1985 within UCLy to provide technical and specialized training in the field of human rights.

Master's students in Human Rights and Multi-level Governance, in addition to Lyon, can also gain a double degree (Italian and Polish) at the University of Wroclaw (Wroclaw), with which the collaboration has existed since 2014-15.