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It will be possible to begin or end the programme of the CONCIT- EJM study at any of the participating higher education institutions.

Students who successfully study for the total of the established credits are awarded a Master’s degree with international legal recognition assured to the diploma, as established by the Diploma Supplement tool of the Lisbon Recognition Convention. The diplomas are likely to be delivered each academic year, at the official opening session of the annual CONCIT EJM, to the students that have completed the full programme of studies (courses + thesis) during the previous academic year.

According to the administrative and academic rules in each partner EHEI, a joint degree or a double degree will be delivered.

In the future website of the Master’s course (www.emica.aca.eu) all the information available about the programme, the European Higher Education Institutions (EHEIs) partners, the application form, contacts, etc., can be found.

In brief, there are some issues concerning EMICA that are still under discussion on TG#7, but the above ideas are already been set up and further developments must be achieved on the stage of the creation and implementation of EMICA.

During these two years and a half that we’ve been hardly working in TG#7 with the goal to set up a proposal for a Joint European Masters in Consumer Citizenship, as assigned by the CCN2 programme. The knowledge and experience of consumer citizenship education is very different from one partner to another, reflecting the stage of development of this scientific area of study in their universities, countries and even in their lives.

Enthusiastic participation however is a common feature of all members of TG#7 and at the end of our task we feel that we’ve achieved our goal. Now is time to deliver the proposal for EMICA to our institutions and hope that they will take good care of it.

We’re aware of the huge difficulties to implement such an ambitious project in the HEI’s of ours. Increasing attention required by sustainable development and the multiple initiatives currently running at different levels, with the United Nations leading the most important one. As stated in the document “Here and Now – Education for sustainable consumption” ²⁵, we fully agree that “education for sustainable consumption is founded on the concept of sustainable consumption [consumer citizenship, upon CCN concept] which is based upon the principles of sustainable development”.

With the process of creation and implementation of EMICA we’re are not only progressing in curriculum development in our HEI’s by enlarging the scientific areas of study but also participating in two major goals of our societies of today: 1. the construction of a new Europe, specially in the field of the Higher Education Area and 2. the contribution for a sustainable development of our world.