The Masters Course proposed has a distinctive European added value in several aspects: Network industries and infrastructures are currently being liberalised across Europe, based on common directives from the European Commission. Therefore, their regulation and management cannot be dealt from a national but with a European approach. This is the approach proposed by the programme. In addition, the programme puts together relevant European Universities in order to provide a global, trans-national and between industrial sectors approach to network industries regulation and management. The historical experience and background of different European countries towards the regulation and management of these sectors provides a vast richness to the contents of the programme, which may be used by third-country students for their own countries. Indeed, European know-how on economic regulation and management of network industries is significant, as shown by the constant transfer of knowledge from European firms and institutions to third countries, and its leadership in these issues compared to the US. As mentioned before, the interest of this Masters course for Europe will be proven by the collaboration with the School of Regulation - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Florence (Italy), which willorganize an annual seminar in which students will present the results from their Masters dissertation.
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