The EMP delivers a professional education that combines academic excellence and real-world experience and aims at broadening our understanding of development and the role that microfinance can play in fighting poverty.

Topics covered by the European Microfinance Programme :

• General management and governance of microfinance institutions;
• Development issues and their link to microfinance;
• Tools for financial analysis;
• Contracting and microfinance products;
• Macroeconomics and regulation of microfinance;
• Organizations and markets structures;
• Rural and urban microfinance issues.

Accessibility through three different Master programmes :

• A one-year programme: European Master in Microfinance (Master Complémentaire Conjoint en Microfinance, Académie Universitaire Wallonie-Bruxelles): for candidates having already obtained a Masters Degree.
  
  
• Second year of the Master in International Development Studies (Wageningen Universiteit)
  
  
• Second year of the Master en Développement durable applique (Université Paris Dauphine)
  
  However, admissions are centralised (see Admission and application).