European MSc in Occupational Therapy

What to expect

• Small class sizes
• Interaction with an internationally renowned faculty and like-minded professionals
• High quality education of five participating universities, some of which are ranked in the top of Europe
• An international focus on occupational therapy
• Occupational therapy and occupational science from a cross-cultural point of view
• The development of your analytical and clinical reasoning skills
• The opportunity to grow professionally and as a researcher
• The opportunity to visit several exciting European towns and cities
• New career perspectives both in your home country and abroad.

In 2023 the European MSc in Occupational therapy received the Certificate of Excellence for Quality in Programme Internationalisation according to the standards of the European Consortium for Accreditation in Higher Education. 

Course structure 

The programme starts in September and lasts 24 months. Hours of study per week will be approximately 28 and there will be six modules including a thesis.*

Each module consists of 280 study hours and has three phases at one of the participating universities.

Each phase consists of preparatory work in your own country (56 hours), class work in the country hosting the module (10 working days / 80 hours), and independent study in your own country (200 hours).

In your home country you work under supervision on your thesis. You support and review each other's work in action learning groups at a distance (840 hours).

During the first year you will have four modules, in each module you have two weeks of intensive classes and nine weeks for making assignments.

Each module combines theoretical topics within Occupational Therapy and Occupational Science with scientific method and theory.

Timetable 

Submissions and resubmissions are always due on the Wednesday of the mentioned week.

Year 1 

Module 1: Exploration of Concepts of Occupation and Research

University of Brighton

• Introduction to OT-EuroMaster: skills for postgraduate learning and competence based teaching and assessment
• Concepts of Occupation
• Epistemology
• Ontology (philosophy underpinning science)
• Ethics
• There will be a mix of preparatory work at home, contact hours on campus and assignments at home.

Module 2: Qualitative Research Methods and Human Occupation, Diversity, Culture and Participation

Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences

• Understanding and Applying Qualitative Methods
• Developing Skills in Qualitative Methods
• Dynamic Interaction of Human Occupation with Diversity, Culture and Participation
• There will be a mix of preparatory work at home, contact hours in Amsterdam and assignments at home.

Module 3: Quantitative Research Methods in Relation to Evaluation and Enhancement of Occupational Performance

Zurich University of Applied Sciences

• Understanding and Applying Quantitative Methods
• Developing Skills in Quantitative Methods
• Development of Assessment for Measuring Occupational Performance
• Implementation of Research
• There will be a mix of preparatory work at home, contact hours in Zurich and assignments at home.

Module 4: Socio-cultural Perspectives of Human Occupation

University College Zealand in Næstved

• Societal and Sociological Perspectives on Human Occupation, Population Health and OT Practice.
• Political, Economic, Healthcare and Cultural Conditions and the Relationship(s) to Human Occupation in different Social Situations and Cultural Settings
• There will be a mix of preparatory work at home, contact hours in Naestved and assignments at home.

Year 2 

Module 5: Planning a Research Project within the Body of Knowledge of the OT Discipline

Karolinska Institutet

This module will involve:

• Literature review as background study
• Methodological master classes connected to the research plans
• Independent study at home
• Submission of a draft research plan, for final feedback by supervisor
• Submission of a research plan, for marking by examiners
• Examination of research plan by oral presentation and Master classes on research methods in Stockholm

Module 6: Conducting a Research Project within the OT Discipline

This module will involve:

• Independent study at home
• Submission of thesis
• Grading by thesis examiner
• Marking and feedback sent to you
• Your oral presentation of thesis and graduation

Travel and accommodation

Our European Master of Science in Occupational Therapy offers you the high quality education of five participating universities. It gives you the exciting opportunity to visit several European cities and to learn and travel. The organising universities provide advice and assistant in finding suitable accommodation.

During the first year you travel five times to attend classes in the country that delivers the module. Each trip will last two weeks. First you will visit Brighton, United Kingdom, then Næstved near Copenhagen in Denmark, followed by Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

The fourth module is in Winterthur, Switzerland, and finally in the fifth module you go for one week to the Swedish capital Stockholm. The presentation of the research findings will take place at an examination seminar held in one of these countries.

Course fees

Check the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences for course fees. Find out more on their website.

The fees listed here are for the first year of full-time study if you start your course in the academic year 2025–26.

You will pay fees for each year of your course. Some fees may increase each year.

UK undergraduate and some postgraduate fees are regulated by the UK government and increases will not be more than the maximum amount allowed. Course fees that are not regulated may increase each year by up to 5% or RPI (whichever is higher).

If you are studying part-time your fee will usually be calculated based on the number of modules that you take.

Find out more

• Fees, bursaries, scholarships and government funding info for UK and international postgraduate students
• Student finance and budgeting while studying
• About the university’s fees by checking our student contract and tuition fee policy (pdf).

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