Work, Organizational, and Personnel Psychology (WOP)

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The European Master in Work, Organizational, and Personnel Psychology (WOP-P) is a graduate university programme, supported by the European Commission through the Erasmus Mundus Programme which provides a Postgraduated Diploma.

The Master requires a university undergraduate degree in Psychology. The objective is to contribute to the qualification of professionals and researchers in the discipline of Work, Organizational and Personnel Psychology emphasizing a European approach and perspective.

The Master implements the main guidelines developed by the Euro-Psych model for the European Diploma of Psychology (EDP) supported by the European Federation of Psychology Association (EFPA). It also follows the Reference Model and Minimal Standards of the European Curriculum in WOP Psychology established by the European Network of Work and Organizational Psychology Professors (ENOP).

Five European universities are involved: Universitat de València (Spain) as the coordinating institution, Universitat de Barcelona (Spain), Université René Descartes Paris 5 (France), Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna (Italy), and Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal) and two Non-European universities are also involved: Universidade de Brasília (Brazil) and University of Guelph (Canada).

The duration of the Programme is two full-time years, with a total workload of 120 ECTS credits (60 per year). The languages of instruction and examination can be any of the following languages: English, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.

Students are awarded a double diploma, delivered by the Home and the Host Universities they study at over the master programme.

WOP-P Programme
The Master in Work, Organizational, and Personnel Psychology (WOP-P) has four main objectives:

* To prepare the students as competent practitioners in Work, Organizational and Personnel Psychology at the entry level as independent (non supervised) practitioners. This preparation is inspired in the scientist-practitioner model, which assumes that good preparation as a practitioner implies the acquisition of professional and research competences
* To offer a European referent of training in WOP-P to the students of other regions of the world
* To promote mobility of European and third-country students and staff across Europe
* To contribute towards university excellence and competitiveness within the European Higher Education system.

The design of the Master follows two general principles. First, the Consortium has developed a training structure that is shared by all the partners, with a total workload of 120 ECTS credits in two years (60 ECTS credits per year). Secondly, the Programme permits flexibility enough in the design of specific courses to better profit the strengths and peculiarities of each partner. Thus, the Master defines a shared model of training while respecting the diversity within the different Universities of the Consortium.

According to the ENOP Model, the main areas considered in the Master are Work (W), Organizational (O), and Personnel (P) Psychology. In each of these areas the Master Programme aims to develop two types of knowledge and skills: explanatory and intervention. Explanatory refers to theory devoted to the explanation of human behaviour and its context and to diagnostic skills in work, organization, and personnel fields.

Explanatory knowledge and skills prepare the student to describe, assess, diagnose, explain, and interpret the main phenomena and psychosocial processes in the areas of work, organizations, and personnel. Intervention refers to change and design theory and intervention skills in work, organizational, and personnel fields.

Intervention theory and skills prepare the student to plan, implement, monitor, and evaluate changes and interventions in order to improve behaviours, situations, and psychosocial processes in the fields of work, organizations, and personnel. This type of knowledge and skill also prepare to design new models, strategies, methods, and tools.

The Consortium has developed a system of equivalences and validation between the courses and training activities taught in every partner institution of the Consortium to fulfil each of the aforementioned blocks.
Master Programme structure in each of the members of the consortium. The Master programme will be implemented in all European Universities of the consortium. In order to achieve an integrated Master Programme, there is a common structure and a clear system of equivalence. Some important parts of the WOP Programme can be taken in the Non-European Universities.

On the one hand, all blocks are taught in every University of the consortium. It is important to notice that the same curriculum will be taught in the Universities of Valencia, Barcelona and Coimbra. The University of Bologna and the University of Paris 5 will teach the same blocks but with slightly different courses. However, there is a clear and perfectly defined equivalence system. The courses in the same file (blocks 1-9, 11) are equivalents. In this way, when a student passes a course in a University, this course is automatically recognized in the other Universities of the consortium

On the other hand, there are common blocks in the curriculum: the joint intensive learning units (winter schools) (block 10), the research and master thesis (block 12), the professional stage (block 13), and the professional report (block 14). So, they will be the same in every member of the consortium.

Erasmus Mundus general rules about Students and Scholars scholarships by the European Commission. Academic year 2013-2014.
Without prejudice to high academic standards, in order to ensure geographical diversity among students/scholars, as compulsory requirement of the Erasmus Mundus programme, WOP-P Consortium must and shall respect the following basic criteria when selecting students/scholars for an Erasmus Mundus scholarship: * No more than two of the STUDENTS selected for an Erasmus Mundus Master Course (EMMC) scholarship should have the same nationality.
* The number of scholarships awarded to scholars from the HEI (Higher European Institution) should cover a maximum duration of 3 months (i.e. equivalent to 6 scholarships of 2 weeks).
* No scholar can be awarded a scholarship for more than 3 months (i.e. up to 6 scholarships of 2 weeks)