Programme

Structure

EMILDAI offers a highly integrated, multilingual and interdisciplinary curriculum, which is articulated into two years (120 ECTS). EMILDAI students will receive a joint master degree awarded by the partner universities they attend (joint degree ‘per track’). Students are required to know at least one language (English, for study tracks C and D, see below) or at least two languages (for study tracks A and B): either English and French or English and Spanish.

Year 1 aims to offer students a comprehensive introduction to the core themes related to law, data and AI, while Year 2 aims to provide students with a specialisation in the fields of data governance, cybersecurity, fundamental rights and sustainability, global digital regulation, AI law and ethics, and human-centric and accountable AI.

Students are divided into two Study Streams: Law and Computing, depending on the student’s disciplinary background and professional experience. EMILDAI’s programme and curriculum design supports the learning outcomes of the programme, which include subject-specific, practical, intellectual, and transferable skills.

In Year 1, students of both streams will spend semester 1 and 2 at DCU completing an ‘Introduction to Law, Data and AI’. In Year 2, Law Stream students will specialise in either data governance at Avignon Université (Study Track A, taught in French), cybersecurity at Universidad de León (Study Track B, taught in Spanish), fundamental rights and sustainability at Erasmus University Rotterdam (Study Track C, taught in English), or global digital regulation at Fundação Getulio Vargas in Rio de Janeiro (Study Track D, taught in English) in semester 3, and will gain an in-depth understanding of AI Law and Ethics at Università di Pisa in semester 4.

In Year 2, Computing Stream students in Study Tracks A and B will spend both semester 3 and 4 specialising in either data governance at Avignon Université (Study Track A, taught in French) or cybersecurity at Universidad de León (Study Track B, taught in Spanish). Computing Stream students in Study Tracks C and D will spend semester 3  specialising in fundamental rights and sustainability at Erasmus University Rotterdam (Study Track C, taught in English), or global digital regulation at Fundação Getulio Vargas in Rio de Janeiro (Study Track D, taught in English), and will gain an in-depth understanding of human-centric and accountable AI in Università di Pisa in semester 4.

See what our students have to say about our interdisciplinary programme structure in EMILDAI in their presentation on the topic at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Kyoto 2023.

Programme Academic Structure