If you are interested in the European Union, in European law and more specifically labour law, this master's programme will not only offer you great education in theory, but it also allowed me to see with my own eyes how the system works in practise.

A two-day student trip to Brussels containing a visits to the European Parliament, the European Commission, the ILO, the Trade Union Confederation, an employers' organisation and an international law firm gave me a unique inside look into the world of international and European labour law. To me, the most interesting aspect was that these institutions, organisation and businesses gave me different views on the same matters.

Take the example of ‘social dumping’. The EP, the Commission and the ILO are supposed to create and enforce regulation that strikes a balance between the different interests, employers' representatives will argue for the freedom to provide services while employee representatives will endorse high standards of protection and control. All this information became part of what I can now call knowledge.

It is true that I could have read it all in a book, but having the actual experts in the field explain this in Brussels and being able to take part in the conversation was just great!