Each student at least once in life during the master level studies has to write a Research Proposal. Each student develops and submits Research Proposal - a proposal for research that is laid in the basis for future dissertations. Research Proposal is defended not less than 4 months before the dissertation defense and is the second mandatory stage of work after the agreement and approval of dissertation topic.
A research proposal is intended to convince others that you have a very good research project and that you have enough competence and right work-plan to complete it. Generally, a research proposal should contain all the key elements involved in the research process and include sufficient information for the readers to evaluate the proposed study.

Regardless of your research area and the methodology you choose, all research proposals must answer the following questions: What you plan to accomplish, why you want to do it and how you are going to do it.

When writing a Research Proposal students in compulsory reflect two blocks of preparation of the dissertation:

1) theoretical and methodological parts of the dissertation;
2) research part of the thesis.

The theoretical and methodological parts describe the relevance of the topic of master studies, established area of concern, the object and subject of study as well as the purpose and objectives of the work associated with the hypothesis of the study. The first part also includes an analysis of the main sources of literature - an overview of the fundamental in this field sources, as well as a proposal to work with primary sources, including periodicals, data, studies, scientific researches etc. Based on the plan and the concept of the thesis, student gives a brief description of future work and its structure. The proposal should have sufficient information to convince your readers that you have an important research idea, that you have a good grasp of the relevant literature and the major issues, and that your methodology is sound.

In the research section basing on the proposed hypothesis and research methodology the author gives future research plan, expected results, used methods, establish criteria for the validity of the study.

Research Proposal has to be approved by the supervisor of the student and to be agreed with the head of the master's program. Students who do not successfully defend Research Proposal, shall be permitted to continue their work on a dissertation and can not be allowed to defend it.