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Similar thing in France, however related to degrees: a Master's Degree fits within the common framework of European tertiary studies, AKA your 2-year graduate cycle that ends up totalling 5 years if you include a standard undergrad cycle (Licence). However, a "mastère spécialisé" (which is an actual trademark) is not an officially recognized diploma at all, but a label used by schools to denote (usually paid and expensive) "specialization paths". They provide no academic credits, and you can't move forward to a PhD with one. Many prestigious schools (grandes écoles) provide those kind of certifications to clueless foreign students who end up paying huge sums of money for something that holds no formal weight in any academic framework.

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Something very similar in Austria - you can get a free Master's degree (1-2 years) by doing a study programme ("Studiengang") at a university, that will also qualify you for a PhD. Or you can pay for a Master's course programme ("Lehrgang") that costs ~15k€, is usually a lot easier and does not qualify you for a PhD.

The difference here is that you are allowed to wear the title of MSc either way and both programmes do confer ECTS points - only the latter does not qualify you for a PhD.