ERASMUS Mundus II Programme (2009-2013)
Mobility Scheme for Students and Scholars
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Higher Education Cooperation
ERASMUS Mundus
ERASMUS Mundus is a cooperation and mobility programme in the fi eld of higher education, which was initiated by the European Commis-sion. Its fi rst generation (2004-2008) entered into force on 20 January 2004 in order to enhance the quality of European higher education and to foster intercultural understanding via cooperation with Third Countries. With a budget of EUR 230 million, the European Commission has funded 103 ERASMUS Mundus Master Courses, 47 partnerships with Third Countries and 53 attractiveness projects. Grants have been awarded to 6.181 students and 1.125 scholars from third countries, 1.814 students and 596 scholars from Europe.
What is the ERASMUS Mundus Programme?
With a new budget of EUR 940 million ERASMUS Mundus enters into its second phase (2009 – 2013) comprising three actions:
Action 1
– Joint Programmes (including scholarship scheme)Action 2
– Cooperation Partnerships (including scholarship scheme)Action 3
– Promotion ProjectsAction 1
What is the ERASMUS Mundus Programme?
Action 2
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Higher Education Cooperation
ERASMUS Mundus
Action 1
Joint Programmes
ERASMUS Mundus Master Courses and ERASMUS Mundus Joint Doctoral Courses
ERASMUS Mundus Consortia of at least three universities from different European countries and, if relevant, from Third Countries offer an grated master course (with a duration of one to two years) or an inte-grated doctoral course (maximum duration of four years) with a study/ research period in at least two European universities of the consortium and lead to the award of a recognised double, multiple or joint degree. These courses, selected by the European Commission, give
● scholarships to European and Third-Country master students or doctoral candidates enrolled in ERASMUS Mundus Joint grammes,
● short-term scholarships to European and Third-Country scholars to carry out teaching and research activities in ERASMUS Mundus Master Courses.
What is the ERASMUS Mundus Programme?
Action 2
Cooperation Partnerships
ERASMUS Mundus External Cooperation Window
Partnerships (with a duration from 1 to 34 months) composed of a mi-nimum of fi ve universities from three European countries and at least one university from targeted Third-Country groups (geographical lots) implement sustainable cooperation mechanisms and organise structu-red mobility fl ows between Europe and Third Countries in order to give
● scholarships to students (undergraduates, masters, doctorates, post-doctorates), researchers and academic staff from Europe and Third Countries.
Who can receive an ERASMUS Mundus Scholarship?
ERASMUS Mundus scholarships are exclusively reserved for courses and networks selected under Action 1 and 2. Under Action 1, all scholarships
Action 3
ERASMUS Mundus Promotion Projects
Higher education institutions and other public and private organisa-tions active in the fi eld of higher education from European and Third Countries constitute a project partnership in order to enhance the attractiveness, accessibility, profi le and visibility of European Higher Education in the world. This action supports activities that contribute to the objectives of the programme and relate to the international dimension of all aspects of higher education.
Who can receive an ERASMUS Mundus Scholarship?
ERASMUS Mundus scholarships are exclusively reserved for courses and networks selected under Action 1 and 2. Under Action 1, all scholarships are subject-related according to the respective ERASMUS Mundus Course, whereas scholarships under Action 2 cover all fi elds of study1 (not ne-cessarily at each university within the respective network). In general, ERASMUS Mundus scholarship holders cannot benefi t from other community grants (e.g. Erasmus, Marie Curie).
to the objectives of the programme and relate to the international dimension of all aspects of higher education.
Action 1:
ERASMUS Mundus Joint Programmes:
1. Full-time enrolment - Master Courses and Doctoral Courses:
Student candidates holding a fi rst or a second higher education degree (bachelor, master or equivalent) from:
● Third Countries [who have not carried out their main activity (studies, work etc.) for more than a total of 12 months over the last fi ve years in Europe]2 and
● European Countries
in order to study in at least two European Countries with a possible Third-Country mobility where Third-Country universities are part of the consortium. These countries must be different from the scholarship holder’s home country and from the country in which he or she obtai-ned the last university degree.
Action 2:
Who can receive an ERASMUS Mundus Scholarship?
2. Part-time teaching and research activities - Master Courses:
Scholar candidates from:
● Third Countries performing teaching/research/student tutoring activities in European Countries,
● European Countries performing teaching/research/student tutoring activities in Third Countries if the consortium includes Third-Country partners.
Subsistence allowances for scholarship holders:
Action 2:
ERASMUS Mundus External Cooperation Window
(full-time study - 1 to 34 months):
European and Third-Country undergraduates, masters, doctorates, post-doctorates and academic staff from different target groups can apply in order to benefi t from one mobility fl ow within the network. Mobility is only possible from Europe to Third Countries or from Third Countries to Europe. The type and number of eligible mobility fl ows varies depen-ding on the respective country/geographical lots.
Action 1:
Action 2:
1 The scheme operates in all academic disciplines although priority
may be given to agricultural sciences, architecture and regional planning, business studies, engineering and technology, languages and philological sciences, law, mathematics and informatics, medi-cal sciences, social sciences.
2 The only exception to this rule applies to Third-Country doctoral
candidates who have previously received an ERASMUS Mundus master scholarship.
Defi nition:
● European individual: A Person who is a national of any of the 27 Member States of the European Union (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, EEA-EFTA states (Iceland, Liechtenstein & Norway) or the candidate countries for accession to the EU (Croatia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Turkey).
● Third-Country individual: A person who is a national of a Third Country other than those from the 27 Member States of the European Union, EEA-EFTA states or candidate countries.
Subsistence allowances for scholarship holders:
Action 1:
Action 2:
Master Courses:
● Students (promotion 1 – 2 years):
Third-Country nationals 24.000 €/year European nationals 10.000 €/year*
● Scholars (promotion 2 – 12 weeks):
Third-Country/European nationals: 1.200 €/week
Doctoral Courses (promotion 3 years)
● Third-Country/European nationals: 61.200 € (non-laboratory course without
employment contract) – 123.400 € (laboratory based course with employment contract)
* plus 3.000 € travel cost - if Third-Country mobility.
Third-Country/European nationals (promotion 1 – 34 months): ● undergraduates: 1.075 €/month* ● masters: 1.075 €/month* ● doctorates: 1.575 €/month* ● post-doctorates: 1.875 €/month**
● academic staff: 2.575 €/month** * Fee waiver policy if stay is below 10 months, otherwise 3.000 € per academic year additionally.
** Fees not applicable.
candidates who have previously received an ERASMUS Mundus master scholarship.
* plus 3.000 travel cost - if Third-Country mobility.
How to apply?
All candidates have to apply directly to the selected Action 1 consortia or Action 2 partnerships of their choice and go through a competitive selection process. The application and selection procedures as well as the scholarship award criteria are decided on by the consortium in charge of each individual course and may therefore vary from one consortium or partnership to another. Deadlines for application will be announced by the consortia and partnerships on their respective websites.
Students may apply to the maximum number of 3 courses for a schol-arship under Action 1 – there is no limit for Action 2.
A list of courses and partnerships (incl. respective websites) already selected can be found at:
http://ec.europa.eu/education/external-relation-programmes/doc72_en.htm http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/index.htm
Visa issues:
Once selected candidates have received an offi cial confi rmation of their admittance to one of the Erasmus Mundus Program-mes under Action 1 or 2, they have to obtain a visa to study in Europe. For information related to visa requirements, selected candidates are advised to liaise as early as possible with Consu-lates and Embassies of the EU member states in the concerned countries. However, Erasmus Mundus Courses provide students with advice and supporting documents which often facilitate the process.
So far, 103 European ERASMUS Mundus Master
Courses have been selected – there are 50 courses
with German participation:
• EM-ABG - European Master in Animal Breeding and Genetics • IMHS – International Master in Horticultural Sciences • IMRD – International Master of Science in Rural Development • MSc EF – Master of Science in European Forestry
• SUFONAMA – Sustainable Forest and Nature Management
• SUTROFOR – Sustainable Tropical Forestry Erasmus Mundus Master’s Course • MACLANDS: Master of Cultural LANDScapes
• MUNDUS URBANO – Interdisciplinary Erasmus Mundus Master Course International Cooperation and Urban Development
• Master Conjoint Erasmus Mundus et Etude du Spectacle Vivant
• CoMundus – European Master of Arts in Media, Communication and Cultural Studies
• Erasmus Mundus Masters – Journalism and Media within Globalization: The European Perspective • LCT - European Masters Program in Language and Communication Technology
• AMASE – Joint European Masters Programme in Advanced Materials Science and Engineering • EMM-NANO – Erasmus Mundus Master of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Agricultural and Forestry Sciences
Architecture, Urban and Regional Plan-ning
Art and Design Communication and Information Sciences
Engineering, Techno-logy
• LCT - European Masters Program in Language and Communication Technology
• AMASE – Joint European Masters Programme in Advanced Materials Science and Engineering • EMM-NANO – Erasmus Mundus Master of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
• EMMEP – Erasmus Mundus Minerals and Environmental Programme • EMMME – Erasmus Mundus Master of Mechanical Engineering • EMMS – Joint European Masters Programme in Materials Science
• EU4M – European Union Master’s Course in Mechatronic and Micro-mechatronic Systems • EuMAS – European Masters Course in Aeronautics and Space Technology
• EURO-AQUAE – Euro Hydro-Informatics and Water Management
• FUSION-EP European Master in Nuclear Fusion Science and Engineering Physics • GIM – MSc in Global Innovation Management
• JEMES – Joint European Master Programme in Environmental Studies
• MaMaSELF – Master of Materials Science exploiting European Large Scale Facilities • Master of Science in Computational Mechanics
• MATHMODS – Mathematical Modelling in Engineering: Theory, Numerics, Applications • MERIT – European Master of Research on Information and Communication Technologies • OPSCITECH – Optics in Science and Technology
• SEFOTECH.nut – European MSc in Food Science, Technology and Nutrition • SpaceMaster – Joint European Master in Space Science and Technology • EMMEP – Erasmus Mundus Minerals and Environmental Programme • EMCL – European Master’s Clinical Linguistics
• EURO-AQUAE – Euro Hydro-Informatics and Water Management Master’s Clinical Linguistics • IMRD – International Master of Science in Rural Development
• Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies
• SUTROFOR – Sustainable Tropical Forestry Erasmus Mundus Master Course
• EMCL – European Master’s Clinical Linguistics
• tropEd – European Master of Science Programme in International Health Engineering, Techno-logy Geography, Earth and Environmental Studies Health Sciences
• Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies
• SUTROFOR – Sustainable Tropical Forestry Erasmus Mundus Master Course
• EMCL – European Master’s Clinical Linguistics
• tropEd – European Master of Science Programme in International Health
• CoMundus – European Master of Arts in Media, Communication and Cultural Studies • EUROCULTURE
• European Master in Global Studies
• Philosophies allemande et française dans l’espace européene • EMCL – European Master’s Clinical Linguistics
• LCT - European Masters Program in Language and Communication Technology • European master’s in Transnational Trade Law Finance
• LL.M. Eur - European Legal Practice • European Master in Law and Economics • EuMI – European Master in Informatics
• EURO-AQUAE – Euro Hydro-Informatics and Water Management • European Masters Course in Software Engineering
• European Masters Programme in Computational Logic • Master in Industrial Mathematics
• MATHMODS – Mathematical Modelling in Engineering: Theory, Numerics, Applications • QEM – Models and Methods of Quantitative Economics
• ACS MSc – Master of Science: Advanced Spectroscopy in Chemistry
• AMASE – Joint European Masters Programme in Advanced Materials Science and Engineering Health Sciences
Humanities
Languages and Philo-logical Sciences Law
Mathematics, Infor-matics
• ACS MSc – Master of Science: Advanced Spectroscopy in Chemistry
• AMASE – Joint European Masters Programme in Advanced Materials Science and Engineering • EMAE – European Master in Applied Ecology
• EMBC – Erasmus Mundus Master of Science in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation • EMM-NANO – Erasmus Mundus Master of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
• EMMS – Joint European Masters Programme in Materials Science • EUMAINE – European Master of Science in Nematology
• FAME – Functionalised Advanced Materials and Engineering
• FUSION-EP European Master in Nuclear Fusion Science and Engineering Physics • OPSCITECH – Optics in Science and Technology
• SEFOTECH.nut – European MSc in Food Science, Technology and Nutrition • SpaceMaster – Joint European Master in Space Science and Technology • CoDe – Joint European Master in Comparative Local Development • EUROCULTURE
• European Master in Global Studies • European Master in Law and Economics
• NOHA MUNDUS – European Master’s Degree in International Humanitarian Aid • QEM – Models and Methods of Quantitative Economics
• CoMundus – European Master of Arts in Media, Communication and Cultural Studies • EUROCULTURE
• European Master in Global Studies Natural Sciences
Social Sciences
Other:
Cultural Sciences
Complete list of ERASMUS Mundus Master Courses (2004-2008) at:
Complete list of ERASMUS Mundus Master Courses (2004-2008) at:
http://ec.europa.eu/education/external-relation-programmes/doc72_en.htm
Due to their year of selection a certain number of these courses may drop out yearly as the courses have been selected for fi ve years.
First courses of the second generation will be selected in autumn 2009 and put on the above mentioned websites. Studies in the new courses will start with the academic year 2010/2011.
“Different people, different visions, one achievement.” Jesus Jimenez, current Euroculture student at the University of Goettingen
Student’s opinions and comments:
“Different people, different visions, one achievement.” Jesus Jimenez, current Euroculture student at the University of Goettingen
„The courses are well-integrated into the programme, and the programme is well-coordinated.“ Harry Snow, USA
„The programme is stressful and intense, but the knowledge passed to the students is worth the efforts.“ Marija Slavkovik, Macedonia
„Sharing experiences between students from different countries helps to provide new ideas of life from other cultures.“
Andrianova Ekaterina, Russia
„Studies and the life in the partner universities are signifi cant, meaningful, unforgettable and an attractive experi-ence in my life.“ Jie Gao, China
„The different areas of expertise in material sciences that each university has to offer give a broad range of canvas to the students.“ Waqas Bin Najib, Pakistan
„In the middle of the course, I can say that it has already very much enriched my scientifi c abilities and my horizon and skills in interacting with people around the world. I think that this programme really facilitates mutual understanding between people.“ Adhitya Trenggono, Indonesia
„This is not only a big chance to improve my technical knowledge; it is also the opportunity to grow up as a person.“
Ricardo Chavez, Mexico
„It is the best opportunity to receive international experience, learn foreign languages and create new scientifi c contacts.“
Nataliya Kalashnyk, Ukraine
Student’s opinions and comments:
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