News from the Finnish Erasmus Mundus Arena:
The first Finnish University participates in a Doctoral programme and the first University of Applied Sciences in a Masters course
Out of 137 proposals, the European Commission has in July 2011 selected 10 new jointly developed Erasmus Mundus Doctoral programmes to start in autumn 2012. The Finnish Aalto University is a degree-awarding partner in an international doctoral programme on Environomical Pathways for Sustainable Energy Services. A Masters course within the same field has already been running for a year, and the newly selected Doctoral programme is a next step for students interested in further studies.
“You rarely get funding for long-term co-operation within such a widespread international network focusing on one specific research field”,says Professor Tapani Vuorinen from the Department of Forest Products Technology at Aalto University. The Mundus Doctoral programme also gives added value through fostering enterprise co-operation, in this case with Stora Enso among others. Erasmus Mundus offers the participating enterprise access to a global expert network of academic and non-academic players.
The doctoral programme is co-ordinated by the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. Other partners in this international network are the Technical University of Catalonia, Eindhoven University of Technology, Politecnico di Torino, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza im Stanislawa Staszica and Instituto Superior Técnico.
Metropolia pioneers Erasmus Mundus
Thirty new Erasmus Mundus Masters courses were selected this year, three with Finnish participation. For the first time, a Finnish University of Applied Sciences will be a degree-awarding partner with the launch of an Erasmus Mundus Masters course in Emergency and Critical Care Nursing in the Metropolia University of Applied Sciences in the autumn of 2012
The other newly selected Finnish Erasmus Mundus Masters courses are Research and Innovation in Higher Education at the University of Tampere and International Masters in Russian, Central and East European Studies at the University of Turku.
There were 116 Master-level and 13 doctoral level study programmes running in Europe within Erasmus Mundus during the academic year 2010–2011. Finnish students are also invited to apply to Erasmus Mundus programmes.
All Erasmus Mundus programmes offer generous scholarships to highly qualified students. For more information, please contact each study programme directly.
A specific feature for all the newly selected Erasmus Mundus study programmes is the dialogue with relevant socio-economic partners such as enterprises, research centres and non-governmental organisations in an international context. The communication with this large network is to guarantee the quality of the study programmes .
Elsewhere on web
European Commission: More information about the Erasmus Mundus programmes selected to start in autumn 2012
(18 August 2011 / VZ & JLK)