Forest and Nature for Society (FONASO) is a three-year world-class Joint Doctoral Programme. FONASO is part of the Erasmus Mundus programme initiated by the European Commission to enhance and promote European higher education throughout the world. The language of the programme is English.
Sustainable forest and nature management
The main objective of the FONASO programme is to educate the leaders of the future generation of researchers, teachers and top management staff working with sustainable forest and nature management, in both tropical and temperate regions, to ensure wider societal benefits. Within forest and nature management, the programme is focused on the scientific fields of (i) economics and policy, and (ii) ecology and silviculture. The emphasis is on applied research.
The FONASO Consortium
The FONASO programme is offered by a Consortium that includes globally top ranked universities and leading international research organisations. The programme builds on existing research schools and environments, taking the best from each to build up joint supervision, activities and doctoral candidate courses. The Consortium consists of seven partner institutions and five associate institutions:
Partner institutions:
•University of Copenhagen, Denmark
•The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
•Bangor University, UK
•Dresden University, Germany
•University of Göttingen, Germany
•AgroParisTech, France
•University of Padova, Italy
Associate institutions:
•Center for International Forestry Research, Indonesia
•Dalhoff Larsen & Hornemann, Denmark
•James Cook University, Australia
•University of British Columbia, Canada
•World Agroforestry Centre, Kenya
Sustainable forest and nature management
The main objective of the FONASO programme is to educate the leaders of the future generation of researchers, teachers and top management staff working with sustainable forest and nature management, in both tropical and temperate regions, to ensure wider societal benefits. Within forest and nature management, the programme is focused on the scientific fields of (i) economics and policy, and (ii) ecology and silviculture. The emphasis is on applied research.
The FONASO Consortium
The FONASO programme is offered by a Consortium that includes globally top ranked universities and leading international research organisations. The programme builds on existing research schools and environments, taking the best from each to build up joint supervision, activities and doctoral candidate courses. The Consortium consists of seven partner institutions and five associate institutions:
Partner institutions:
•University of Copenhagen, Denmark
•The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
•Bangor University, UK
•Dresden University, Germany
•University of Göttingen, Germany
•AgroParisTech, France
•University of Padova, Italy
Associate institutions:
•Center for International Forestry Research, Indonesia
•Dalhoff Larsen & Hornemann, Denmark
•James Cook University, Australia
•University of British Columbia, Canada
•World Agroforestry Centre, Kenya
Fellowships
Every year approximately 8-10 fellowships will be available to academically outstanding applicants. There is one annual call for applications; short-listed applicants are invited to Europe to present and discuss their proposals.
Fellowship Amounts
Category A and B fellowships are identical except that the first are eligible to receive €7500 for travel and the latter €0/3000. Each fellowship is made up of two more components: operational funds and salary/stipend. Operational funding ranges from €10,800 to €21,600 depending on type of study while salary (doctoral candidate employed) is €100,800 and stipends (doctoral candidate legally treated as a student) is €50,400. See more info http://www.fonaso.eu/Fellowships/Fellowshipstable.aspx
Application and election Procedures
Deadline 16 November 2009
FONASO only issues one annual call for applications covering both EU and third-country applicants in order to obtain one pool of applications among which to select the best. The annual call announces selected research subjects relevant to the application round. FONASO has a policy of equal opportunities for men and women and people with special needs.
Application Form and Guidelines
You can access the Application Form 2009 here. For directions on how to complete the application, you can download the Guidelines to completing the FONASO doctoral candidate application form.
Main contents of the application form:
Indication of selected research topic from the FONASO PhD Topic Catalogue
Project synopsis of max 1500 words
A sample of own scientific text
Certified copy of second university degree(s) certificate
Brief Curriculum Vitae
English proficiency (min score IELTS 7.0 , TOEFL: Paper-based 600/IBT 100)
Two academic references
Evaluation criteria Eligible applications are evaluated by the FONASO Assessment Committee according to three main criteria:
Academic potential as indicated by (i) a very good second university degree; (ii) a research synopsis that closely relates to one of the topics announced in the FONASO PhD Topic Catalogue, (iii) documented research achievements, e.g. publications in international journals with peer review. This is the most important criterion
English proficiency
Academic references
Short-listing
Every year approximately 8-10 fellowships will be available to academically outstanding applicants. There is one annual call for applications; short-listed applicants are invited to Europe to present and discuss their proposals.
Fellowship Amounts
Category A and B fellowships are identical except that the first are eligible to receive €7500 for travel and the latter €0/3000. Each fellowship is made up of two more components: operational funds and salary/stipend. Operational funding ranges from €10,800 to €21,600 depending on type of study while salary (doctoral candidate employed) is €100,800 and stipends (doctoral candidate legally treated as a student) is €50,400. See more info http://www.fonaso.eu/Fellowships/Fellowshipstable.aspx
Application and election Procedures
Deadline 16 November 2009
FONASO only issues one annual call for applications covering both EU and third-country applicants in order to obtain one pool of applications among which to select the best. The annual call announces selected research subjects relevant to the application round. FONASO has a policy of equal opportunities for men and women and people with special needs.
Application Form and Guidelines
You can access the Application Form 2009 here. For directions on how to complete the application, you can download the Guidelines to completing the FONASO doctoral candidate application form.
Main contents of the application form:
Indication of selected research topic from the FONASO PhD Topic Catalogue
Project synopsis of max 1500 words
A sample of own scientific text
Certified copy of second university degree(s) certificate
Brief Curriculum Vitae
English proficiency (min score IELTS 7.0 , TOEFL: Paper-based 600/IBT 100)
Two academic references
Evaluation criteria Eligible applications are evaluated by the FONASO Assessment Committee according to three main criteria:
Academic potential as indicated by (i) a very good second university degree; (ii) a research synopsis that closely relates to one of the topics announced in the FONASO PhD Topic Catalogue, (iii) documented research achievements, e.g. publications in international journals with peer review. This is the most important criterion
English proficiency
Academic references
Short-listing
Based on this, the best applicants are short-listed and invited to develop a full project proposal. Short-listed applicants are informed by email no later than 1 December 2009. They are put in direct contact with the potential supervisors, who will assist the applicant in developing the full project proposal. Within a deadline of 5 weeks, the applicant submits the full proposal on a standard format to the FONASO Secretariat.
Interview
The short-listed applicants are invited to present their proposal before a Scientific Committee, consisting of at least two members of the FONASO Consortium Commission and one supervisor of each proposal. The interviews will take place in Copenhagen in Week 2 of 2010. Applicant costs are covered by the Consortium. We expect around half of interviewed applicants to be offered a fellowship.
Start date
Selected doctoral candidates should expect to start their doctoral studies around 1 September 2010.
Erasmus Mundus Secretariat
For further information on e.g. the programme, admission procedures and deadlines please contact us at
FONASO@life.ku.dk
You are also welcome to write to
Erasmus Mundus Secretariat
University of Copenhagen
Faculty of Life Sciences
Bülowsvej 17
DK-1870 Frederiksberg
Denmark
Website: http://www.fonaso.eu/AboutFONASO.aspx
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