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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Erasmus Mundus EMASIAREGIONAL Scholarships for Asia

Overview

Welcome to the Erasmus Mundus Action 2 LOT 11 with Afghanistan, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Maldives, Philippines, Thailand and North Korea. This programme foresees mobility for undergraduate, master, doctoral and post-doctoral students and academic staff, from Asian universities to European institutions.

The Erasmus Mundus Action 2 (EMA2) is a co-operation and mobility scheme in the area of higher education co-operation launched by Europe Aid cooperation Office and implemented by the Executive Agency Education, Audiovisual and Culture (EACEA).

The EMA2 objective is to achieve better understanding and mutual enrichment between the European Union and third countries co-operation in the field of higher education through promoting the exchange of persons, knowledge and skills at higher education level. This will be achieved through the promotion of partnerships and institutional co-operation exchanges between European Higher Education Institutions and Third Country institutions and a mobility scheme addressing student and academic exchanges.


Partners

University of Deusto (BILBAO)
University of Twente (ENSCHEDE)
Oxford Brookes University (OXFORD)
University of Trento (TRENTO)
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (BERLIN)
Kabul University (KABUL)
Tribhuvan University (KIRTIPUR, KATHMANDU)
International Islamic University (ISLAMABAD)
University of Colombo (COLOMBO)
Sanata Dharma University (YOGYAKARTA)
Royal University of Bhutan, Sherubtse College Kanlung (KANLUNG)
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (MALAYSIA)
Ateneo de Manila University (QUEZON)
Chulalongkorn University (BANGKOK)
Maldives College of Higher Education (MALE´)
Peking University (BEIJING)
University of Pune (PUNE)
Pyongyang University of Science & Technology (PYONGYANG)

Who can participate

TARGET GROUP 1

Students and academic staff registered in one of the universities members of the partnership.

TARGET GROUP 2

Asians of the countries of the partnership (Afghanistan, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Maldives, Philippines, Thailand, China, North Korea.) registered at a Higher Education Institution NOT included in the partnership or having obtained a degree or equivalent from an institution in their country (which may be a partner or not).

This includes the possibility of providing mobility opportunities to nationals of the Asian countries in the partnership (Afghanistan, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Maldives, Philippines, Thailand, China, North Korea.) who are working in public administration and public and private enterprises.

TARGET GROUP 3

Asians of the countries of the partnership (Afghanistan, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Maldives, Philippines, Thailand, China, North Korea.) in vulnerable situations. It may cover mobility for students holding the respective nationality and:

- having a refugee status or asylum beneficiaries (international or according to the national legislation of one of the European recipient countries) or

- it can be proved that they have been the object of unjustified expulsion from university on racial, ethnic, religious, political, gender or sexual inclination reasons or

- they belong to an indigenous population targeted by a specific national policy.

Note:

§ In order to be an elegible candidate, you must have not resided nor have carried out their main activity (studies, work, etc) for more than a total of 12 months over the last five years in one of the European countries.

§ No student, and no academic staff member can benefit from more than one mobility activity within the same project.

§ Mobility flows for student and academic staff between institutions in the Asian countries of the partnership are NOT eligible. Mobility must go from Asia(Afghanistan, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Maldives, Philippines, Thailand, China, North Korea.) to Europe.

Grants

Round ticket: Economy fair (maximun per kms applies)

Monthly Subsistence Allowance

Undergraduate: 1000
Master: 1000
Doctorate: 1500
Post-Doctorate: 1800
Academic Staff: 2500

Detail about grant can be found at scholarization doc

General requirements

A) General requirements for Afghan, Bhutanese, Nepali, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Indian, Indonesian, Malaysian, Maldivian, Filipino, Thai, Chinese and North Korean students

scholarization-blogspot-com

The eligibility criteria for students are:

Students must have one of the eligible nationalities Students must have sufficient knowledge of the language of the courses offered Undergraduate students must have successfully completed at least one year of studies in their home institution. For TARGET GROUP 1: students need to be registered at one of the Higher Education Institution member of the partnership of the respective eligible countries. For TARGET GROUP 2: candidates need either to be registered in one of the eligible countries university (that is not a partner of the consortium) or to have obtained a diploma from one of the eligible countries Higher Education Institution (partner or not). For TARGET GROUP 3, students need to hold one of the eligible nationalities and be part of the vulnerable target groups. All applicants must provide the required documents. (link a required documents)
B) General requirements for Academic Staff Mobility – Asian Countries (Target Group1)

Academic staff undertaking a period of teaching, training or research in a partner university must:

work in or be associated to one of the participating institutions; have the nationality of one of the eligible countries and be fully integrated into the Department or Faculty of the host institution(s). This last criterion means that:

the mobility assignments must be based on partnership agreements between the members of the partnership; the home and host universities and the individual teachers must agree on the programme of lectures to be delivered by the visiting teachers, on the research activities or type of training to be followed; In the selection process, priority will be given to mobility assignments which will also:

ensure that the visiting teacher’s contributions will be an integral part of a diploma programme of the host institution; will lead to the production of new teaching material; will be used to consolidate and extend links between departments and faculties and to prepare for future cooperation projects between the sending and host university; will help strengthen the international cooperation departments in the foreign universities; will lead to progresses in the application of ECTS or other systems for recognition of studies in the partner institution.

Selection process

The selection process will be based on objective criteria, agreed by all the universities of the consortium:

academic profile academic performance linguistic ability motivation of the candidate (expressed in the motivation statement included in the application form) candidate commitment with home country level of vulnerability and socio-economic status geographical, institutional, thematic fields and gender balance

DEADLINE: January 31st 2011, 00:00 hr CET (Central European Time)

Further information about application, visit: http://emasiaregional.com/


Please kindly mention Scholarization.blogspot.com when applying for this scholarship


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