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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Erasmus Mundus (EUROPHOTONICS) Scholarships for International Students

Overview

The Master for Photonics Engineering, Nanophotonics and Biophotonics covers one of the most expanding field in physics and material sciences, dealing with the control, manipulation and monitoring of light and its interaction with matter.

This master program aims at giving an extensive two-year teaching program from fundamentals to advanced research topics in Photonics and its interdisciplinary applications. Master students benefiting from this program will be able to work on today’s new challenges in their academic or applied research carriers : understanding and control matter and optical phenomena at the ultimate nanometric scale, providing new imaging tools for the most complex biological processes from cells and tissues to clinical applications, bringing original tools in line with future optical devices.

Partner Universities

This two years master program (120 ECTS credits) is organized by three groups of institutions : Paul Cézanne Aix-Marseille III University (France), Universität Karlsruhe (TH) / Karlsruhe School of Optics & Photonics (Germany), Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya/Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona/ University of Barcelona/ICFO (Institute of Photonic Sciences) (Spain). These institutions are recognized for their high quality training and research centers in the field of Optics and Photonics and their applications, with the unique opportunity to benefit from the presence of excellence and interdisciplinary research institutes, high level advice by professors and administrative staff, as well as local companies and international cooperation networking.

Students selected on the basis of their scientific and English-language levels will follow a first semester of fundamental lectures in optics and its applications in Marseille. The second semester on core subjects will be spent in Kalsruhe. The third specialization semester is proposed as a choice (restricted to conditions based on the marks obtained during the 1st semester) between the three institutions: Marseille (imaging : biophotonics/biomedical optics/astronomy), Karlsruhe (photonic materials and devices/nanobiology/optical engineering), and Barcelona (quantum optics/nanophotonics/optical engineering). The last semester is dedicated to the master thesis and summer school.

This program is dedicated to students with background in Physics or Engineering, who will receive a multiple master diploma awarded from the universities where they spent their semesters. The teaching language is primarily English, although some lectures can be given in the local languages supported by training.


Admission criteria

The students that can candidate to the program need a “bachelor” or “Licence” level corresponding to, at least, 180 ECTS (validated for European students or their equivalent for students from third countries), in the field of : physics, engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, physical chemistry, applied physics, optics or a related field.

A medium level in English is required.

Erasmus Mundus Scholarships 2012-2013

– Scholarship candidates must have already obtained a first higher education degree or demonstrate a recognized equivalent level of learning according to national legislation and practices.

– Individuals who have already benefited from an EMMC scholarship are not eligible for a second scholarship in order to follow the same or another EMMC.

– Students benefiting from an EMMC scholarship cannot benefit from another Community grant while pursuing their Erasmus Mundus masters studies.

– EMMC students scholarships are awarded exclusively for a full-time enrolment in one of the course editions.

Students benefiting from an Erasmus Mundus scholarship must spend their study period in at least two of the consortium partner countries. These two countries must be different from the country in which the scholarship holder has obtained his/her last university degree

  • Category A fellowships are awarded to selected master candidates, who come from a country other than an eligible applicant country (i.e. a Member State of the European Union, an EEA-EFTA State – Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein- Turkey, the Western Balkan countries – Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia.-, or Switzerland), and who are not residents 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 these countries.

Category A monthly allowance : 1000 € / month

Category A master candidates benefit from a contribution to the candidate’s travel, installation (and other types of costs) (see below)

3200€ will be given at the beginning of the master to the Category A students for the installation costs.

  • Category B fellowships are awarded to any master candidate selected by EMMC consortia and who do not fulfil the Category A criteria defined above.

Category B monthly allowance : 500 € / month

700€ will be given at the beginning of the master to the Category B students for the installation costs.


Deadline for on-line applications (Master 2012-2014 session):

For Non-European students : January 23th, 2012

For European students : January 23th, 2012

"Non european students" are students coming from a country other than an eligible applicant country (i.e. a Member State of the European Union, an EEA-EFTA State – Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein), and who are not residents 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 these countries.

Students from Turkey, the Western Balkan countries – Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia.-, or Switzerland are considered as Non european students.

"European students" are students who do not fill the conditions above.

Deadline for the notification of the evaluation results to the candidates (by e-mail) :

Non-European and European students : not already fixed (it was 1st March 2011 for last session)

In order to apply :

1) Download the Application form, and fill in all the required fields. To open it, you can use the spreadsheet software of your choice, for instance OpenOffice Calc that can be freely downloaded here for the standard version, or here for a portable version (Windows only).PLEASE SAVE THIS FORM IN THE EXCEL FORMAT : NO PDF. Do not use the recent .xlsx format.

2) The application procedure is available at the page http://www.europhotonics.org/emundus/. Go to this page to create your personal account, then follow the instructions that are given by the Application Software. The Application Software will collect all the electronic documents that you have to submit (the list of these documents is given below). You can interrupt the submission at any time and resume the submission later. Note that the maximum size of each uploaded document is 6MB. You can submit the pictures and scanned documents in any common format (JPEG, PDF,...) - PDF format is however strongly preferred.

3) You must finish the electronic submission using the “Declaration & Post” menu on the Application Software, otherwise your application will not be validated. When done, you will receive an email with subject "Application form submitted " and with content: "Congratulation you have successfully posted your application form to the EUROPHOTONICS Erasmus Mundus program."

If you are unable to provide one of the asked documents, please upload instead of it a document explaining the reason.

List of the documents you need to collect :

DocumentsElectronically collected by the Application Software
Your profile (online form)to be filed online
Application FormEXCEL format ONLY
Photo
Officially certified copies and translations of your diplomas into English (first university degree and others - do not send secondary school diploma). Selected students will be asked to bring the original diplomas at arrival.In case your current degree is not yet acheived: please upload a letter from your university declaring the expected receiving date, as well as available transcripts.PDF format preferred
Certified English translation of transcripts (BsC or equivalent, and MsC if available)PDF format preferred
Clear copy of passportPDF format preferred
Documentation for language tests (copy of the TOEFL score / IELTS report sheet)PDF format preferred
Letter of motivationPDF format preferred
Recommandation letter of reference 1*PDF format preferred
Recommandation letter of reference 2*PDF format preferred
Up-to-date curriculum vitae (2 pages maximum)PDF format preferred
Other optional documentoptional (pdf preferred)

* In order to submit the recommandation letters, you have 3 possibilities :

  1. If you have it, you can upload the electronic document using the Application Software,
  2. The person who has written the recommandation letter can send it electronically to emundus.master@fresnel.fr,
  3. The person who has written the recommandation letter can send it by post mail to the address below.

In cases 2 and 3, instead of the recommandation letter, you will upload a short document telling that your recommandation letter will be directly transmitted to us by [name of the writter of the letter].


Contact :

Nadège GUILLEM
Erasmus Mundus Europhotonics Master
Institut Fresnel - Université Aix Marseille III
Domaine Universitaire de Saint-Jérôme
13397 Marseille Cedex 20
FRANCE

emundus.master@fresnel.fr
tel: +33 491 28 83 26
fax: +33 491 28 80 67


http://www.europhotonics.org/


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