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Erasmus Mundus in Sustainable Teritorial Development

Description

Erasmus Mundus in Sustainable Teritorial Development (STeDe) Master aims to create experts in the area of sustainable territorial development. More concretely it trains professionals to be able to help organizations acting in the territory (enterprises, local communities, civil society organizations) to draft sustainable development policies for economic, social, environmental, international and intercultural management.

The Master concerns the economic competitiveness, social inclusion, environmental protection, international cooperation and intercultural relation challenges of territorial development focusing not only on local communities, but also on enterprises, non-state actors and civil society organizations. It also aims to offer an example of sustainable territory involving all local organizations, which should have human resources available and able to promote sustainable development.

The Master refers to the ability of:

• giving recommendations in the area of sustainable territorial development in the context of climate change and biodiversity loss;
• taking part in the idea, analysis and management of a sustainable development policy on the territory;
• assessing the different validation tools for sustainable development actions and policies within public and private territorial organizations.

Partner Universities:

Università degli Studi di Padova (University of Padua), Italy (UNIPD)
K. U. Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven), Belgium (K.U. Leuven)
Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France (Sorbonne)
Universidade Catolica Dom Bosco, Brazil (UCDB)
 

Eligibility

STeDe Master course is open to non-EU and EU candidates.

Candidates are required to have:

• a first cycle academic degree of at least 3 years – 180 ECTS credits (licenciatura, academic Bachelor degree, diploma di laurea di primo livello, licence) or an equivalent degree (diplôme d’école d’ingénieurs, école de commerce etc.), officially recognized by the national law;
• a good command of English and French, both spoken and written;
• a personal interest on sustainable development;
• a basic knowledge of information and communication technologies;
• a basic knowledge of economics will be appreciated.

Scholarships

For STeDe Master course 2012/14 approx. 10 Erasmus Mundus Scholarships Category A and 8 Erasmus Mundus scholarships Category B are available.

Category A Scholarships for Third-country nationals can be awarded to masters students from all countries other than the 27 EU member states and EEA/EFTA states: Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. Furthermore, candidates must comply with the 12 months rule: they must not be a resident nor have carried out main activity (studies, work etc.) for more than a total of 12 months over the last five years (from 28/02/2007 to 28/02/2012) in one of these European countries.

Contribution to travel, installation and any other type of costs: 4,000 euro per academic year
Contribution to the EMMC participation costs (including insurance coverage): 7,000 euro per academic year
Monthly allowance (during 12 months/year): 1,000 euro

Category B Scholarships for Third-country nationals and for European nationals can be awarded to any masters students who do not fulfil the criteria A defined above, i.e. nationality requirement and 12 months rule.

Contribution to travel, installation and any other type of costs: 3,000 euro only if a mobility period to a third country is foreseen
Contribution to the EMMC participation costs (including insurance coverage): 4,000 euro per academic year
Monthly allowance (during 12 months/year): 500 euro

How to apply?

On-line application form is available here

Download the personal statement (u privitku).

ALL PERSONAL DATA (full name, address, citizenship, etc) MUST CORRESPOND to personal data in your certificates/diplomas/passport.

Selected candidates will be requested to submit by post:

a certified copy of their first cycle degree and their academic transcript of record, translated and legalised by competent authority (please ask for information the Italian Embassy/Consulate in your country: these procedures could required long times);
language tests’ results (if not enclosed to the application).

Deadline for submissions of applications is 31 December, 2012.

Materials

Personal statment (62 kb)