Erasmus Mundus

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Erasmus Mundus is the international counterpart of the Erasmus program, which is named after the Dutch scholar Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, who studied in different monastic schools in Europe in the 15th century. 'Mundus' is Latin for world, meaning the name 'Erasmus Mundus programme' stands for the International version of the Erasmus programme. It was created on 5 December 2003, gazetted on 31 December 2003 in the official journal of the European Union and became an official programme on 20 January 2004.<ref> http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/mundus/faq/faq1_en.html ERASMUS MUNDUS FAQs (1&2)</ref>

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[edit] Objectives

The main general objective, from the European Union's Lisbon Strategy, is to make Europe 'the most competitive and knowledge-based economy in the world and a reference for high quality and excellence in education'<ref>http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/static/en/mundus/index.htm EACEA (3)</ref> . There are tens of masters programmes designed to help this happen [1]. Specific objectives are: <ref>http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/mundus/faq/faq1_en.html ERASMUS MUNDUS FAQs (4)</ref>

  • Promoting a European-way oriented higher education.
  • Attracting qualified graduates and scholars from other parts of the world to obtain qualifications and/or experience in the EU.
  • Increasing co-operation between the EU and 'third-country' institutions.
  • Increasing the visibility of European higher education throughout the world.

[edit] Description

In order for a course to be recognised and hosted under the Erasmus Mundus programme, it should be offered by a Consortium of recognised higher education institutions from one of the 27 Member States of the European Union, the EEA-EFTA states (Iceland, Liechtenstein & Norway) or of the candidate countries for accession to the EU (Croatia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Turkey). The 'minimum consortium' has Three higher education institutions coming from three different eligible countries. After being selected under Action 1, this consortium can establish a partnership with at least one higher education institution of a third-country. The minimum duration to attend an Erasmus Mundus Masters Course is one year and the maximum is two years. <ref>http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/static/en/mundus/index.htm#who Erasmus Mundus Actions 1-3</ref>

[edit] EuMAS

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EuMAS class in Munich

EuMAS, a European Masters Course in Aeronautics and Space Technology, is a two-year MSc course in aerospace engineering that was formed under the Erasmus Mundus programme. It started in September 2005 with the first intake of 24 students from 18 different countries.

EuMAS, which is sponsored by the European Space Agency, is offered by five universities: Università di Pisa (Italy), Technische Universität München (Germany), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain), École Nationale Supérieure de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (SUPAERO) of Toulouse (France), and Cranfield University (United Kingdom). <ref> http://eumasa1.googlepages.com EuMAS Alumni</ref>

Intake 1st year Hosting University 2nd year Hosting University
2005 class Università di Pisa (2005) ENSAE-SupAero (2006)
2006 class Technische Universität München (2006) Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (2007)
2007 class Università di Pisa (2007) Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (2008)
2008 class Cranfield University (2008) ENSAE-SupAero (2009)
<ref> http://www.aerospacemasters.org EuMAS official website</ref>

EuMAS maintains an active Alumni Association.

[edit] SpaceMaster

The Joint European Master in Space Science and Techlogy (SpaceMaster) is a similar 120 ECTS masters programme, currently in its third round, offered by 6 universities throughout Europe: Luleå University of Technology (Sweden Coordinating University), University of Würzburg (Germany), Cranfield University (England), Czech Technical University (Czech Republic), Helsinki University of Technology (Finland) and Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (France).

Students spend their first first semester in Germany, the second in Kiruna, Sweden and can chose from all universities for their second year. They will receive two degrees issued from two universities of the consortium, usually one from Luleå and one from the university of choice for the second year or Würzburg in case Luleå is chosen).

Since 2007 this programme is part of the Erasmus Mundus Action 3 Program which led to the creation of the SpaceMaster Global Partnership. This framework allows EU students to do part of their thesis or project work at one of the following partner universities:

  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China
  • Stanford University (SU), USA
  • University of Tokyo (UT), Japan
  • University of Toronto (UT), Canada
  • Utah State University (USU), USA

An alumni programme is currently still in the planning stages.

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