Convocatòria MERIT / ERASMUS-MUNDUS 2006/2007 SCHOLAR SCHOLARSHIP CALL

Convocatòria MERIT / ERASMUS-MUNDUS 2006/2007 SCHOLAR SCHOLARSHIP CALL

This is the call forapplications to the Erasmus-Mundus scholar scholarships for MERIT(European Master of Research on Information and CommunicationTechnologies, see http://www.meritmaster.org).

MERIT is a European 2-year post-graduate programme taught in English at the following top-level institutions:

- Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain

- Universität Karlsruhe (UKA), Karlsruhe, Germany

- Politecnico de Torino (PdT), Torino, Italy

- Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain, Belgium

These scholarships are addressed for top non-European scholars willing tocarry outteaching and research assignments and scholarly work in theMERIT programme in one of the above institutions in the academic year2006-07.

The application deadline is February 1st 2006.

This call is subject to the general conditions of the Erasmus Mundus programme. In any disagreement between
thecontents of these pages and those of the Erasmus Mundus programme, thelatter will prevail. Prospective applicants are referred to thefollowing pages:

General Information about the Erasmus Mundus programme:

http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/programmes/mundus/index_en.html

FAQs about Erasmus Mundus Scholarships:

http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/programmes/mundus/faq/index_en.html

We would appreciate if you can distribute this information to potential applicants.

The details of the MERIT/Erasmus-Mundus scholarship call follow.

FRAMEWORK

MERIT is a research oriented Master programme within the guidelines of the Bologna process whos escope is Information and Communication Technologies.The MERIT partners above have specific funding from the EU ErasmusMundus programme to set up a scholarship scheme for third-country graduate students and scholars from the whole world.

ELIGIBILITY

Applicants should qualify as ?third-country nationals?, as defined in the ErasmusMundus programme, that is nationals coming from all countries otherthan the 25 EU Member States (Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark,Spain, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, the UK, Sweden, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary,Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia), the EEA-EFTA states (Island, Liechtenstein and Norway) and the candidate countries for accession to the EU (presently Bulgaria,Romania and Turkey), who are not residents of any of the above countries, and who have not carried out their main activities (studies,work, etc.) for more than a total of 12 months over the last five years in any of the above countries.

APPLICATION-SUBMISSION

Application for MERIT-Erasmus Mundus has to be done in two steps:

•     First the personal data and supporting documents have to be sent by email to fabregas@tsc.upc.edu . Only PDF, JPG and GIF formats will be allowed.
•     Oncestep (1) is complete, the paper originals of academic certificates, recommendation letters, etc. have to be sent to the MERIT admissions office for validation.

Application should include:

•         Communications services and systems (Network Management, Mobile Comm., Comm. for Monitoring & Control?)
•         Signal Processing (SP for Comm., Speech and Audio Processing, Image and Video Processing, Multichannel Processing...)
•         High Frequency Devices and Systems (Antennas, Microwaves, Radar, Remote Sensing, Wave Propagation?).
•         Photonics (Optical fibre comm. & related technologies, lasers, photo receivers, radar laser?)

and optionally

Your application will not be valid unless you send the paper originals of the electronic documents uploaded in points 5-6 to the MERIT admissions office.

Your optional information uploaded in points 9 and 10 will notbe considered unless you send the paper originals of the electronicdocuments uploaded to the MERIT admissions office. Please note that recommendation letters should be sent separately by the person makingthe recommendation. Alternatively, the letters can be included with the other paper documents provided that they are in a closed envelope bearing the signature of the person making the recommendation.

Your optional information entered in point 8 will not be considered unless you send supporting documents to the MERIT admissions office.

Applications should be sent to:

Step 1: Bye-mail:

Dr. Xavier Fabregas

fabregas@tsc.upc.es

Step 2: By courier:

MERIT Admissions office

Secretaria de Doctorat TSC

Campus NordUPC, D4

c/ JordiGirona 1

Barcelona 08034

Spain

SELECTION CRITERIA

Scholars will be selected on the basis of their CVs, study and academic merits, motivation, recommendations, language skills (English), etc.

DURATION AND AMOUNT OF THE SCHOLARSHIP

Scholarships will be awarded for three months. The scholar will receive 3 monthly grants of 4,000 Euro and a fixed amount of 1,000 Euro for fees, travel expenses, relocation costs, etc. for a total of 13,000 Euro.

CALENDAR

Application deadline: February 1st 2006.
MERIT studies: Academic year 2006-07.