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Thursday, January 1, 2009

Europe: Erasmus Mundus Masters Program in Geospatial Technologies, Grants for Students and Visiting Scholars

Erasmus Mundus Masters Program in Geospatial Technologies, Grants for Students and Visiting Scholars, Europe

The University of Münster, Germany, University Jaume I, Spain, and New University of Lisbon, Portugal, provide a new Masters Program in Geospatial Technologies. The English-taught Masters program has been approved in the educational program of excellence of the European Union ERASMUS MUNDUS. The program targets international applicants from NON-EU countries and will provide:


15-20 grants for non-EU students (35.600, for the entire Masters program of 18 months)
3-4 grants for non-EU visiting researchers/scholars (13.000, for four months of teaching and research)
Application deadline: January 15, 2009.

Students - the Masters program addresses holders of Bachelor degrees in APPLICATION AREAS of Geographic Information, such as Geography, Environmental Planning, Regional Planning, Transportation/Logistics, Agriculture, Forestry, Retailing/Marketing , etc., and/or

Researchers (visiting scholars) with high-level academic achievements in the field of Geographic Information. The additional know-how and experience in Geospatial Technologies qualifies for a professional career in the following domains:

Private sector: GI applications and consulting in the domains of regional planning, landscape planning, financial services industry, energy providing industry, transportation, agriculture and forestry, and retailing/marketing.

Research: Applied sciences at universities and other research institutions

Public sector: GI applications and consulting in local and regional adminstrations, especially in cadastre and different types of planning (e.g., regional, traffic, ecology).

For further information, please see http://geotech.uni-muenster.de

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