Scholarship Program for international students to pursue their postgraduate programmme in European institutions.
MERIT is a multi-track research oriented Master programme within the guidelines of the Bologna process whose scope is Information and Communication Technologies. MERIT is a European 2-year post-graduate programme taught in English at the following institutions:
Additional Category A student scholarships for students under the Western Balkans and Turkey Window will also be granted.
MERIT Erasmus Mundus Category B student scholarships are addressed for highly qualified European students willing to study the MERIT programme in two of the above institutions beginning September 2011. The number of MERIT Erasmus Mundus Category B student scholarships for the MERIT programme 2011-2013 has not yet been determined.
The MERIT academic program is organized in 3 Areas of Knowledge and their corresponding 9 Specialisation tracks which can be studied in any two of the institutions indicated below:
a) Microwave, Antennas, Remote Sensing and Photonics (UPC, KTH, PdT, KIT, UCL)
Deadline:
Online Application System: 1st December 2010
Deadline for online application: 17:00 (CET) January 11th 2011.
Notification of Scholarships: April-May 2011.
Start of MERIT studies: August-September 2011.
MERIT is a multi-track research oriented Master programme within the guidelines of the Bologna process whose scope is Information and Communication Technologies. MERIT is a European 2-year post-graduate programme taught in English at the following institutions:
- Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain
- Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), formerly University of Karlsruhe, Germany
- Politecnico di Torino (PdT), Torino, Italy
- Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain, Belgium
Additional Category A student scholarships for students under the Western Balkans and Turkey Window will also be granted.
MERIT Erasmus Mundus Category B student scholarships are addressed for highly qualified European students willing to study the MERIT programme in two of the above institutions beginning September 2011. The number of MERIT Erasmus Mundus Category B student scholarships for the MERIT programme 2011-2013 has not yet been determined.
The MERIT academic program is organized in 3 Areas of Knowledge and their corresponding 9 Specialisation tracks which can be studied in any two of the institutions indicated below:
a) Microwave, Antennas, Remote Sensing and Photonics (UPC, KTH, PdT, KIT, UCL)
- Microwaves and RF Circuits and Systems (UPC, PdT, UCL)
- Antennas and EM modelling (UPC, PdT, KIT)
- Remote Sensing and Imaging (UPC, KIT) European Area of Higher Education
- Photonics (KTH, KIT)
- Information Transmission and Wireless Communication Systems (UPC, KTH, UCL)
- Wireless Network Management (KTH, PdT)
- Optical Communication Systems and Networks (UPC, PdT, KIT)
- Image and Video Processing (UPC, UCL)
- Speech and Language Technologies (UPC, KTH)
- Any of the 9 specialization tracks.
- Any of the 3 AoK.
- Indifferent.
Deadline:
Online Application System: 1st December 2010
Deadline for online application: 17:00 (CET) January 11th 2011.
Notification of Scholarships: April-May 2011.
Start of MERIT studies: August-September 2011.