Deadline:
February 16, 2025
Location(s)
Estonia Finland Portugal
Tallinn, Tampere, Lusófona University
Overview
Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s program in the fields of sustainable societies, artificial Intelligence solutions and participatory design.
Details
- Our team: We prioritize sustainable decision-making, integrating ethical considerations and long-term environmental and sociateal benefits into AI development and deployment.
- Our mission: We aim to empower students to use AI for societal good, fostering innovators committed to equity, inclusion, ethics, and sustainability.
- Future Students: If you believe you can think critically and build bridges between different disciplines and sectors, join us!
- Best Universities: AISS students will have a chance to study in 3 European Universities: Tallinn University, Tampere University and Lusófona University.
Artificial Intelligence For Sustainable Societies MA program
Sustainable Information Technologies for Societies project (SITes) implements AISS – Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Societies 120 ECTS Joint Masters programme, including mobility, internships and granting multiple degrees (level 7 in ISCED 2011). The program is designed together with three universities: Tallinn University, School of Digital Technologies; Tampere University, Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences; and Lusófona University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Engineering. In addition, societal NGOs and industry partners such as Citizen OS, Estonian Anthropocene Center NGO, Lääne-Harju municipality, Inspirators!.
The Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Programme (EMJM) in Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Societies focuses on sustainability, artificial intelligence and data-driven decisions, and participatory design methods engaging citizens. After completing the Master’s Programme, students understand and can use a participatory design approach for studying and designing AI and data-driven sustainable solutions for societies.
AISS provides 3 different degrees for its graduates: Tallinn University, Master of Arts in Social Sciences (MA); Lusofona University, Master of Science in Sustainable Information Technologies (MSc); Tampere University, Master of Social Science. All degrees are approved by national agencies, the Estonian Ministry of Education, Portuguese A3ES – Inteligência Artificial para Sociedades Sustentáveis, and Finland Universities credit the programmes.
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The program is designed together with three universities: Tallinn University, School of Digital Technologies; Tampere University, Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences; and Lusófona University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Engineering. In addition, societal NGOs and industry partners such as Citizen OS, Estonian Anthropocene Center NGO, Lääne-Harju municipality, Inspirators!.
The Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Programme (EMJM) in Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Societies focuses on sustainability, artificial intelligence and data-driven decisions, and participatory design methods engaging citizens. After completing the Master’s Programme, students understand and can use a participatory design approach for studying and designing AI and data-driven sustainable solutions for societies.
More about courses
Program details
Interdisciplinary Project-based Learning
The program is taught in English and has a unique organisation of studies with novel hybrid pedagogies and interdisciplinary project course with real clients for integrating contacts between students, industry, companies, start-ups, and cities. The courses include technologies (e.g., virtual reality) for studying, field studies and designing solutions for real industry clients, NGOs, and cities.
Sustainability is a broad concept of equality, human and biodiversity, and the responsibility of us all to enhance environmentally sound solutions is the key to the projects and courses that combine societal, design and technology to solve real-life challenges provided by municipalities, cities, industry and NGOs.
Course Outline
The programme consists of the following academically dependent specialisations, which are studied in parallel in 3 different locations:
- Enrolling in Tallinn, basic studies in sustainable societies, AI and data and design.
- Continuing in Porto with a mix of electives and basic studies.
- Arriving at Tampere, studies are in the form of an Interdisciplinary Project-based course with real clients.
- Last semester focuses on professional placement and master’s thesis and allows students to choose a place from Tampere, Tallinn and Porto for their studies.
Partners
Get to know more about the AISS-programme partners!
- Tallinn University
- Tampere University
- Lusófona University
- Associated Partners
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
Who Are We Looking for?
Creative, visionary, reflective, and technologically interested students will shape the future of our cities, mobility, and well-being by caring for the earth. The programme welcomes students who master the English language, are open-minded, daring, and have a background or strong interest in one of the pillars. We welcome students with various backgrounds, including engineering, information technology, biology, geography, environmental sciences, design, social and humanistic studies, cognitive science, statistics, mathematics, and business and management.
Dates
Deadline: February 16, 2025
Cost/funding for participants
Payment of scholarship and termination of payment
- The amount of the scholarship is 1400 Euros per month.
- The scholarship is paid according to each university’s payments’ schedules each month for the previous month.
- The scholarship is paid if the student has studied for an entire calendar month.
- The scholarship is paid to the account indicated by the student in an email to the admin personnel.
- The students have an obligation to inform the beneficiary as soon as possible of any events or circumstances likely to affect the student agreement.
- A reduction of the scholarship is made if the minimum mobility requirements are not fulfilled (proportionate amount corresponding, for instance, to the missing mobility period of the concerned academic semester).
- The scholarships (and scholarship payments) are suspended if the student is forced to temporarily interrupt the studies and resume the studies afterwards, provided that the EMJM-project funding is still ongoing (payments after the end of the action set out in Mobility tool data sheet, will be ineligible).
Un-save Opportunity
Internships, scholarships, student conferences and competitions.
