Deadline:
January 08, 2025
Location(s)
Finland Italy Spain Sweden
Turku, L'Aquila, Palma, Västerås
Overview
The Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree Programme on the Engineering of Data-intensive Intelligent Software Systems (EDISS) offers a unique Master Programme focussing on the engineering of quality-driven data-intensive intelligent software systems. The next generation of applications will be the result of multiple worlds colliding: when application development meets artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things and big data analytics, intelligent systems are the outcome. The future of software is being driven by intelligent systems, that continually learn from user interactions and other data sources to become even more relevant and useful. EDISS education specifically targets the need for experts who are both fluent in dealing with and understanding the unstructured big data and capable to integrate data science and ML solutions into software and system engineering processes.
Details
EDISS is an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree (EMJMD) programme jointly delivered by Åbo Akademi University, University of the Balearic Islands, University of L’Aquila and Mälardalen University. You can read more on Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degrees on the European Commission website.
In the age of data explosion, scientists are dealing with massive magnitude of unstructured, complex data which contain unprecedented amount of decrypted information which in turn can facilitate the breakthrough data-driven discoveries and predictions. At the same time software and system engineers focus their attention on the engineering process of software, therefore collecting requirements and building system architectures that, more and more, deal with data collections and management.
EDISS promises to bridge the gap between data science and software engineering by bringing together data scientists and software engineers in order to engineer data-intensive intelligent software systems.
EDISS will educate experts who can masterfully integrate data science and ML solutions into software and system engineering processes.
Programme
EDISS intends to bring together software engineering educators working in data collection, data-driven assessment, and decision-making for both design- and runtime and software engineers, architects and data scientists working on data pipelines, data architectures, DataOps and in experimentation systems. We expect that such synergy will lead to sharing knowledge and expertise, and thus create new ideas and impactful solutions.
Programme Design
EDISS is a two-year programme (120 ECTS) based on the collaboration between four university partners. Åbo Akademi University is the entry university for all students and in the second year the students will follow their individual mobility path within one of the three specializations provided by EDISS. For each student the choice of the second year institution will be decided, in the second semester of the first year, by the EDISS selection committee based on the student’s list of preferences, his or her academic performance and the teaching staff input.
All students completing the EDISS programme will obtain a double master’s degree from Åbo Akademi University and the institution chosen for the second-year specialization.
In addition to the mandatory and elective courses offered in the programme, EDISS students will participate in a one-week winter school organized each year during the second semester of the academic year. The programme also includes a mandatory internship for first-year students with an associate company.
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
Student background and eligibility: EDISS requires knowledge of basic computer science, software engineering, and applied mathematics. The student should be able to solve basic computer science problems, to build a given software artefact (e.g., a requirements model, a design model), to improve and fix a given design.
The student should be eager to learn new technologies and methods, instead of only working with technologies or methods they have prior knowledge of, and capable of sharing and producing knowledge in a team.
The programme is open to students that meet the following admission requirements:
- A Bachelor’s or equivalent undergraduate degree (180 ECTS) from an accredited university, in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent subjects. If proof of qualification is not available at the time of application, such students will be provisionally assessed and required to submit said proof by July 2021 to finalize the admission procedure. We expect the applicant to have passed courses in several of these areas: computer science (e.g., programming, algorithms and data structures), basic computer architecture, computer networks, software engineering and mathematics.
- An English proficiency test: all applicants (note the exceptions below) are required to have adequate results in an English language proficiency test (IELTS or TOEFL) with a minimum score of IELTS 6.5 (with no individual score bellow 6) or TOEFL iBT 93. The test results must be valid and verifiable at the test organizer at least 14 days after the end of the application period.
An English-language test scores is NOT required if you have received your secondary education in English or have completed a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree with English as the language of instruction (and mentioned in your diploma), in a university or university level institution in one of the following countries:
- Australia
- Canada
- Ireland
- New Zealand
- the United Kingdom
- the United States
- an EU/EEA country or
- Switzerland
Note that degrees completed as distance education or studies on an off-shore campus are not accepted even though the degree would be issued by a university in one of the countries listed above.
Dates
Deadline: January 08, 2025
Cost/funding for participants
Erasmus Mundus scholarships
EDISS offers very attractive scholarship opportunities to allow all students with outstanding academic background to join our programme. Applications to the EDISS program and for Erasmus Mundus scholarships are completed simultaneously through one single online application.
The scholarships are available for non-EU and EU students, and the total amount of the scholarship varies according to the students’ nationality and place of residence. The EDISS participation cost is covered by the Erasmus Mundus scholarship through the participation costs for two years (24 months). Moreover, Erasmus Mundus scholarship holders will get subsistence, travel and installation costs as outlined below.
Un-save Opportunity
Internships, scholarships, student conferences and competitions.
