Deadline:
February 08, 2025
Location(s)
Finland France Germany Lithuania Spain
Marseille, Karlsruhe, Barcelona, Tampere, Vilnius
Overview
Details
The field of optics / photonics, the science of light, is booming and involves a large number of interdisciplinary activities in health, environment, energy, transport, telecommunications with significant economic and societal benefits. Optics / photonics plays a key role in fundamental discoveries and in new technologies, with theoretical and experimental aspects. Photonics is considered by the European Commission as one of the “Key Enabling Technologies (KET)” which are increasingly driving innovation today and will continue to drive innovation in the future.
The EUROPHOTONICS Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree (EMJMD) started in 2010 is a two years Master program focusing on advanced research and applied topics that will constitute the near and extended future scientific goals in the field of Photonics, with interdisciplinary applications. Master students benefiting from this program will be able to work on today’s new challenges in their academic or applied research careers: understand and control matter and optical phenomena at the nanometric scale, provide new imaging and monitoring tools for complex biological processes from cells and tissues to clinical applications, bring new and original tools for future optical devices. After being graduated, the Europhotonics students obtain positions in industries, in research laboratories, in universities worldwide.
Depending on their diploma level, students can join the Master in the first year (M1) or in the second year (local Masters at M2 level).
The Europhotonics master has been selected several times by the European Agency in the framework of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree (EMJM). The partners of the current program are: AMU Marseille, KIT Karlsruhe, the Universities of Barcelona, TAU Tampere-Finland, Vilnius University-Lithuania. Several non European Universities are also partners of the program.
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
The Europhotonics Master in Photonics covers one of the most expanding fields in physics and material sciences, dealing with Photonics Engineering, Biomedical Imaging, Quantum Optics, Lasers, Astronomy, Nanophotonics, Biophotonics and for numerous applications in Microelectronics, Aeronautics, Automotive industry…
This master aims at giving an extensive teaching program from fundamentals to advanced research topics in Photonics and its interdisciplinary applications. Master students benefiting from this program will be able to work on today’s new challenges in their academic or applied research carriers: understanding and control matter and optical phenomena at the ultimate nanometric scale, providing new imaging tools for the most complex biological processes from cells and tissues to clinical applications, bringing original tools in line with future optical devices.
MOBILITY RULES
Mobility is submitted to some rules defined by the European Agency and by the EuroPhotonics Consortium, which restrict the number of places at each partner institutions.
- Students must spend their study periods (30 ECTS courses minimum each) in at least two of the EuroPhotonics Consortium European Universities (Marseille, Karlsruhe, Barcelona, Tampere, Vilnius). Therefore, all the students must spend at least one courses term in a University of the Consortium other than Aix-Marseille.
- At least two of the countries visited during the Master must be different from the country of residence of the student at enrolment stage.
- For Semester 2, for each intake, there should be an equivalent number of EMJMD scholarship holder students in Marseille and Karlsruhe, plus or minus one.
- For Semester 3, for a 17 EMJMD scholarship holders students group, the distribution of the group is carried out on the basis of 5 students in Marseille and 3 students in all other Europhotonics Consortium European Universities.
- Semester 4 (Master Thesis) can only be completed in one of the Europhotonics Partner Universities, Associate Partner Universities or in a company. The Master thesis is always supervised by at least one academic supervisor from an Europhotonics Partner University.
MOBILITY SELECTION
If the number of students willing to spend their Semester at a given University of the Consortium exceeds the number of available places, a selection will be done. Everything will be done in order to meet as much as possible the students’ expectations. However, respecting the mobility rules is mandatory.
The mobility selection is done after the students have entered the program and depends on:
- the students wishes,
- their ranking based on their grades received during Semester 1,
- the wishes of the other students of the intake,
- the number of open seats at each EuroPhotonics Consortium European Universities,
- the mobility rules.
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Eligibility
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Description of Ideal Candidate
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
Academic prerequisites
The students who want to apply to the program at the M1 level must hold a “Bachelor” or “Licence” degree corresponding to, at least, 180 ECTS (validated for European students or Partner countries), in the fields of : physics, optics & photonics, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, physical chemistry, applied physics.
Applicants must possess a solid academic background in the general fields of physics and mathematics (usually a minimum 12 ECTS each during the Bachelor studies).
Most applicants are currently enrolled for their last year or session of a BSc or BEng program or equivalent. In this case, the original version of the diploma will be asked after selection.
Eligibility criteria
Applicants who have already benefited from an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree (EMJM) scholarship are ineligible for an EMJM scholarship.
Language requirements
The tuition language is English. Students are notably expected to produce a Master Thesis in English. A strong command of written and oral English is therefore requested. Applicants will have to demonstrate during application an English language proficiency equivalent to level B2 (TOEFL / IELTS / Duolingo / TOEIC scores or equivalent proof).
- TOEFL (570 paper-based, 250 computer-based, 88 internet-based)
- IELTS (at least 6.5)
- Duolingo (at least 120)
- TOEIC (at least 785)
Dates
Deadline: February 08, 2025
Cost/funding for participants
ERASMUS MUNDUS JOINT MASTER (EMJM) SCHOLARSHIPS
Two years scholarships funded by the European Agency can be obtained after the selection procedure by students who apply for joining the program at the M1 level (1st year). Scholarship candidates must have already obtained a first higher education degree (bachelor) or demonstrate a recognized equivalent level of learning according to national legislation and practices.
For the EMJM scholarships, students are divided in two categories:
- “EU Member States and third countries associated to the Programme” candidates,
- “Third countries not associated to the Programme” candidates.
See the European website for an explanation of these categories.
The EMJM scholarships will be a contribution to the costs incurred by the beneficiary students and shall cover travel, visa, installation and subsistence costs. It is calculated on the basis of a monthly unit cost for the entire period needed by the enrolled scholarship holder to complete the study programme. It corresponds to
1.400 EUR per month for the entire duration of the EMJM study programme (24 months maximum).
This period covers study, research, placement activities, thesis preparation and defence, in line with the requirement of the joint Master. During this period, the scholarship can only be awarded in full, and to full-time students.
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
Individuals who have already benefited from an EMJM scholarship are not eligible for a second scholarship in order to follow the same or another EMJM. Students benefiting from an EMJM scholarship cannot benefit from another Community grant while pursuing their Erasmus Mundus masters studies.
EMJM students scholarships are awarded exclusively for a full-time enrollment in one of the course editions. Geographical balance is taken into account, i.e. no more than 10% of the total number of scholarships awarded during project implementation should be awarded to candidates from the same nationality.
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