European Master for Industry in Microwave Electronics and Photonics (EMIMEP)

EMIMEP project is one of these educational projects which will boost the attractiveness of science, technology and engineering.

In the context of increasing demand for research and industrial applications around these topics, EMIMEP Masters is a concrete solution to improve the number of highly qualified students.

Electromagnetic waves at microwave or optical frequencies, after emission by circuits or light sources, propagate in free space or in waveguides and are then finally detected. Their high frequencies make them perfect information carriers for high-speed communications, and light-wave based technologies are at the core of the twin transitions required to provide the coming digital decade with sustainable solutions.

The academic subjects will include innovative elements to provide the students with advanced knowledge of the most updated and cutting-edge technologies.

The master’s degree curriculum, besides classical subjects, will include modules on recent advances in bidimensional materials like graphene, meta-surfaces, lasers and frequency combs, quantum technologies, energy harvesting, nanoelectronics, nanophotonics, and high-energy physics for new biomedical applications. These modules, based on scientific breakthroughs from the last twenty years (some of them awarded the Nobel Prize), exemplify the transformative power of physics on engineering and related industrial applications.

EMIMEP represent an innovative educational experience through a set of student mobilities

EMIMEP is organized around a first propaedeutic year where all students will be together at the University of Limoges (UNILIM) for the first semester and at the University of Brescia (UNIBS) for the second semester, promoting group cohesion and a sense of belonging.

During the second year, the students, with the same basic knowledge acquired during the M1, can choose from four possible paths at UNILIM, UNIBS, UPV/EHU, and FSU. The fourth semester is fully centred around the master’s thesis. During the two-year programme, a series of invited lecturers will complete the educational offer of EMIMEP both in the form of seminars of visiting scholars and in the form of focus schools such as the Research and Industrial Week in Cluj-Napoca or the summer school at the end of the programme.

EMIMEO strongly increases professional perspectives for the learners.

Training courses for students in microwave electronics and photonics are of fundamental importance to prepare them for future job and PhD vacancies of the next 5-10 years in the following key joint areas.

The experience-based and skills-based innovative teaching methodologies that will be activated for the master will also expedite the advanced training of young engineers and young research scientists, preparing them to candidate in competitive industrial vacancies or PhD positions: note that all partner universities have associated PhD programme and the EMIMEP Master fits perfectly within their internationalisation strategies.

The employability of the graduates will then be reinforced thanks to the skills acquired by the rather unique interdisciplinary EMIMEP training in Europe. Students can have facilitated access to the many jobs and PhD offers made available within the consortium and can also follow a series of initiatives of the different partners coordinated by the joint nature of the programme.

EMIMEP graduate students can be recruited directly by companies or pursue a PhD programme in universities, research institutes or industrial doctorates.