Prospective Students

Admissions are centralised and students must apply through the online application system of the coordinating node, University of Warwick. The system supports full online management of all applications, facilitating equal participation by all the partners.

Selection criteria will include:

• Academic or professional achievement in mathematically based science to degree level, on the basis of actual grades or track record and projections by referees;
• Referee opinion as to suitability for postgraduate study and research;
• Motivation for cross-disciplinary research and our programme in particular;
• Potential to cope with mobility and to benefit themselves and others in the process;
• Sufficient competence in English (deferrable to entry for students with clear plans to improve, such as pre-sessional language course registration or an arranged English-speaking stay).
• For EM scholarships: fit both individually and for the cohort to the distributional constraints of EMMC.

We are committed to reserving appropriately distributed places for our full quota of EMMC Scholarships, and all recruitment will be in accordance with the Equal Opportunities policy of the coordinating node .

Successful candidates will be offered a place to start in September at the Centre whose initial teaching we judge provides the best bridge between their undergraduate background and the programme as a whole. We will also consider student preferences.

Erasmus Mundus Scholarships for Students

Nominees for student scholarships will be prioritised and chosen strictly on the merit of their individual applications to the programme, but subject to the following restrictions of the EU Erasmus Mundus programme:

• no more than two students from the same country can accept EM scholarship offers in the same year of our programme;
• each student can apply for a maximum of three EMMCs at one time;
• nominees cannot previously have held an EM scholarship.

Individual grants will be paid monthly by the coordinating node in Euros, subject to previous Individual Review being satisfactory or more recent reports being acceptable in the case of students ‘on report’. As a result, we must require all students to open Euro-denominated bank accounts.

Prospective Visiting Staff- (Non-EU Scholars):

Non-EU Scholars for consideration must be:

• Enrolled in any third-country HEI who will be selected by the EMMC consortium to contribute to the joint programme within the European partner institutions.
• EMMC scholars must demonstrate outstanding academic and/or professional experience and bring concrete added value to the delivery of the EMMC.

Non-EU Scholars holding an Erasmus Mundus scholarship are required to:

• Commit themselves to actively participate in the masters course activities;
• Spend a minimum of two weeks and a maximum of three months in the partner HEIs;
• Perform teaching/research/student tutoring activities:

• Bring concrete added value to the course and students (through teaching of specific classes, leading and participating in seminars or workshops, monitoring and tutoring student research/project activities, participating in thesis reviews, preparing new teaching modules, etc.)

• Contribute, after their visiting scholar activities, to the promotion and dissemination of the Erasmus Mundus Programme in general, and the EMMC concerned in particular, in their HEI and country of origin.

Those interested in applying should contact a node leader in the first instance