The European Union invites applications for the Master in Research and Innovation in Higher Education – MARIHE (Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree) in 2020
Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degrees aim to foster excellence, innovation, and internationalisation in HEIs; to boost the attractiveness of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and support the EU’s external action in the field of higher education; and to improve the level of competences and skills of Master graduates and their employability.
The Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) manages EU funding for education, culture, audiovisual, sport, citizenship and volunteering; among them the action of Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degrees.MARIHE is supported by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union (EU) under the action of an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree (EMJMD). The consortium includes: Danube University Krems/Austria (coordinator), University of Tampere/Finland, Beijing Normal University/China, Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences/Germany, Eötvös Loránd University/Hungary, and Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology (deemed to be University)/India.
MARIHE is a four-semester (two-year) Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree programme (EMJMD). Its mobility scheme includes a mandatory mobility period to a third country full partner, as all MARIHE students spend a lecture period (in the 3rd semester) either at consortium partner Beijing Normal University in China or Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology in India. Therefore, the scholarship scheme for MARIHE is the following:
Worth of Award
Contribution to participation costs
- for a scholarship holder from Erasmus+ PARTNER countries (“category A”): 6 000 € per year
- for a scholarship holder from Erasmus+ PROGRAMME countries (“category B”): 4 500 € per year. In addition to that, MARIHE consortium will apply a fee waiver for the remaining participation costs.
This means that, for both types of scholarship holders, the Erasmus Mundus scholarship covers all participation costs in MARIHE (12 000 € for the whole programme/two years).
Contribution to travel and installation costs
The contribution to travel and installation costs takes into account the country of residence of the scholarship holder at the time of application to the EMJMD. (As a proof of residence, MARIHE Consortium may ask from applicants residence certificates and/or certificates regarding the applicant’s occupational or educational situation.)
- for a scholarship holder who is resident of an Erasmus+ PROGRAMME Country: 1 000 € travel costs per year
- for a scholarship holder who is resident of an Erasmus+ PARTNER Country whose location is less than 4 000 km away from the Higher Education Institution (HEI) coordinating the EMJMD (in the case of MARIHE, this is Danube University Krems, Austria): 2 000 € travel costs per year plus a one-time payment of 1 000 € installation costs at the beginning of the EMJMD
- for a scholarship holder who is resident of an Erasmus+ PARTNER Country whose location is more than 4 000 km away from the Higher Education Institution (HEI) coordinating the EMJMD (in the case of MARIHE, this is Danube University Krems, Austria): 3 000 € travel costs per year plus a one-time payment of 1 000 € installation costs at the beginning of the EMJMD
Contribution to subsistence costs (“monthly allowance”)
- for all scholarship holders: 1 000 € per month for the entire duration of the EMJMD study programme (for MARIHE: at least until graduation; 24 months maximum)
- Notice: Contribution to subsistence costs will not be given to scholarship holders for the EMJMD periods (study/research/internship placement/thesis preparation) spent in their country of residence, nor to scholarship holders from a Erasmus+ Partner Country for the EMJMD periods exceeding 3 months spent in any Erasmus+ Partner country.
All scholarship holders will receive an insurance meeting the minimum insurance requirements of the Erasmus+ programme for EMJMD.
Eligibility
The Erasmus+ Programme offers two categories of scholarships for participating in an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree programme (EMJMD):
A) Scholarships for scholarship holders from Erasmus+ PARTNER countries (scholarships of “category A“) can be awarded to applicants who
- are nationals of a country other than an Erasmus+ PROGRAMME country (see definition below) AND
- who are not residents nor have carried out their main activity (studies, training or work) for more than a total of 12 months over the last five years in one of the Erasmus+ PROGRAMME countries. The “last five years” are defined as the five years preceding the last day of February in the desired year of student intake. For applicants applying for student intake in 2020, this is the period 01 March 2015 to 29 February 2020.
Erasmus+ PROGRAMME countries are defined as the 28 member states of the European Union (EU) plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) and Turkey.
B) Scholarships for scholarship holders from Erasmus+ PROGRAMME countries (scholarships of “category B“) can be awarded to applicants who
- do not fulfil the criteria for scholarship holders from Erasmus+ PARTNER countries defined above.
Students fulfilling the eligibility criteria for both categories – e.g. students with a double nationality – must select the category of their choice. As a result, they are entitled to apply only to one of the two categories of scholarship at a time.
For both categories, the further eligibility criteria apply:
- Students who have already obtained a EMJMD scholarship or an Erasmus Mundus Master Course/Joint Doctorate scholarship are not eligible to apply for an additional scholarship under the EMJMD action.
- EMJMD scholarship holders cannot benefit from another EU funded scholarship scheme to follow the same EMJMD course and this for the entire period of the course.
- Students can apply for an EMJMD scholarship to any of the Erasmus+ Erasmus Mundus courses of their choice, but are limited to a maximum of three different joint programmes per academic year.
How to Apply
- MARIHE only accepts electronic applications submitted through their MARIHE application database
- After you have entered all your personal data and uploaded your application documents in the MARIHE application database, i.e. have submitted your application, you will receive an acknowledgement of receipt by e-mail (sent to the e-mail address you entered into the application database). For technical reasons, this acknowledgement of receipt may take some time.
- Your application is then checked for eligibility. You will receive a notice via e-mail:
- either your application is declared eligible, or
- your application will be rejected due to formal reasons, if you do not meet our admission requirements or if the application documents are incomplete or do not comply with the formal requirements.
- Eligible applications will be reviewed ongoing and as soon as possible by members of the MARIHE Consortium, according to our assessment criteria. Based on this review, the MARIHE Admission Board will select applicants for participation and inform all candidates.
- Successful candidates will be offered a study place and will be asked to submit further documents necessary for their admission.
- Please note that being selected does in no way guarantee admission to the programme, as for the admission process, the timely submission of further (paper) documents is needed.
- If documents are not submitted in time, or if the outcome of the admission process is that documents do not comply with admission requirements, the study place offer will be withdrawn.
Deadline: Applications close December 03, 2019 at 11:00 p.m. Central European Time).