Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies, Erasmus Mundus, Europe

Deadline: 15 January 2o12
Open to: holders of a Bachelor’s degree with a qualification in application areas of Geographic Information (GI), e.g., environmental planning, regional planning, geography, logistics, transportation, marketing, energy provision, computer science
Salary: € 34.000 for two years for the category A and € 17.000 for two years for the category B

Description

Geographic Information is a rapidly growing economical sector: it is suggested, that 80 % of all decisions in Economy and Politics have a spatial relation. The goal of the Masters program in Geospatial Technologies is to form specialists able to carry out a wide variety of geospatial projects in industry and academics. The Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies qualifies for a professional career in the following domains:

• Private sector: GI applications and consulting in the domains of regional planning, landscape planning, financial services industry, energy providing industry, transportation, agriculture and forestry, and retailing/marketing;
• Research: Applied sciences at universities and other research institutions;
• Public sector: GI applications and consulting in local and regional administrations, especially in cadastre and different types of planning (e.g., regional, traffic, ecology).

The international Masters program (Master of Science, M.Sc.) in Geospatial Technologies is a cooperation of:

• Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU), Institute for Geoinformatics (ifgi), Münster, Germany.
• Universitat Jaume I (UJI), Castellón, Dept. Lenguajes y Sistemas Informaticos (LSI), Castellón, Spain.
• Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL), Instituto Superior de Estatística e Gestão de Informação (ISEGI), Lisboa, Portugal

Scholarships

• ~5 financial contributions (Category B) to EU students (in this context nationals or residents (> 1 year) from EU Member States and EEA-EFTA countries).
• ~1 full scholarship each to students from the three “Windows” (a. Western Balkans and Turkey, b. Tunesia and Egypt, c. “Eastern Neighbourhood Countries” (i.e. Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine).
• ~7 full scholarships (Category A) to third country students (other nationals or residents than above).
• ~2 scholarships for third country scholars (visiting researchers), starting ~ September 1, 2012, either in Lisbon, Portugal, or Castellón, Spain.

The amount of the scholarship is € 34.000 for two years for the category A and € 17.000 for two years for the category B.

Eligibility

A requirement for admission is an adequate Bachelor degree of six semesters full time (= 180 ECTS credit points) or more, as recognized by the partner universities in Germany, Portugal, or Spain, for admission to graduate studies. The Master’s program targets holders of a Bachelor’s degree with a qualification in application areas of Geographic Information (GI), e.g., environmental planning, regional planning, geography, logistics, transportation, marketing, energy provision, computer science. Good level of English is a must (a TOEFL certificate (minimum 500 points, paper-based)), or equivalent, is required. Equivalent can be a certificate from other institutions such as IELTS (academics), a previous Bachelor’s or Master’s program entirely taught in English (to be documented), or English as mother tongue.

How to apply?

Students will have to apply in fully compliance to the admission procedure. In order to apply online, please click here. To apply successfully, you need:

• Submission within deadlines
• Parallel application: online via application system, and sending original documents by mail (post-stamped within deadline and to be received one week later at latest)
• Completeness of personal information
• Completeness and correctness of supporting documents:
  • Online application form – to be printed and signed for the paper version to be sent by mail
  • Bachelor diploma including a grade transcript of records, certified (translated to English, Spanish, Portuguese, or French) copy (additonally Masters or other diplomas, if applicable)
  • if English is not the mother tongue: English language proof – (TOEFL, score > 500, paper-based (or equivalent, see above), certified (translated to English, Spanish, Portuguese, or French) copy
  • Motivation letter
  • European format CV
  • Recommentation letters (minimum of 2)
  • Proof of nationality (certified copy of passport)
  • Passport photo
  • List with reference names
  • Other

Contacts

Germany
Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Münster
Weseler Strasse 253, D-48151 Muenster, Germany
ifgi.uni-muenster.de
Dr. Christoph Brox, broxc@uni-muenster.de
– General information about the Master’s program and program coordinator at ifgi –

Spain
Departamento de Leguajes y Sistemas Informáticos (DLSI),
Universitat Jaume I, 12071 Castellón de la Plana, Spain
www.geoinfo.uji.es
Prof. Dr. Joaquín Huerta, huerta@lsi.uji.es
– Program coordinator at UJI –

Portugal
Instituto Superior de Estatística e Gestão de Informação (ISEGI),
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL), Campus de Campolide,
1070-312 Lisboa, Portugal
www.isegi.unl.pt
Prof. Dr. Marco Painho, painho@isegi.unl.pt
– Program coordinator at ISEGI –

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