[Netherlands] EMMA Scholarships for Master, PhD, and Postdoctoral Research

We are very pleased to announce that ITC was selected to be a European Partner in this so-called EMMA programme (Erasmus Mundus Mobility with Asia)

ITC - the International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation - offers courses in Applied Earth Sciences (including disaster studies e.g. floods, landslides, earthquakes) , water resource management, natural resources, urban planning, earth opbeservation and geo-information science.

The EMMA program profides funding opportunities for students, researchers and academic staff to take part in ‘mobilities’ between the target group countries and the EU. The programme offers study scholarships to attend courses at Master of Science level, pursue PhDs, Post Doctoral research and to facilitate academic staff exchange.

Eligable countries are: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar/Burma, Nepal, North Korea, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Thailand.

Fields of Study

1. Agricultural sciences
* Agriculture
* Forestry
* Tropical/Subtropical Agriculture
2. Architecture, urban and regional planning
* Urban Planning and development
* Regional Planning and development/Rural development
* Infrastructure development
3. Engineering (all branches)
4. Geography, geology
* Geography
* Environmental Sciences
* Geology
* Soil and Water Sciences
5. Informatics, Computer Science
6. Natural Sciences
7. Good governance

For more information on the EMMA program and the other European partners, I refer to the EMMA home-page:

http://math.unice.fr/EMMA

For the training opportunities at ITC, I refer to our ITC-EMMA page:

http://www.itc.nl/external/emma/fields.htm

Deadline for application is 28 Febr.!

Please note that the Hazard and Disaster related trainings fall under the program Applied Earth Sciences (section “Geography and Geology”)

Applicants affiliated with one of the Asian partner institutes (see below) can apply as “target group 1?; Nationals of the EMMA-countries can apply as “target group 2?; - Students living in a vulnerable situation in EMMA-countries can apply as “target group 3? (see EMMA website for details)

The Asian Consortium Partners are:

* Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology (Bangladesh)
* BRAC University (Bangladesh)
* University of Dhaka (Bangladesh)
* Royal University of Phnom Penh (Cambodia)
* Jadavpur University (India)
* NED University of Engineering & Technology (Pakistan)
* Ateneo de Manila University (Philippines)
* University of the Philippines- Diliman (Philippines)

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