Erasmus Mundus Masters Program in Geospatial Technologies, Grants for Students and Visiting Scholars [Europe]

Erasmus Mundus Masters Program in Geospatial Technologies, Grants for Students and Visiting Scholars, Europe
The University of Münster, Germany, University Jaume I, Spain, and New University of Lisbon, Portugal, provide a new Masters Program in Geospatial Technologies. The English-taught Masters program has been approved in the educational program of excellence of the European Union ERASMUS MUNDUS.

The program targets international applicants from NON-EU countries and will provide:
15-20 grants for non-EU students (35.600, for the entire Masters program of 18 months)
3-4 grants for non-EU visiting researchers/scholars (13.000, for four months of teaching and research)

Application deadline: January 15, 2009.

Students - the Masters program addresses holders of Bachelor degrees in APPLICATION AREAS of Geographic Information, such as Geography, Environmental Planning, Regional Planning, Transportation/Logistics, Agriculture, Forestry, Retailing/Marketing , etc., and/or

Researchers (visiting scholars) with high-level academic achievements in the field of Geographic Information. The additional know-how and experience 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 adminstrations, especially in cadastre and different types of planning (e.g., regional, traffic, ecology).

For further information, please see http://geotech.uni-muenster.de