Engineering | Scholarship for Nigerians and Africans - Part 244

Erasmus Mundus Master in Technology, Heritage, Territories Industry: History, Valorisation, Didactic(TPTI)

TPTI (Techniques, Heritage, Industry Territories): scientific quality in service training in technology history, heritage and areas of the industry.

Master TPTI is a inter-university diploma which is coordinated by the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, in collaboration with two other European universities, the University of Evora in Portugal and the University of Padua in Italy.

This diploma is the Erasmus Mundus program established by the European Commission to make Europe a pole of excellence in training and research capable of attracting the best students at European universities and researchers worldwide.

Master Erasmus Mundus TPTI offers training in two years, and is designed for students or professionals wishing to develop in methodology, theory and practical heritage. It focuses on both historical analysis and analysis of land and give it an extra dimension of pure research and action research. Thus, it leads to either a doctoral or professional applications (expert, consulting, business culture). Each candidate selected by the Consortium received a grant from the European Commission.

TPTI remains on the account that hundreds of Masters Erasmus Mundus European Commission, one of the few degrees that are aimed at the Francophone world and which makes French the main language of work, even though English is accepted as second language.

TPTI training is designed to provide its students with knowledge of high scientific quality, while enabling them to gain practical experience through internships, learning multiple languages (English, French, Portuguese and Italian) and mobility through various European and non-Europeans who prepare research or professional life.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 31 January 2011

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EUROPHOTONICS Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate Program 2011: Photonics Engineering, Nanophotonics and Biophotonics

The Joint Doctorate Program on Photonics Engineering, Nanophotonics and Biophotonics is dedicated to address recent challenges of one of the most expanding fields in physics and material sciences. This doctorate program is based on a consortium of excellence research institutes and universities in the field : Paul Cézanne Aix Marseille III University / Institut Fresnel (France), Universität Karlsruhe (TH) / Karlsruhe School of Optics & Photonics (Germany), Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, ICFO (Insitut de Ciences Fotoniques) (Spain), and Universita degli Studi di Firenze / LENS (European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy) (Italy). The goal of the program is to involve doctorate students in cutting-edge research projects profiting from the complementarity between the five partners, and from a wide range of research training and teaching plans that includes fundamental and general sciences, technology, languages and communication, research and industrial management, technology transfer, career exploratory support, international meetings, workshops and conference participation. Several key issues will be implemented to bring to the students a complete and valuable training : co-supervision, exchanges within the local and the international research environment, training in working methods in technical, scientific and management issues, communication and regular scientific presentations at local and international scales.
This program is dedicated to students with a masters in Physics, Engineering, Optics and Photonics, Biology, Biotechnologies, Nanosciences, selected based on their scientific level and the identified project proposed within the consortium. The students will work under a co-tutelle supervision in at least two collaborative laboratories among the partners. At least one semester will be spent in each of the co-supervising institutions. The students will have to demonstrate excellent research and follow two weeks of training units per semester to obtain a doctorate multiple diploma after their thesis defense.
The doctorate projects will focus on advanced research in Photonics and interdisciplinary applications. PhD students will then be able to pursue a career on today’s new challenges in either academic or applied research :

monitoring and controlling matter and optical phenomena at the ultimate nanometric scale,
providing new imaging tools for fundamental understanding of biological processes and clinical applications,
bringing original tools in line with future optical devices.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 24 January 2011

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PhD Scholarship in Biological Sciences, Australia: Biosphere Dynamics(Ecology and Evolution)

Biosphere Dynamics (Ecology and Evolution)
Employer: Macquarie University
Level: PhD
Scholarship Description: A full-time PhD scholarship is available in Biological Sciences in the CORE area of Ecology and Evolution at Macquarie University.

Project Name: Biosphere Dynamics
Possible research topics might include:

  • Global bioclimatology: analysis of present and modelled past and future changes in key variables influencing the distribution of terrestrial organisms
  • Fundamentals of primary production: synthesis of relevant observations and testing of alternative global models for natural ecosystem and crop productivity
  • Global water resources assessment: coupling river routing and land-surface process models for present and future applications
  • Large-scale data analysis of quantitative plant traits as a basis for a new generation of dynamic global vegetation models

Candidates should have a good undergraduate degree with first class honors or equivalent, in a relevant subject. Students with physical science backgrounds are particularly encouraged to apply. Demonstrated aptitude for independent research (eg. a good Masters project), and quantitative and computational skills, are required.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 31 January 2011

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