Erasmus Mundus Action 2 (EMA2) Scholarships, Europe

The Erasmus Mundus Action 2 (EMA2) is a co-operation and mobility scheme in the area of higher education co-operation launched by Europe Aid cooperation Office and implemented by the Executive Agency Education, Audiovisual and Culture (EACEA).

The EMA2 objective is to achieve better understanding and mutual enrichment between the European Union and third countries co-operation in the field of higher education through promoting the exchange of persons, knowledge and skills at higher education level. This will be achieved through the promotion of partnerships and institutional co-operation exchanges between European Higher Education Institutions and Third Country institutions and a mobility scheme addressing student and academic exchanges.

More specifically, the EMA2 aims:

To develop higher education teaching and learning capacities of Third countries and regions in areas of policy and practice closely linked to their development priorities, thus contributing to bridge the gap between developing and developed countries, including poverty reduction aspects;
To promote cooperation between sending and hosting institutions, thus mutually enriching the educational environment of both , to share responsibility and accountability for their joint efforts in partnership by facilitating transfer of know-how and good practices;
To enable talented students to benefit linguistically, culturally and educationally from the experience of pursuing academic studies in another country. This will contribute to combat poverty investing in people by developing a pool of well-qualified, open-minded and internationally experienced young women/men as future professionals and leaders, capable of responding to the challenges of the new Global Knowledge Society of a globalised world and of improving governance;
To contribute to provide good students from vulnerable groups (i.e. refugees, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and indigenous populations) with further education and professional development and empowerment for leadership;
To enhance the skills and qualifications of foreign higher education staff so that they can contribute actively towards improvement of quality and pertinence, to university research, to changes in system governance and to innovation of higher education through an institution- based visiting teacher exchange system.
To build the capacity of the administration and public and private sector by participation of their staff in higher education mobility activities (especially through doctorate and post- doctorate activities);
To improve the transparency and recognition of studies and qualifications, in particular by favouring the practical implementation of Common Areas of Higher education triggered by the interest in the “acquis” of the Bologna process.

To enhance in the medium term the political, cultural, educational and economical links between the European Union and Third-countries, promoting common values of respect for human rights, fundamental freedoms, peace, democracy, good governance, gender, equality, the rule of law, solidarity and justice.

Who can participate?

TARGET GROUP 1

Target Beneficiaries: Students and academic staff registered in one of the universities members of the partnership.
Types of mobility: Undergraduate, Master, Doctorate, Post-doctorate, Academic Staff
Countries of mobile individuals: Afghanistan, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Maldives, Philippines, Thailand, China, North Korea.

TARGET GROUP 2

Target Beneficiaries: Asians of the countries of the partnership (Afghanistan, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Maldives, Philippines, Thailand, China, North Korea.) registered at a Higher Education Institution NOT included in the partnership or having obtained a degree or equivalent from an institution in their country (which may be a partner or not). This includes the possibility of providing mobility opportunities to nationals of the Asian countries in the partnership (Afghanistan, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Maldives, Philippines, Thailand, China, North Korea.) who are working in public administration and public and private enterprises.
Types of mobility: Master, Doctorate, Post-doctorate
Countries of mobile individuals: Asian countries of the partnership: Afghanistan, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Maldives, Philippines, Thailand, China, North Korea.

TARGET GROUP 3

Target Beneficiaries: Asians of the countries of the partnership (Afghanistan, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Maldives, Philippines, Thailand, China, North Korea.) in vulnerable situations. It may cover mobility for students holding the respective nationality and:
- having a refugee status or asylum beneficiaries (international or according to the national legislation of one of the European recipient countries) or
- it can be proved that they have been the object of unjustified expulsion from university on racial, ethnic, religious, political, gender or sexual inclination reasons or
- they belong to an indigenous population targeted by a specific national policy.
Types of mobility: Undergraduate, Master
Countries of mobile individuals: Asian countries of the partnership: Afghanistan, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Maldives, Philippines, Thailand, China, North Korea.

Note:

In order to be an elegible candidate, you must have not resided nor have carried out their main activity (studies, work, etc) for more than a total of 12 months over the last five years in one of the European countries.
No student, and no academic staff member can benefit from more than one mobility activity within the same project.
Mobility flows for student and academic staff between institutions in the Asian countries of the partnership are NOT eligible. Mobility must go from Asia(Afghanistan, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Maldives, Philippines, Thailand, China, North Korea.) to Europe.

DEADLINE: January 31st 2011, 00:00 hr CET (Central European Time)

Visit http://emasiaregional.com/

Disclaimer: Every effort has been made to ensure the above information is current and correct. However, applicants should contact the appropriate administering body before making an application, as details do change frequently.

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Erasmus Mundus Action 2 (EMA2) Scholarships, Europe

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