Erasmus Mundus Masters in Lifelong Learning: Policy and Management (MA LLL)

Deadline: 16 January 2012
Open to: Students from Europe and third country students
Scholarship: €48,000 for third country students, covering of tuition fee and living allowance of € 500 per month for European students

Description

The European Masters in Lifelong Learning: Policy and Management (MA LLL) is a multi-site two-year programme, which was established in 2006 under the Erasmus Mundus Scheme. Since then this truly international programme has recruited students and scholars from over 40 countries around the world.
The programme aims at training professionals to develop and implement educational policies concerned with lifelong learning. Graduates of MALLL will be able to promote and manage innovative lifelong learning systems that are suited to the social and organsiational contexts in which they are undertaken.
The Erasmus Mundus Masters Course is provided by three European universities and an Australian university:

• The Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Institute of Education, University of London, London, United Kingdom
• University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain
• Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Australia

In the academic year 2012-2014, all MALLL students with Erasmus Mundus in batch 7 will study the first year at the Danish School of Education in Copenhagen, Denmark. Both self-funded and scholarship European students can opt to study one module of the second semester in July-August 2013 at Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Australia. The third semester will be at Deusto University, Spain. For the fourth semester, students can choose between the three European universities to write their thesis.

Scholarship

There are 2 types of scholarships you can apply for under the The European Masters in Lifelong Learning; Category A and Category B scholarships. Category A scholarships (for third-country students) are worth €48,000 which covers two-year tuition fee of € 16,000 and living allowances to study the MALLL programme.
A category B scholarship (for European students) covers tuition fee and living allowance of € 500 per month for two years.  Additional €3,000 is available for the mobility period in Melbourne. The tuition fee for European students for the entire two-year programme amounts to a maximum of €8,000. As higher education in Denmark is state funded, citizens from the European Union and EEA member states will receive tuition fee waiver for the semester(s) completed at the Danish School of Education, Aarhus University.

Eligibility

Category A scholarships can be awarded to students from all countries other than the 27 EU member states and EEA/EFTA states: Iceland, Lichtenstein, Norway, and the Swiss Confederation. Furthermore, you must comply with the 12 months rule: you must not be a resident nor have carried out your main activity (studies, work, leisure time etc.) for more than a total of 12 months over the last five years in one of these countries. Click here to find out if your country is a ‘third-country’. Category B scholarships can be awarded to any student who do not fullfil the criteria for a Category A scholarship i.e nationality requirement and 12 months rule. In other words, category B scholarship is for the students who live in the countries considered to be an EU-member state or EEA/EFTA state.
To find out more about eligibility criteria and all the other necessary information, please download the Programme Guide for Erasmus Mundus 2009-2013 from this link (you can choose the language which suits you the best).

How to apply?

In order to apply for these scholarships, you need to fill in the application form, which will be available since September 2011. Your application including the following documents must arrive at the Danish School of Education in Copenhagen by the above deadline:

• Application form.
• Certified copies of academics transcripts (translated into English).
• EUROPASS CV.
• English language proficiency test certificate.
• An academic qualification essay based on research literature on any aspect of lifelong learning.
• One passport-size photograph (in an envelope).
• Two recommendation letters from former/current supervisors of which one must be academic referee.

The deadline for Erasmus Mundus scholarship applications for the academic year 2012-2013 is 16 January 2012.
 Selection process

• The applicants who are not selected for the scholarships will receive notification by email in March 2012.
• The scholarship applicants on the main list and reserve list will receive the final results of their applications in early May 2012 after the Consortium has received the final selection approval from the European Commission.
• When a main list student withdraws, he/she is replaced by the first eligible candidate on the reserve list. In this particular case, the eligibility criterion concerns the nationality of the reserve list candidate and the rule concerning the presence of a maximum of two nationals from the same country among the scholarship holders for a given category. If there are already two other students with the same nationality on the main list, the consortium will have to take the next eligible candidate respecting its own ranking list in line with European Commission regulations.

Contacts

Danmarks Pædagogiske Universitetsskole
Aarhus Universitet
Tuborgvej 164
2400 København NV
E-mail: dpu@dpu.dk
Tlf: 8716 1300
Fax: 8716 1301
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