Application 2019-2020

Deadline:

June 28 2019 - H. 17,00 (ITALIAN TIME - UTC +1H)

THE ON-LINE PROCEDURE IS OPEN! APPLY NOW

General provisions

In the framework of the IMQP partnership agreement, the Università degli Studi di Ferrara announces a call for applications to enrol in the “Quaternary and Prehistory” International Master (IMQP) for the academic year 2018/2019. The Master is made is ground on the partnership between the following higher education institutions: Università degli Studi di Ferrara, (Italy) - Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris (France), Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarrragona (Spain) and Instituto Politécnico de Tomar (Portugal).

The selected students will be enrolled in the first year of the master’s course in “Quaternary and Prehistory” and they will be required to pay registration fees (1.500 €/year). The training is scheduled for 2 years and award the joint degree signed by all the partners Institutions representatives.

The partners institutions have applied to the new call “Key Action 1 - Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degrees (EAC/A03/2018)” and, if the project is funded, the ranking list issued by this call will be used for the EACEA scholarships attribution.

Admission requirements

The call for applications is open to each graduate student who:

1. has already obtained one of the higher education degrees listed below, or a foreign higher education degree which is legally equivalent:

a degree obtained after a higher education course of at least three years length, in one of the following disciplines: history + literature (letters), biological sciences, heritage studies, communication, earth sciences, education, environmental sciences, history, tourism, conservation and restoration, cultural and ethnological anthropology, archaeology, geography, tourism management, education management, natural sciences, geology, ancient history, information studies (techniques and methods).

2. has a knowledge of English or French language at least equivalent to FCE – First Certificate level of Cambridge Certification System for English and to DELF level of French Ministry of National Education for French (B2 level of Council of Europe).

Scholarships

The IMQP consortium will ensure a mobility scholarship to all students enrolled to the IMQP master. The compulsory mobility will be performed during the II^nd year and will have a duration within 4 and 6 months (based on the student’s specific study track). Additional scholarships may eventually be funded by the IMQP Consortium.

ONLY if the IMQP consortium will be awarded by the EACEA under the programme “Key Action 1 - Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degrees (EAC/A03/2018)”, scholarships will be distributed, according to the project rules, as follow:

3 scholarships for Programme country students – awarded to any masters’ students selected by EMMC consortia and coming from countries participating fully in the Erasmus+ programme. To do so, they set up a National Agency and contribute financially to the programme. The 33 Programme Countries are: the 28 EU Member States, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Turkey. – the number and the amount of the awarded scholarships will depend on the founds provided by the partner institutions;
6 scholarships for Partner country students - awarded to master students selected by EMMC consortia who come from the other countries in the world;
5 scholarships to students coming from Heading 4 & EDF (ACP countries)

IF YOU NEED MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: marta.arzarello@unife.it

THE NUMBER AND AMOUNT OF SHOLASHIP STILL NEED TO BE CONFIRMED