MSc
OpSciTech is a unique European Master’s Course providing a
comprehensive and multidisciplinary coverage of the field of Optics,
from upstream scientific aspects to engineering and applications in
major sectors of the economy.
Offered by six top-level
academic partners in five countries, it receives financial support from
the European Commission and is supported by major industries such as
Alcatel-Lucent, Philips, Saint-Gobain, Thales, Zeiss or ASML.
OpSciTech is one of the Master
Courses selected by the prestigious Erasmus Mundus framework of the
European Commission through which students from non-European Union
countries are eligible for two-year grants of € 24,000 per year. For
2010/2011, a total of 10 Erasmus Mundus grants are available for these
students ("general category") and additionally 1 or 2 specifically for
students from "special windows", namely Western Balkans and Turkey. EM
grants are awarded on the basis of merit by the European Commission
under proposition of the OpSciTech board.
Students from non-EU countries are defined as:
* nationals coming from all countries other than the 27 EU Member States
* who are not residents of any of the above countries
*
who have not carried out their main activities (studies, work, etc.)
for more than a total of 12 months over the last five years in any of
the above countries.
Admission requirements and criteria
Applications for OpSciTech are jointly handled by all partners of the consortium on this website.
Applicants
should have a BSc or BEng comprising significant exposure to physics
and optics fundamentals. Other criteria to be taken into account are
awards, external references, details of earlier projects, and proof of
English proficiency.
APPLICATION CHECK-LIST: documents to be upoladed
Please upload the following
documents in .pdf format on the Application extranet (during
application period: see calendar & deadlines) :
1) CV,
2) letter of motivation,
3) scans of pages 2-3 of passport,
4) birth certificate,
5) transcripts of marks,
6) English test scores,
7) degrees and diplomas,
8) 2 letters of recommendation (to be directly uploaded into your online application file by your referees).
We stress the fact that only .pdf documents are acceptable.
Moreinfo: http://www.master-optics.eu