--- On Tue, 2/10/09, Longgena Ginting <longgenagint...@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Longgena Ginting <longgenagint...@gmail.com>
Subject: [cumakita] EU Fellowships for SE-Asia
To: cumak...@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 12:46 PM
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Subject: EU Fellowships for SE-Asia
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 02:43:00 -0600
From: Dinand Alkema <alk...@itc.nl>
Reply-To: Water Issues Announcement List <wate...@lists. iisd.ca>
To: Water Issues Announcement List <wate...@lists. iisd.ca>
Dear Water-l subscribers
A new EU-scholarship opportunity has become available for residents in
South-East Asia (for list of eligable countries, see below)
Deadline for application is 28 Febr. 2009.
We are very pleased to announce that ITC was selected to be a European
Partner in this so-called EMMA programme (Erasmus Mundus Mobility with
Asia)
ITC - the International Institute for Geo-Information Science and
Earth Observation - offers courses in Applied Earth Sciences
(including disaster studies e.g. floods, landslides, erosion), water
resource management, natural resources, urban planning, earth
opbeservation and geo-information science.
The EMMA program profides funding opportunities for students,
researchers and academic staff to take part in 'mobilities' between
the target group countries and the EU. The programme offers study
scholarships to attend courses at Master of Science level, pursue
PhDs, Post Doctoral research and to facilitate academic staff
exchange.
Eligable countries are: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia,
China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar/Burma, Nepal,
North Korea, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Thailand.
For more information on the EMMA program and the other European
partners, I refer to the EMMA home-page: http://math. unice.fr/ EMMA
For the training opportunities at ITC, I refer to our ITC-EMMA page
http://www.itc. nl/external/ emma/fields. htm
Please note that the Hazard and Disaster related trainings fall under
the program Applied Earth Sciences (section "Geography and Geology")
Applicants affiliated with one of the Asian partner institutes (see
below) can apply as "target group 1"; Nationals of the EMMA-countries
can apply as "target group 2"; - Students living in a vulnerable
situation in EMMA-countries can apply as "target group 3" (see EMMA
website for details)
The Asian Consortium Partners are: Ahsanullah University of Science
and Technology (Bangladesh) ; BRAC University (Bangladesh) ; University
of Dhaka (Bangladesh) ; Royal University of Phnom Penh (Cambodia);
Jadavpur University (India); NED University of Engineering &
Technology (Pakistan); Ateneo de Manila University (Philippines) ;
University of the Philippines- Diliman (Philippines) .
I hope you'll find this opportunity interesting; please forward this
message to anyone else you think may be interested.
With kind regards,
Dinand Alkema
