Saturday, March 10, 2012

Erasmus Mundus (Agtrain) Scholarships

Overview

Agricultural Transformation past times Innovation (AgTraIn) is a three-year world-class Joint Doctoral Programme. AgTraIn is business office of the Erasmus Mundus programme initiated past times the European Commission to heighten together with promote European higher instruction throughout the world. The linguistic communication of the programme is English.

AgTraIn has a policy of equal opportunities for men together with women together with people amongst particular needs.

The AgTraIn Objective together with Focus

The chief objective of the AgTraIn programme is to develop an elite European schoolhouse inside the topic of successful evolution together with transformation of farming systems inwards the developing world. Thematically, the AgTraIn programme deals amongst farm production chains, the natural resources base of operations together with the involved communities. The compass of AgTraIn volition hit from the technical aspects of agricultural production, over post-harvest management, processing together with value-addition, to marketplace position access together with commercialisation. H5N1 fundamental characteristic of the programme is the involvement of fundamental stakeholders inwards identifying inquiry questions together with participating inwards projection formulation. The emphasis is on applied research.

The AgTraIn Consortium

The AgTraIn programme provides you lot amongst a unmarried entry-point access to top-level together with up-to-date inquiry on agricultural transformation inside the scientific fields of the programme. The programme is jointly developed together with delivered past times a six-university consortium consisting of



  • University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Universita degli Studi di Catania, Spain
  • University College of Cork, Ireland
  • Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
  • Montpellier SupAgro, France
  • Wageningen University, The Netherlands

PhD degrees

Successful completion of the AgTaIn Programme results inwards a joint degree. An overview of the degrees is presented inwards the tabular array below:
Degree awarding institution
PhD degree
University of Copenhagen
Ph.D - Philosophiae Doctor
PhD - Doctor of Philosophy
Universita degli Studi di Catania
Dottore di Ricerca
Ph.D
University College of Cork
Ph.D (Food Science together with Technology)
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
Programa de Doctorado en Planificacion de proyectos de Desarrollo Rural y Gestion Sotenible

Ph.D programme inwards Planning of Rural Development projects together with Susatinable Management
Montpellier SupAgro
Diplome de doctoeur du Centre international d'etudes superieures en sciences agronomiques
Wageningen University
Doctorate in the champaign of Production Ecology together with Resource Conservation
University of Padova
Ph.D - Philosophiae Doctor
Ph.D - Doctor of Philosophy


Fellowships


Each companionship is made upwards of three components: installation grant, operational funds together with salary. 

The three chief components inwards AGTRAIN EMJD fellowships
Category H5N1 scholarships(36months)             
Category Bscholarships              
(36 months) 
I
Fixed contribution to travel, installation together with whatever other type of costs

€7500

€3000 - if mobility to associated partners
II
Operational funds (participation costs,
insurance coverage, etc.)
€ 21600
€21600
III
Salary

€100800

€100800


Category H5N1 together with B fellowships are identical except that the kickoff are eligible to have 7500 EUR to comprehend go together with installation costs (received inwards 2 installments), whereas Category B fellowships include 3000 EUR to comprehend go together with installation costs when the companionship holder visits an associate partner exterior Europe.

All AGTRAIN doctorates volition go employed on contracts inside a laboratory-based field.

Application together with election Procedures

NEXT CALL  - data available 1 June 2012

AgTraIn only issues ane annual telephone band for applications roofing both European Union together with third-country applicants. The annual call announces selected research topics relevant for the application round.  

Application Form together with Guidelines
When the telephone band is opened you lot tin move access the Application Form here. For directions on how to consummate the application, you lot volition too go able to download the Guidelines to completing the AgTraIn doctoral candidate application form.

Main contents of the application form:
  • Indication of selected inquiry topic from the AgTraIn PhD Topic Catalogue
  • Project synopsis of max 1500 words
  • A sample of ain scientific text
  • Certified re-create of minute academy degree(s) certificate
  • Brief Curriculum Vitae
  • English proficiency (min score IELTS 7.0 , TOEFL: Paper-based 600/IBT 100)
  • Two academic references
Evaluation criteria
Eligible applications are evaluated past times the AgTraIn Assessment Committee according to 3 chief criteria:
  • Academic potential every bit indicated past times (i) a real proficient minute academy degree; (ii) a inquiry synopsis that closely relates to ane of the 5 inquiry subjects announced inwards the call, together with demonstrate insight together with involvement inwards the subject, (iii) documented inquiry achievements, e.g. publications inwards international journals amongst peer review. This is the almost of import criterion 
  • English proficiency
  • Academic references
Short-listing
Based on this, the best applicants are short-listed and invited to develop a total projection proposal. Short-listed applicants will be informed past times email. They are set inwards straight contact amongst the potential supervisors, who volition assistance the applicant inwards developing the total projection proposal. Within a deadline of 5-6 weeks, the applicant submits the total proposal on a touchstone format to the AgTraIn Secretariat.

Interview
Each shortlisted applicant is invited, if recommended past times their principal supervisor, to introduce their proposal earlier a Scientific Committee, consisting of at to the lowest degree 2 members of the AgTraIn Consortium Commission.  Applicant costs are covered past times the Consortium.

Start date
Selected doctoral candidates should human face to have down their doctoral studies unopen to 1 September 2013.

Erasmus Mundus Secretariat

For farther data on e.g. the programme, admission procedures together with deadlines delight contact us at



You are too welcome to write to

Erasmus Mundus Secretariat
University of Copenhagen
Faculty of Life Sciences
Bülowsvej 17
DK-1870 Frederiksberg
Denmark

Phone +45 35332048
http://www.agtrain.eu/



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