Positions for PhD students – VTT Graduate School starts in spring 2010
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is an impartial and multitechnological R&D organisation that provides high-end technology solutions and innovation services. VTT promotes the development of industries and public services, the wellbeing of society, the health and safety of the environment, and improves the knowledge base for political decision-making. From its wide knowledge base, VTT can combine different technologies, create new innovations and a substantial range of world-class technologies and applied research services, thus improving sustainable development in the society and competitiveness and competence of industries world-wide.
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Within the Policy Research Centre for Mobility and Public Works – track Traffic Safety of Hasselt University, the following position (m/f) is available:
Ph. D. student Traffic Safety (2×2 years)
(mandate BEDR/2009/011-HO)
Policy Research Centre for Mobility and Public Works – track Traffic Safety
The Policy Research Centre for Mobility and Public Works, track Traffic Safety (2007-2011) carries out policy relevant research on traffic safety under the authority of the Flemish Government. The activities of the Policy Research Centre include: collecting, analyzing and opening up traffic safety data, carrying out problem oriented and policy relevant scientific research into traffic safety and rendering scientific services. With reference to this, Hasselt University (Transportation Research Institute), also coordinator of the Policy Research Centre, whishes to recruit a fulltime Ph. D. student on traffic safety for a period of 2 x 2 years.
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Scholarship / Financial aid: USD 25,000 to 50,000 per year offered
Date: one year
Deadline: November 30th 2009
Open to: women from developing and emerging economies
Announcement follows
Candidates have from October 5th to November 30th 2009 to apply for the Schlumberger Foundation 2010 Faculty for the Future fellowships.
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NEW : The Mamaself programme has been selected in the Erasmus Mundus 2 European programme.
From now on Mamaself is a 2 year Master course.
Fellowships are now available for both Non-European and European students.
Master in Materials Science Exploiting Large Scale Facilities
Mamaself is a 2 year full time Master aiming to promote the scientific collaboration between Universities, Large scale facilities and Industry.
This Master is the result of the collaboration between four Universities: University Rennes 1, (France), University of Torino, (Italy), Technical University and the Ludwig Maximilians University München (Germany). The Master degree will be delivered by two or three out of the four universities, so the students will receive a double Master degree in Materials Science.
Each student will spend one year in a first hosting institution, the first semester of the second Master year at a second university and the last semester at a university or Large scale Faclities or at a partner institution in Japan, Switzerland or India.
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Electric power engineering at Luleå University of Technology, Skellefteå Campus, see link below, is a small but very successful group that is specialized among others in power quality and power-line communication. The group is among the leading groups worldwide in power quality and has initiated several new research directions within this area. Integration of windpower in the electric power system is one of those directions where the group is leading new initiatives both in Sweden and in the rest of the world.
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The University of Münster, Germany, University Jaume I, Spain, and New University of Lisbon, Portugal, provide a new Masters Program in Geospatial Technologies. The English-taught Masters program has been approved in the educational program of excellence of the European Union ERASMUS MUNDUS. The program targets international applicants and will provide
- 10 full scholarships for non-EU students (26.000 € + tuition fees + insurance package)
- 2 full scholarships for students from Western Balkans and Turkey (26.000 € + tuition fees + insurance package)
- 8 financial contributions to EU students + EEA-EFTA countries and Switzerland (9.000 € + tuition fees + insurance package)
- 4 grants for non-EU visiting researchers/scholars (14.800 € for four months of teaching and research)
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International Graduate Program for Advanced Science (IGPAS) at Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University
http://www.sci.tohoku.ac.jp/english/2nd/igpas.html
APPLICATION PERIOD (IGPAS 2010)
Program begins: October, 2010 (Fall 2010 semester)
Application Period: November 2, 2009-December 18, 2009
Notification Period: February 1- 15, 2010
Status: Open
INTRODUCTION
International Graduate Program for Advanced Science (IGPAS) is an interdisciplinary graduate program in the Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University. It was established in October 2004 as the first international graduate program founded in Japanese national universities. IGPAS offers courses in English for international students who are eager to obtain master`s and doctoral degrees from the Graduate School of Science. It also aims to educate Japanese students to exert their abilities as internationally- active, professional scientists.
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