Erasmus Mundus Partnership Scholarships

EMP-AIM is a Partnership of 17 Universities from European countries, Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova, which aims to build a structured and sustainable cooperation between the involved universities and thus to strengthen academic, cultural, economic collaboration between the European and Eastern Europe region countries. The project EMP-AIM is coordinated by Mykolas Romeris University (Lithuania). The Erasmus Mundus programme's overall aim is to promote European higher education, to help improve and enhance the career prospects of students and to promote intercultural understanding through cooperation with third countries, in accordance with EU external policy objectives in order to contribute to the sustainable development of third countries in the field of higher education.

EMP-AIM offers scholarships for undergraduate, master, doctoral, post-doctoral students and staff mobilities:
• from Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine to study, teach or research at 8 European Partner;
• from 8 European partner universities to study, teach or research at 9 partner universities in Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine.

The eight EU partner universities are Mykolas Romeris University (Lithuania), Johannes Kepler University Linz (Austria), University of Pécs (Hungary), University of Salento (Italy), School of Business Administration Turiba (Latvia), Comenius University in Bratislava (Slovakia), University of Alicante (Spain), University of Glamorgan (UK).

The EMP-AIM scholarships are funded by the European Commission under Erasmus Mundus Action 2 Programme and will cover subsistence allowance, travel, insurance and participation fees (if applicable).

EMP-AIM call for applications for the academic year 2013/2014 is open from 19 November, 2012 to 25 January, 2013. Scholarships are available for study, research and professional visits at all mobility levels.

Applications for the EMP-AIM scholarship must be submitted through an online application system. Only one application per person is allowed. People who register multiple applications will be omitted from the selection process. Among other things, applicants will need to provide a short explanation of a maximum of 1,000 characters about their motivation for applying for an EMP-AIM scholarship.

Read more and apply:  http://emp-aim.mruni.eu/