Global Studies - A European Perspective

In April 2009, 36 Master’s courses of the first Erasmus Mundus generation applied for further funding under the Erasmus Mundus II Programme. The European Commission selected out of these applications 19 programmes one of it was the Master’s course “Global Studies – A European Perspective”. Starting with next year there will be introduced some changes in the Erasmus Mundus scholarship scheme. A major one is the offer of full-time grants for European students (category B scholarships). For the 2010-2012 generation 6 category B grants will be provided for students of the Global Studies programme as well as 8 scholarships for non-EU students and 2 grants dedicated for nationals from the Western Balkans and Turkey.

Also the composition of the EMGS consortium will change. Starting with 2010 Roskilde University (Denmark), Fudan University (China) and Jawaharlal Nehru University (India) will be part of the consortium.

Starting with the academic year 2010 the Erasmus Mundus programme will provide full time grants that cover for the complete tuition fee and include a monthly living allowance of 500 Euro to European students. We kindly invite all interested EU nationals to apply by April 1st for admission to the Master’s course in Global Studies as well as for the Erasmus Mundus grant. In 2010 the EU will offer 6 full time grants for European students.

Meeting the application deadline will be established by the date of arrival of the hardcopy application at the Leipzig office. For detailed information on how to apply, please visit the section “How to apply” .

In order to further professionalise the alumni work of the Master’s course in Global Studies an Alumni co-ordinator has been engaged at the beginning of this year. The co-ordinator himself graduated from the programme in fall 2009 and is thus completely familiar with the programme as well as the expectations towards a satisfying alumni work.

Ian is responsible for providing all alumni and graduate students with information on job- and phd-opportunities as well as on conferences related to the field of Global Studies. He is also responsible for issuing the Global Studies Newsletter. Another major task will be the organisation of the second Global Studies alumni meeting that is envisaged to take place at the end of November 2010 in Vienna. You can contact Ian under: emgs.alumni[at]uni-leipzig.de. We wish him all the best for his tasks.