MSc OpSciTech is a unique European Master’s Course providing a comprehensive and multidisciplinary coverage of the field of Optics, from upstream scientific aspects to engineering and applications in major sectors of the economy.
Offered by six top-level academic partners in five countries, it receives financial support from the European Commission and is supported by major industries such as Alcatel-Lucent, Philips, Saint-Gobain, Thales, Zeiss or ASML.
OpSciTech is one of the Master Courses selected by the prestigious Erasmus Mundus framework of the European Commission through which students from non-European Union countries are eligible for two-year grants of € 24,000 per year. For 2010/2011, a total of 10 Erasmus Mundus grants are available for these students ("general category") and additionally 1 or 2 specifically for students from "special windows", namely Western Balkans and Turkey. EM grants are awarded on the basis of merit by the European Commission under proposition of the OpSciTech board.
Students from non-EU countries are defined as:
* nationals coming from all countries other than the 27 EU Member States
* who are not residents of any of the above countries
* who have not carried out their main activities (studies, work, etc.) for more than a total of 12 months over the last five years in any of the above countries.
Admission requirements and criteria
Applications for OpSciTech are jointly handled by all partners of the consortium on this website.
Applicants should have a BSc or BEng comprising significant exposure to physics and optics fundamentals. Other criteria to be taken into account are awards, external references, details of earlier projects, and proof of English proficiency.
APPLICATION CHECK-LIST: documents to be upoladed
Please upload the following documents in .pdf format on the Application extranet (during application period: see calendar & deadlines) :
1) CV,
2) letter of motivation,
3) scans of pages 2-3 of passport,
4) birth certificate,
5) transcripts of marks,
6) English test scores,
7) degrees and diplomas,
8) 2 letters of recommendation (to be directly uploaded into your online application file by your referees).
We stress the fact that only .pdf documents are acceptable.
Moreinfo: http://www.master-optics.eu
