Doctoral Scholarships in River Science

Doctoral Scholarships in River Science:

Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate (EMJD) in the Science for Management of Rivers and their Tidal Systems (SMART).

The SMART Programme focuses on the core areas of natural and engineering sciences relevant to the sustainable management of river systems from their headwaters to estuaries.

Specifically it adopts a multidisciplinary, multi-scale approach that integrates relevant aspects of the physical, chemical and biological sciences, including relevant theory, monitoring and modelling techniques.

The SMART EMJD is centred around three key components (research areas) of river science:

(a) ecosystem resilience to human and other stressors;

(b) the natural functioning of river-floodplain systems and

(c) the potential to rehabilitate compromised functions in impacted systems.

The aim of SMART is to provide education and research at PhD level that trains the doctoral candidate to think globally and co-work in multidisciplinary research teams.

This will make SMART alumni attractive scientists/engineers for employment in EU and worldwide local and international institutions, universities, private companies, and research bodies.

SMART is a multidisciplinary and inter-sectoral consortium composed of 3 partner universities with a decade of successful cooperation: University of Trento (Italy, Coordinator); Queen Mary, University of London (United Kingdom) and Free University of Berlin (Germany).

Associate partners include 4 Universities, 3 Private Companies, 1 Government Agency and 4 Research Institutes covering 8 different countries and 4 continents.

SMART encompasses three national doctoral/graduate schools in the partner universities.

All SMART partners have internationally recognized, long, track records in research and higher education, with complementary areas of expertise (Trento: environmental engineering and hydro-morphodynamics; London: geography and biogeochemistry; Berlin: freshwater ecology and biology), offering a unique set of instrumented field sites and experimental facilities for challenging research.

The education and training of SMART PhD candidates (40 ECTS) will be detailed in a personal Career Development Plan including a common induction course, an annual research workshop and elective PhD courses organized by the Consortium Partners and Associates on transferable, specific research and language skills.

The research activities (140 ECTS) will be multidisciplinary-based at a principal institution with mandatory mobility to a second Consortium partners and one Associate partner, thus providing each candidate a supervisory team of 3 scientists of the visited institutions.

The Doctoral Candidates are required to present their research at international conferences and to publish in peer-reviewed journals. The PhD dissertation and defence will be in English. Successful completion of the PhD programme will be awarded a joint or double Doctoral Degree in River Science.

Doctoral Scholarships

Erasmus Mundus Doctorate fellowships can be awarded to third-country doctoral candidates who come from a country other than a European Country and who are not residents nor have carried out their main activity (studies, work, etc.) for more than a total of 12 months over the last five years in one of these countries.

The only exception to this rule applies to third-country doctoral candidates who have previously received an Erasmus Mundus masters scholarship in order to follow an Erasmus Mundus Masters Course.

The Erasmus Mundus Doctoral Fellowships cover the students' tuition fees, travel costs and monthly salary; they will be assigned for a duration of 36 months and exclusively for full-time enrolment.

Please, note that

Individuals who have already benefited from an EMJD fellowship are not eligible for a second grant;

Octoral candidates benefiting from and EMJD fellowship cannot benefit from other Community grants while carrying out their Erasmus Mundus doctoral activities;

Doctoral candidates can apply for an Erasmus Mundus fellowship to the Erasmus Mundus Action 1 joint programme (EMMC or EMJD) of their choice but the number of applications must be limited to maximum three different joint programmes;

No more than two doctoral candidates with the same nationality can be awarded an EMJD fellowship in the same Doctoral cohort within the same category;

For category B fellowship holders, two of the Consortium countries visited during the EMJD activities must be different from the country in which the doctoral candidate has obtained his/her last university degree.

Erasmus Mundus Doctoral fellowships are subject to the continuation of programme funding and conditional to the satisfactory progress of the doctoral candidate.

Doctoral candidates enrolled in the SMART EMJD who have been assigned the EACEA fellowhsip will be offered employment contracts.

For more information, see: Erasmus Mundus Doctorate fellowships

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