Are you thinking of how to secure the Erasmus Mundus Scholarship?. I’m glad to let you know that, you’re in the right place.
Erasmus Mundus scholarship is a highly competitive scholarship sponsored by the European Union.
The scholarship is available for both the European Union and Non-European students.
In an interview with one of the Erasmus Mundus Scholarship awardees Tomiwa Oluwajuwon at scholarship gurus group chat. He gave some insight into how to secure the scholarship.
The European Union, through the European Commission, has a number of ways of providing supports to the world, via various agencies. Some of these encompass the sectors of youth empowerment, education, sports, economies, culture, and lots more.
Specifically, the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) manages the Education aspect and has instituted a number of Scholarship programmes, among which is the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Degree (EMJMD) Scholarship.
As we may have known that the European Union has about 28 member countries, hence, an EMJMD opportunity will take you to at least 2 of these countries. Imagine you get to enter a country from where you can use your Schengen Visa to travel to almost all other European countries!.
Isn’t that a nice and life-changing experience? I bet it is!
Now, let’s take ourselves through the EMJMD properly.
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EMJMD or better say, Erasmus Mundus Scholarship, is a prestigious scholarship programme that has about 120 component programmes delivered jointly by two – four universities in different European countries (while a few may have one or two of their partnering universities outside Europe).
Note: A candidate is expected to apply for only at most, three (3) programmes within an application season (anything above this leads to disqualification). Each of the programmes mostly lasts for a maximum of 2 years (while there may a few exclusions for 1yr).
The period you spend in a university depends on the specific mobility of the programme. While some programmes have their students spend every semester in different universities (making 4), others like mine would be a whole session in each of the 2 universities.
At the completion of your Master’s programme, you will either be awarded a single Master’s Degree(jointly issued by all the universities in your mobility) or mostly, different Masters’ Degrees by each
university. This however varies with programme.
Most fascinatingly, EMJMD is quite a juicy one, based on its scholarship coverage, which encapsulates:
Participation Costs: This is directly paid to the programme’s consortium (universities) for the tuition fees and health insurance.
Travel support costs: €3000 to fund your visa and flight costs. This is paid twice! The second will be paid as you plan to move to the second-year mobility university.
However, this could be reduced to €2000 if the distance between your residence in Nigeria and your (coordinating) university in Europe is less than 4000Km.
Installation costs: €1000 paid once, usually to help with the settling-down.
Monthly living costs: €1000/month, which is paid for the 24 months (2 years). Isn’t this lovely?
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The mode of application is similar to other scholarship programmes with just very little peculiarities. Usually, the application portals for most programmes open between August and January, some still extend to February though.
First of all, you will have to use this link to access the catalogue of the programmes and identify at most three programmes that interest you or are relevant to your first degree.
Please note that it’s possible that you do not find a programme/course that is directly related to your first degree, in terms of the Programme’s Name.
However, what you are expected to do is to surf for the qualification requirements of the potential ones.
Take for instance, in this current Nigerian Erasmus Mundus cohort, I have seen a graduate of Agriculture win a programme named “EIMAS- European Interdisciplinary Masters African Studies”. So, it’s not just about the Name, when identifying a programme to apply for, it’s about your degree (and your experience) meeting its requirement.
After you must have identified your intending programmes, you will have to proceed to their respective websites to read up about what they entail and their application procedures.
Hence, the following responses may arise:
I have mentioned earlier that Erasmus Mundus Scholarship is a prestigious and multidisciplinary one, as such, the mobility across Europe makes it far more exceptionally great.
However, it also comes with a seeming limitation –Erasmus Mundus doesn’t pay until you arrive at your first (or coordinating) university and open an account with them (although, this seems to have been compromised by the Covid-19, as a few programmes have promised to pay the monthly stipends to students who will be unable to resume physically, but rather through online mode from Nigeria.
Therefore, unlike some other scholarships, visa processing, flight ticket to Europe, documents legislation and other miscellaneous (as the case may be) would have been covered by you at first.
Nonetheless, be rest assured that once you resume for your programme, your first outright payment of 5000 Euros (€3000–travel, €1000–installation, and €1000–first month) will offset these bills.
Another juicy part is the pre-departure programme usually held in Abuja before you travel for your programme, hosted by the EU Ambassadors, where accommodation and flight to Abuja will be provided.
Sadly, we still don’t know how this event will play out this year, as a result of Covid-19.
In short, EMJMD is worth applying for! It’s the most stress-free scholarship that I’ve ever applied for.
It cover tuition fees, travel, installation and other bills.
Yes. It is available for both European and non European union students
The monthly stipend is €1000 for 2 years.
Go for it! Ace it! I wish you the best!!!
Career Acada Team wish you the best in your pursue for academic excellence.
Adeyinka is the founder and content creator at Career Acada. He’s a technology expert and web developer. He holds a degree in Genetics and loves impacting life for a better society.
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