Erasmus Mundus Doctorate Scholarships in Business Intelligence

Numerous Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate Fellowships in Business Intelligence and Big Data Analytics

ERASMUS MUNDUS JOINT DOCTORATE in INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES for BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE - Doctoral College (IT4BI-DC) (http://it4bi-dc.ulb.ac.be/) provides EU-funded SCHOLARSHIPS to students selected by the IT4BI-DC Consortium.

The IT4BI-DC Consortium is composed of the following institutions:

• Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) (Belgium),

• Aalborg Universitet (AAU) (Denmark),

• Technische Universitaet Dresden (TUD) (Germany),

• Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) (Spain),

• Poznan University of Technology (PUT) (Poland).

The selected PhD students will receive net salary between €1300 - €2200, depending on the institution. More details concerning the funds are available at http://it4bi-dc.ulb.ac.be/fellowships_funds

RESEARCH AREAS

The IT4BI-DC Programme offers multiple cutting-edge research topics in the areas including:

• Information Integration

• Large-Scale Processing

• Information Discovery

• Big Data Analytics

• Modeling and Semantics

• Collaboration and Privacy

The detailed list of topics and Partners that manage them is available at: http://it4bi-dc.ulb.ac.be/topics

AWARDED DEGREE

A graduate from the IT4BI-DC Programme will be awarded either a join degree or double degree offered by two of the Partner institutions. The type of the degree awarded is subject to internal regulations of the countries where the Partner institutions are located.

IMPORTANT DATES

PhD candidates applying for an Erasmus Mundus scholarship:

• December 13th, 2013 : scholarship application deadline

• January 6th, 2014   : uploading reference letters deadline

• End of February 2014: preliminary decision of the scholarship

• Mid May 2014: formal confirmation of the scholarship granting

PhD candidates not applying for an Erasmus Mundus scholarship but willing to join the programme on their own expenses:

• April 30th, 2014: progrmme application deadline for Non-European students

• June 30th, 2014: programme application deadline for European students

PhD candidates are required to apply via the IT4BI-DC online application form that is available at http://it4bi-dc.ulb.ac.be/emundus

Detailed information on the application process is available at: http://it4bi-dc.ulb.ac.be/apply

Enquiries should be sent to:it4bidc@cs.ulb.ac.be

Via: Silvia Sunyer