The European Commission recently decided which consortiums of European universities are to be granted the status of “Erasmus Mundus Master Courses Consortium,” a status that includes the right to offer European master’s programs of high quality.
The Commission had received 200 applications. Of these 15 were selected, and Luleå University of Technology is a member of two of them-in competition with several others from different countries.
As early as this spring applications will be considered from Swedish and foreign students in the fields of space technology/space science and materials science, in which Luleå University of Technology is a participant.
One of the programs will be in the field of advanced materials science. Students will study at Luleå and in France (Nancy), Spain (Barcelona), and Germany (Saarbrucken). What’s more, students will receive two degreesone Swedish and another from one of the other three countries.
Several industrial companiesincluding SSAB, SECO Tools AB, and Aura Light ABhave shown great interest in the new international program by providing student scholarships.
The other program is called SpaceMaster-Joint European Master’s in Space Science and Technology. In this program students will first take a semester in Germany (Wurzburg), then the second semester at the Space Campus in Kiruna. The second year of studies offers a choice of specialization in England (Cranfield), France (Toulouse), the Czech Republic (Prague), Finland (Helsinki), Germany (Wurzburg), or Sweden (Space Campus in Kiruna in collaboration with the Institute for Space Physics). These students will also receive two degrees.
In both of these master’s programs it will also be possible for some Luleå University of Technology students to spend some time studying at partner universities in China, Japan, the U.S., Australia, or some other non-EU country. It has yet to be decided exactly what partner universities will be included.
Sven Molin (space technology), sven.molin@ltu.se or Asta Pellinen-Wannberg (space technology), phone: +46 980-791 18, asta.pellinen-wannberg@irf.se, Magnus Odén (materials science), phone: +46 920-49 19 61, magnus.oden@ltu.se or the University’s Chief Press Officer Lena Edenbrink, phone: +46 920-49 16 22, cell phone: +46 70-679 16 22, lena.edenbrink@ltu.se.
18 January, 2011 - Luleå tekniska universitet
Carbon nanotubes, which are extremely small fibers used in many new light and strong materials, may present health risks if inhaled, in the worst case leading to cancer, according to new research from Luleå University of Technology.
24 March, 2010 - Luleå tekniska universitet
A mini-laboratory that makes it possible, among other things, to study how brain cells in stroke patients are affected by lack of oxygen is being developed by a research team at Luleå University of Technology (LTU) in Sweden. Lab on a Chip is what the scientists are calling their mini-lab, which is expected to facilitate studies of all sorts of biological cells and how they are affected by different medicines, chemical substances, etc.
18 December, 2008 - Luleå tekniska universitet
Why does gold occur where it does in the bedrock? If we understood that we would be able to make new finds also in areas where we had not looked for it. In his research into the Fäboliden gold deposit along the so-called Gold Line in Västerbotten in northern Sweden, Glenn Bark has studied the geological features that are important to the formation of gold deposits. What’s more, the results are proving to be directly useful to the project’s industrial partner and its current gold prospecting.
12 May, 2008 - Luleå tekniska universitet
Luleå University of Technology has gained a contract from the European Commission for an ICT project entitled Networking for Communications Challenged Communities: Architecture, Test Beds and Innovative Alliances (N4C).The N4C project, within the EC Seventh Framework Program has a budget of 3,650 000 euro over three years.
Expertsvar, The Swedish Research Council, Hantverkargatan 11B, Stockholm SWEDENPhone +46(0)8 546 44 000
P.O. Box 1035, SE-101 38 Stockholm, expertsvar@vr.se
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