About Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters

Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters (EMJM) are:
hight level integreted, integrated transnational study programmes

• at Master level
  
• resulting in the award of either a joint or multiple master’s degree.

 They are delivered by:
- an international partnership of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) from different countries worldwide and
- other educational and/or non educational partners with specific expertise and interest in the concerned study area(s)/professional domain(s).
EMJMs include the award of scholarships to excellent students for their participation in one of these Joint Master programmes.

The Erasmus Mundus action aims to:

• foster excellence;
  
• encourage worldwide internationalization of Higher Education Institutions in Europe via study programmes jointly delivered and jointly recognized by higher education institutions (HEIs) established in Europe, and open to institutions in other countries of the world;
• increase the HEIs ranking of top universities at global level.

The EMJMs:
enhance the attractiveness and excellence of European Higher Education in the world and
attract talent to Europe, through a combination of
- institutional academic cooperation to showcase European excellence in higher education, and
- individual mobility for students taking part in the action.

The involvement of the EMJMs:
- facilitates the recruitment of the best students on a highly competitive market
- aims at ensuring that the cooperation tools and approaches currently developed in Europe within the framework of the Bologna process (e.g. ECTS, diploma supplement, joint degree mechanisms, European quality assurance procedures) are widely disseminated and recognized beyond Europe.

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