Scholarships for Barcelona GSE Master Programs

Barcelona GSE Master Programs

Available Master Programs

• MSc in Economics and MSc in Finance
  
• MSc in Competition and Market Regulation
  
• MSc in the Economics of Science and Innovation
• MSc in International Trade, Finance, and Development
  
• MSc in Macroeconomic Policy and Financial Market

Degree

The Master programs in Competition and Market Regulation; the Economics of Science and Innovation; International Trade, Finance, and Development; and Macroeconomic Policy and Financial Markets lead to a Master of Science degree awarded jointly by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. The Master programs in Economics and in Finance lead to a Master of Science degree awarded by the Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

Campuses

Four of the Barcelona GSE masters (Economics, Finance, Competition and Market Regulation, and International Trade, Finance, and Development) are based at the Ciutadella campus, at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in central Barcelona. The Master in Macroeconomic Policy and Financial Markets and the Master in the Economics of Science and Innovation are located at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) campus at Bellaterra, about a thirty-minute train ride from the city center.

Online Application Form

Admission Criteria

There are four main criteria for admission: academic preparation, English language requirement, quantitative skills (GRE/GMAT), and letters of recommendation.

The specific requirements listed below should be considered orientative rather than absolute. Excellence in one area may compensate for a shortcoming in another. In the end what is evaluated is the whole file.

Please note that there are always many more applicants than slots available, and possession of the minimum entrance requirements does not guarantee that you will be offered admission.

Academic Preparation:

• Undergraduate/bachelor's degree or the equivalent from an accredited college or university
• Outstanding academic record - download country-specific guidelines [pdf]
• Most common undergraduate degrees: Economics, Finance, Engineering, Sciencies, Mathematics.

English Language Requirement:

• All Barcelona GSE master programs are taught entirely in English.
• No proof of language skill is required if:
  • your first language is English
  • the language of instruction of your previous degree was English.
  • Students with a previous degree taught in English in a non-English speaking country, should provide official evidence from the relevant university that the degree was taught entirely in English to gain an exemption from this requirement.
• All other students must provide recent evidence that their spoken and written command of the English language is adequate.

Scholarships

The “la Caixa” savings bank Foundation and the Barcelona GSE offer 14 fully-funded scholarships to students from emerging and developing countries (*) with excellent academic backgrounds who will return to their home countries at the end of their professional training process to implement their knowledge.

This award covers:

• master program tuition
• medical insurance
• round-trip airfare from the student's country of residence
• monthly stipend for expenses during the student's stay in Barcelona

(*) Note: “Emerging and developing countries” is an expression used to name all countries not included on the following 2008 IMF list of “advanced economies”: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong SAR, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom, United States of America.

Application Deadline : 15 July 2011

Homepage: http://www.barcelonagse.eu/Programs.html

UNU-IAS PhD Scholarship Fellowship Programme

Since 1996, UNU-IAS offers PhD Fellowships to candidates in the last stages of their dissertation process to broaden their perspectives to other related scientific fields, and to expose them to international policy-making circles. So far, more than 90 Fellows from some 50 countries have passed through the PhD Fellowship Programme. Of those completing the programme, about one third have been women, and developing country participants have outnumbered developed country participants.

One or two PhD Fellowships are awarded each year for a period of 12 months, starting in September.

The Fellowship Programme provides the successful applicant with a unique opportunity to:

• develop and advance their research under the supervision of a UNU-IAS faculty member and contribute to the overall research agenda of the Institute;
• widen their research interests and professional networks by working in the international and multi-disciplinary context of UNU-IAS, and with its wider network of Japanese universities and research institutes, as well as international collaborators;
• become exposed to the workings of the international and multilateral policy process and the broader UN system; and
• link with other UNU-IAS and UNU PhD and Postdoctoral Fellows.

The Fellows are resident at UNU-IAS in Yokohama, Japan for the full term of the fellowship. This gives them the opportunity to gain from the broader research programme of lectures, seminars, workshops and conferences arranged by UNU-IAS. The Institute's close links with Japanese affiliated professors and visiting professors from key universities and think tanks in Japan also allow Fellows to link into the broader Japanese academic and research community.

2. Field of Research

The purpose of the UNU-IAS PhD Fellowship is to provide young scholars and policy-makers, especially from the developing world, with a multidisciplinarily context within which to pursue advanced research and training that are of professional interest to the applicant and of direct relevance to the research agenda of UNU-IAS. Research proposals for UNU-IAS PhD Fellowships should therefore relate clearly to one of the current research areas of the Institute, as well as aim to be policy relevant. Research proposals are invited in the following areas:

Science and Technology for Sustainable Societies
Sustainable Urban Futures
Biodiplomacy Initiative
Sustainable Development Governance
Traditional Knowledge Initiative

3. Eligibility and Conditions

Applicants must be at the dissertation writing stage of their PhD with a research proposal accepted by the candidate's university. Language proficiency in English is essential. Applicants from developing countries and women are particularly encouraged to apply.

UNU-IAS Ph.D. Fellowships are awarded for a period of 12 months. The starting date of the Ph.D. Fellowship Programme is 1 September. Successful applicants are required to be in Yokohama by this date. Residency in Yokohama for the full duration of the fellowship is required.

Fellows are provided with their own desk in a dedicated study room in the Institute, administrative support and desktop computing. Fellows have access to the UNU Library in Tokyo which includes an excellent collection of UN documents. They also have access via the UNU Library to various Japanese university libraries and computer databases. A limited range of other, more specialised computer hardware and software may also be available.

The fellowship provides a monthly stipend of JPY260,000 from which a monthly usage charge for accommodation is deducted (see below). A one-time-only settle-in-allowance of JPY 80,000 will be granted to each Fellow at the beginning of the programme for relocation, adjustment expenses, ground transportation and incidental costs. UNU-IAS provides Fellows with a return air ticket between his/her country of residence and Narita Airport. Settle-in-allowance and air tickets are, however, not provided for Fellows already residing in Japan before the commencement of the fellowship.

Fellows carry out their research in Yokohama under the supervision of a UNU-IAS faculty member and/or affiliated UNU-IAS network scholars. Fellows will spend about half of their working hours on their dissertation and the remaining half assisting the Institute’s projects and activities.

4. Accommodation

Ph.D. Fellows will be provided with accommodation by UNU-IAS (within 30 minute walk from the Institute). Usage charges other than utilities (electricity, water, gas, telephone, etc.) are as follows:

Single room apartment (for one person) JPY80,000 or more per month
Twin room apartment (for couples) JPY130,000 or more per month

5. Starting Date and Deadline for Applications

Contacts:

The UNU-IAS PhD Fellowship Programme begins on 1 September and the selected Fellows are required to be in Japan by this date. The deadline for applications for the 2011 Fellowships is 28 February 2011.

6. To Apply

Interested and eligible candidates are invited to complete the online-application form. If you do not have access to the Internet, please contact us (see the contacts below). The online form and the required documents indicated in the form must be in English. If the supporting document is in another language, please also attach an English translation.

Selection Criteria and Process

Applicants are evaluated on the following criteria:

(i) The research objectives of the applicant and the quality of the research
proposal;
(ii) the relevance of the research proposal to the ongoing or planned research
activities of the applicant's selected Research Programme at UNU-IAS;
(iii) the applicant's academic merit and the potential for successful research while
at UNU-IAS.

After the initial review of all completed applications, short-listed candidates will be contacted for a telephone interview.

Ph.D. Fellowship Programme
United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies
6F, International Organizations Center
Pacifico-Yokohama
1-1-1 Minato Mirai
Nishi-ku, Yokohama 220-8502
Japan

Email: fellowships@ias.unu.edu
Fax: +81-45-221-2303

Application Deadline : 28 February 2011

Homepage: http://www.ias.unu.edu/sub_page.aspx?catID=119&ddlID=151

The home scholarship European PhD in Socio-Economic and Statistical Studies

Sess.EuroPhD invites applications to the Doctoral Programme 2011 commencing on October 1 as part of the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. The European PhD in Socio-Economic and Statistical Studies is an international, interdisciplinary graduate programme cooperating with nine partner universities. The doctoral degree Doctor Europaeus is awarded upon completion of the programme.

Sess.EuroPhD is a three year doctoral programme. An essential part of the curriculum is the experience gained through the study at partner universities. PhD candidates are required to spend at least one semester as well as a shorter research stay of 4–6 weeks abroad. The doctoral candidates have the opportunity to draw from the teaching, supervision, and knowledge of more than 40 academic instructors at the nine partner universities in Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Budapest, Haifa, Lille, Rome, Southampton, and Tampere.

Dissertation projects from the following seven major areas of interdisciplinary research are welcomed:

1. The interrelationship between economic and social structure
2. Processes of change in economic organizations and institutions
3. Markets as social structures and networks
4. Labor markets, employment, and conflict
5. Welfare state analysis and social security
6. Economic and social inequality and perceptions of social justice
7. Social ethics of the market in face of globalization

Admission is based on academic excellence and is open to students with a Master’s degree (or equivalent) in economics or the social sciences. Applicants from countries other than those of the partner universities are encouraged to apply. English proficiency at an academic level is assumed.

Applicants starting at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin automatically become members of the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS). The BGSS awards scholarships of up to 1200€/month for a maximum of 36 months, contingent on the successful completion of each year. Applicants with alternative funding are welcome. Applications for the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin must be submitted online at www.europhd.org/admission from January 3 to February 16, 2011.

For further information contact sess@europhd.org or visit www.europhd.org.

home scholarship Grantham Institute Funded PhD Studentship

Applications are invited for the following Grantham Institute-funded PhD studentship to be based in the Science Communication Group in the Department of Humanities at Imperial College. The deadline for applications is 6th February 2011.

Source-journalist relationships in the reporting of climate change

Aim

This project will examine journalists’ strategies for the sourcing of stories about climate change. Who is given voice in media reports, and how different news actors are represented, is one of the most pressing issues for the public mediation of climate science and climate policy. Journalists have been found to misrepresent the scientific consensus on climate change by deploying ‘false balance’ (e.g., Boykoff 2007). Yet in other cases science journalists are overly-reliant on single scientific sources, going against the journalistic norm of testing the claims of news sources (e.g., Conrad, 1999). The question of how climate reporting is sourced has become more acute than ever in the fall-out from the UEA ‘Climategate’ affair. On the one hand, climate sceptics have successfully positioned themselves as part of the story, making it difficult for journalists to ignore their views; on the other hand, there are indications that scientists may be retreating from media appearances after seeing the pressure to which the CRU scientists have been subjected. Some media commentators, such as the International Broadcasting Trust (2010), believe that Climategate has prompted a return to framing climate news in terms of a polarised debate between equal parties. For broadcasters in particular, with their legal obligation to cover controversial issues with due impartiality, Climategate re-invigorates the already troublesome question of the extent to which impartiality requires the sceptic position to be heard.

Methodology

This project will build on analyses of the ideological framing of UK press coverage of climate science (Boykoff 2008, Carvalho 2007) to look at how the UK news media respond to Climategate in terms of their sourcing strategies. Through qualitative interviews with journalists, it will examine how they decide who to interview in climate stories and how they weigh the inclusion of a range of voices with faithful reporting of the current state of scientific knowledge. It will also draw on interviews with scientists to investigate their willingness to make themselves available for media comment given the hostility and tenaciousness with which some bloggers now pursue climate scientists with public profiles. The findings from the interviews will be analysed alongside a discourse analysis of actual media content to reveal how journalist-source relationships shape news output.

The Grantham Institute Studentships

This project is one of 24 shortlisted by the Grantham Institute, The student will be based in the Department of Humanities but will interact with other Grantham students through attendance at Institute seminars, including a fortnightly series organised by and for research students. The project will be supervised by Dr Felicity Mellor, lecturer in science communication in the Department of Humanities. The studentship will commence in October 2011. The Grantham Institute will pay Home Fees plus maintenance at standard Research Council rates and an element for consumables and travel. For more information about the Grantham Institute, please see: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/climatechange . For further information about the Science Communication Group, please see: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/humanities/sciencecommunicationgroup .

Application process and deadlines

Candidates should have, or expect to obtain this year, a good masters degree in science communication, journalism studies, media studies, the sociology of science or other relevant field. Academic specialism in the media coverage of science or the social context of climate science is desirable. Candidates should submit an application to the Science Communication Group in the Department of Humanities using the College’s online application system at http://apply.embark.com/grad/imperial/grad/. Please include a CV and a personal statement (not more than one page of A4) explaining your interest in, and suitability for, the proposed research. The deadline for applications is 6th February 2011. Interviews with shortlisted candidates will be held during February. The selected candidate’s application will then be forwarded to the Grantham Institute for the final selection of projects for funding. The final decision should be reached by the end of February.

Contact

If you have any queries about this studentship, please email Felicity Mellor at f.mellor@imperial.ac.uk

PhD Student Position in Automatic Control

The Control Engineering Group (CEG) at the department of Computer Science and Electrical and Space Engineering are currently looking for 1-3 PhD students. Applications include, but are not limited to, plant wide optimization of sustainable process industries, and automation of heavy vehicles and wireless sensor networks.


We seek candidates with a MSc/civ.ing. degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Space engineering or similar areas, preferably with a strong interest or experience in mathematics, optimization, control and experimental work. You should be a good team player and have an ability to take initiative. The positions are supported by on-going research projects.

For further information, please contact: professor Thomas Gustafsson, +46-920-491323, Thomas.Gustafsson@ltu.se . You can also visit our homepage http://www.ltu.se/csee

The application should include CV, university transcripts (tests/grades record) and contact details of at least two references.

Send in your application marked with the reference no 2702-10 to Luleå University of Technology, The Registry secretary, SE-971 87 LULEÅ, or registrator@ltu.se .

Ref no: 2702-10

Application Deadline : 11 February 2011

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