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Scholarships available - Post-Master's Programme in Smart Community Design and Management
The University of Trento is recruiting students for a new community-oriented and interdisciplinary post-master programme, starting September 2015. The deadline for applications is June, 10th 2016 at 1 p.m. (GMT +2). 13 scholarships are available.
SCoDeM is part of the Italian Cluster on “Smart Cities, Smart Communities and Social Innovation” and is aimed at creating the innovative professional figure of the Smart Community Designer and Manager. Such figure is equipped with the methodological and technological skills needed to design, build, coordinate and monitor communities of users engaged in socially impactful projects. Smart Community Designers and Managers can rely on a wide range of interdisciplinary competences, which enable them to manage and consolidate online and physical communities at a local and translocal level. Smart Community Designers and Managers are greatly in demand on a job market which is increasingly pervaded by a widespread interest in the topics of social innovation and of the involvement of communities by companies, public corporations and nonprofit organisations.
Activities
SCoDeM involves a 1500-hour workload, inclusive of face-to-face teaching (around 10%), laboratories (around 15%), a study period abroad (around 10%), an internship (around 40%), seminars and individual study (35%).
Attendance
Activities will take place in the period between September 2016 and September 2017. Attendance is compulsory. In particular, students are required to attend at least 70% of the hours related to face-to-face teaching and internship.
Target Audience and Admission Requirements
SCoDeM targets people with the most diverse backgrounds (computer science, social sciences and humanities), who are interested in carrying out socially impactful computer science projects with a multidisciplinary approach.
To apply for SCoDeM, students must have an MSc or an equivalent degree.
Students who will attain an MSc by October 31st 2016 are also eligible for admission, upon provision of a statement signed by their thesis supervisor, certifying that the MSc will be obtained by the above-mentioned deadline. If selected for the course, such students will figure as admitted with a reservation, until they actually attain the MSc degree.
There are no limitations related to disciplinary fields. Good computer skills are required, ideally gained at university. Moreover, as the course will be taught in English, a good knowledge of the English language (B2 level) is a compulsory requirement.
The enrolment on SCoDeM is incompatible with the enrolment on any other study course.
Selection of Candidates and Deadline for Applications
Candidates will be selected through the evaluation of their CV, publications (if any) and of the motivation letter they will provide. Candidates might be interviewed, if considered necessary by the Committee.
Applications must be submitted online by June 10th, 2016 at 1p.m. at
https://webapps.unitn.it/Apply/en/Web/Home/master-uni
Scholarships
13 scholarships are available:
-10 type-A scholarships, that will be assigned to the first 10 students in the list of admitted candidates. Type-A scholarships include:
-exemption from the payment of the tuition fee (apart from the 100-euro place reservation fee mentioned above);
-an amount of up to 3.500,00 euros gross for face-to-face classes based on attendance (attendance will be monitored through timesheets);
-an amount of up to di 2.200,00 euros gross for the 600-hour internships. The payment of this amount will also be based on the hours certified through the internship timesheet that students will be required to deliver at the end of each month;
-a reimbursement up to 800 euros for eligible expenses incurred during the abroad period.
-Card to access UNITN canteens
-Competitively-priced accommodation in UNITN student flats. The renting contract at UNITN flats cannot be suspended during the 1-month period abroad.
- 3 type B scholarships, that will be assigned to students ranking from the 11th to the 13th position in the list of admitted candidates. Type-B scholarships include:
-exemption from the payment of the tuition fee (apart from the 100-euro place reservation fee mentioned above);
-card to access UNITN canteens
-Competitively-priced accommodation in UNITN student flats (not guaranteed - based on availability). The renting contract at UNITN flats cannot be suspended during the 1-month period abroad.
Terms and Conditions
To guarantee the highest level of teaching, no more than 15 participants will be accepted.
A minimum number of 10 participants (not inclusive of the applicants admitted with a reservation) is required to run the course.
Contacts
Prof. Antonella De Angeli – Director
Ms Costanza Vettori - SCoDeM Secretariat
Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science
University of Trento
Via Sommarive 9, 38123
Trento – Italy
Ph. +39 0461 285295
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www.unitn.it/master-scodem
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