APPLY FOR EUROPEAN UNION FUNDING TO COME TO PUST – ‘ERASMUS’ PROJECTS: CALLS FOR APPLICATIONS, NOW OPEN
PUST is a full partner in two EU academic exchange projects in the Erasmus scheme; and they both have Calls open at the moment, for applications to come from the EU to Asia on academic exchange. This means that any EU citizen, graduate of an EU university, can apply to come to PUST and receive funding from these projects.
All science and technology Major subject areas taught at PUST can be covered, but not language teaching.
(Due to recent EU rules regarding the DPRK, computer science is also specifically excluded; but we believe that other ECE topics, general mathematics, agriculture, life sciences and management/finance/economics topics are all acceptable.)
Applicants must be EU citizens and have a regular residential address in the EU (including UK); and have at least a Masters degree or equivalent from an EU university.
Preferably, they are currently PhD, post-doc or faculty members of any EU university – but this is not essential.
If an applicant is given a grant, it covers the full cost of one round-trip from home to Pyongyang, together with necessary visa and related costs; plus a monthly living allowance. (The allowance is significantly more than the residential costs on the PUST campus! Even if only a one-month stay is paid for, you can consider ‘stretching’ this…)
We can consider applications to come to teach (even from Masters graduates; or from current PhD candidates or post-docs) but opportunities to do your research may be limited.
Please contact us (email info@pust.co) to discuss your application; so that you can also refer to that discussion in your application.
The projects and their websites are:
SmartLink http://smartlink-edu.eu/
Leader http://leader.unisannio.it/
You can apply to both projects simultaneously.
If you apply and are offered an award but circumstances have then changed, you can choose not to take it up: there is no fixed commitment at this stage.
The timing of your visit to PUST could be any time from mid-Spring 2017, through summer and winter; up until June 2018.
Note that it must fall within our usual semesters: end June / July 2017; September-December 2017; March-June 2018.
The application window is now open – but closing soon: APPLY NOW or you are likely to miss the chance!