GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

Erasmus Mundus Design Measures aim to enhance the capacities of higher education institutions in Europe to modernise and internationalise their curricula by developing new master programmes in partnership with universities worldwide to modernise and internationalise their curricula and teaching practices, pool resources, and for higher education systems to develop common mechanisms related to quality assurance, accreditation and recognition of degrees and credits. The support is also intended to explore and exploit the opportunities offered by the European Approach for Quality Assurance of Joint Programmes.

Beneficiaries should provide a level of education corresponding to level 7 of the international standard classification of education ISCED 2011.

The jointly designed Master should:

• offer a fully integrated curriculum delivered by a consortium of HEIs (composed by at least three HEIs from three different countries, of which at least one must be from a EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme and one from a third country not associated to the Programme);
• aim at recruiting excellent students worldwide; – include compulsory physical mobility for all recruited students;
• lead to either a joint degree (i.e. one single diploma awarded by the HEIs involved in the consortium), or multiple degrees (i.e. different diplomas awarded by the HEIs involved in the consortium), or a combination (some HEIs involved in the consortium delivering a joint degree, and other HEIs of the consortium delivering their own diploma).