Erasmus Mundus MACLANDS MACLANDS is a Master Degree in territories’ sustained development and management for and through heritage and cultural landscape.

Duration of the course: 2 years

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Application Schedule

• 31st January 2011: deadline for Category A & Category B applications.
• 30th April 2011: deadline for students who do not ask for a scholarship.

Admission criteria for students Students must at least have a first higher education degree (Licentiatura, Bachelor’s degree, Diploma di laurea di primo livello) in either Humanities (social and human sciences), law, economics, psychics, chemistry, or an equivalent diploma in architecture, art and design, heritage and landscape, or engineering.  Applicants who are currently undertaking their Bachelor’s degree (equivalent to French Licence) and who have already reached 150 ECTS are allowed to apply, but will be accepted only if they successfully pass their exam before the end of July 2011. Moreover, personal motivation, prior work experience in the field, obvious linguistic skills, as well as the relevance, originality and quality of the proposed study/research project will be crucial elements in the selection process.

Application procedure The following documents have to be provided with your application form :

• a certified copy, with certified French translation of the required diploma requested to enter an Erasmus Mundus Master
• the diploma of your language level (DALF C1 in French, CELI 3 in Italian and ZD in German) or all documents that proves that the candidate has started a language training before arriving in Europe.
• a detailed CV in French or English with 3 photos
• a motivation letter
• 2 letters of recommandation in one of the Consortium language.
• the student research/study project in accordance with the motivation letter. This project should be presented in a scientific way (references, bibliography,etc..) and should help the jury on the quality of the student and on the quality of his application.
• the completed and signed application form.

You can download the application form here.

The following documents must also be sent per email to the following address contact@maclands.fr before 31/01/2011

• Application form
• CV
• Motivation letter
• Student project

Selection MACLANDS secretariat will check applications, qualifications etc., and the eligibility of each applicant according to the Erasmus Mundus criteria. The proprer selection then starts and applications are ranked by per order of merit.

The list of students and scholars pre-selected on the main and reserve lists is sent to the Executive Agency of the European Commission by 28th February 2011 at the latest. At this stage, students and scholars are notified by email of their pre-selection on either the main or the reserve list.  After checking applications, the Executive Agency officially approves the selection lists sent by the consortium, usually late March, early April.  Students will be immediately notified in order to start the administrative procedure to obtain their visa.