The Erasmus Mundus programme as a vehicle for development

Erasmus Mundus Programme – SpaceMaster

Spatially distributed control is a design principle for systems which include many repeating units with overlapping regions of influence. Transfer functions in both time and spatial dimensions are used to design a controller for applications from a paper mill to the next generation space telescope. This thesis is part of a project known as HeatAl to create a hardware system for demonstration ex...

Erasmus Mundus Master’s Programme in Pervasive Computing & Communications for sustainable Development PERCCOM

Erasmus Mundus Master of Bioethics

This particular Master’s programme was first organised in 1998 by the Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands), the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and the University of Padova (Italy). The main objective of the Master of Bioethics is to train highly qualified students for research work or professional activities in the interdisciplinary field of bioethics, a field that is increasi...

Erasmus Mundus Master of Bioethics: a case for an effective model for international bioethics education

Designing bioethics curriculum for international postgraduate students is a challenging task. There are at least two main questions, which have to be resolved in advance: (1) what is a purpose of a particular teaching program and (2) how to respectfully arrange a classroom for students coming from different cultural and professional backgrounds. In our paper we analyze the case of the Erasmus M...

Good Practices in the Development of the Erasmus Mundus Master program in Color in Informatics and Media Technology

The main objective of this paper is to identify and disseminate good practice in quality assurance and enhancement as well as in teaching and learning at master level. This paper focuses on the experience of the Erasmus Mundus Master program CIMET (Color in Informatics and Media Technology). Amongst topics covered, we discuss the adjustments necessary to a curriculum designed for excellent inte...