Description:
4Cities, UNICA Euromaster in urban studies is a unique two-year interdisciplinary and international programme. 4Cities takes students to Brussels, Copenhagen, Vienna, Madrid and a number of surrounding cities.
Eligibility:
Applicants are eligible for the programme if they have an 180ECTS bachelor in geography, sociology, literature & cultural studies, architecture & planning, economy, political sciences, public management, tourism, history, criminology, leisure studies, media studies or a similar discipline.
Structure:
During a period of two years, students take part in an interdisciplinary programme and study in four cities: Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid and Vienna.
Students live in each of the cities for one semester, except for the first block (Brussels) which takes a few weeks longer and the last block which consists of a short intensive stay in Madrid.
Students spend most of the last semester in a location of their choice, where they are able to work on their master thesis.
In each city the programme consists of:
-academic courses
-fieldwork
-excursions & visits
-exams
Academic courses:
Theoretical courses of high standard in the field of urban studies. Students will acquire scientific knowledge about the bases of urban theories in different disciplines, the city as a social product: factors, global context (globalisation, Europe, Fordism/ post-Fordism, modernism/post modernism…), the local context and heritage, planning and design processes and systems, project management...
Fieldwork:
In each of the cities students will be given a topic to study through extensive fieldwork and as a group task. This will result in a written report and public defence. Fieldwork is organised in close cooperation with non-academic urban institutions and organisations and is closely linked to ongoing academic research in each of the cities.
Categories of scholarships:
- Category A scholarships can be awarded to third-country masters students selected by EMMC consortia who come _from a country other
than a European country27 and who are not residents nor have carried out their main activity (studies, training or work) for more than a
total of 12 months over the last five years in these countries28.
- Category B scholarships can be awarded to European masters students selected by EMMC consortia as well as to any masters students
selected by EMMC consortia who do not fulfil the Category A criteria defined above.
Deadlines:
-EU (without scholarships): 15 May 2013
-A category scholarships EMMC: 20 January 2013
-B category scholarships EMMC: 20 January 2013
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