developing a common identity:

Consortium: MERIT Speaker: F.Torres

Workshop 3 01/12

Engineering, Environment, IT & Telecommunication

MERIT. F. Torres(UPC-UKA-PdT-UCL)

Consortium: MERIT Speaker: F.Torres

Developing a common identity:

• Why MERIT MC?

• What is offered?

• How is developed?

• To whom is addressed?

• Where to disseminate?

Consortium: MERIT Speaker: F.Torres

MERIT Why?European Master of Research on Information and European Master of Research on Information and

Communication TechnologiesCommunication Technologies•Technical University of Catalonia (ES)•Politecnico di Torino (IT)•Université Catholique de Louvain (BE)•Universität Karlsruhe (GE)

– Institutional relation: CLUSTER– Research cooperation: NoE– Social demand: job growing environment

•Within top 15 European regions for high and medium high tech manufacturing.

Source EUROSTAT 20/Nov/06

Consortium: MERIT Speaker: F.Torres

MERIT MC What?

•MERIT is devoted to provide:–A general background to develop a career in a

changing life-learning environment.–A complementary specialized education to launch an

IT&Com research career in highly dynamic areas:•IT & Communication Industry•Automotive Industry•Aerospace Industry•Academic & research institutions

Consortium: MERIT Speaker: F.Torres

MERIT MC How?

• Consortium web + LOGO• Consortium intranet: document repository • Unified procedures: admission (MEAT), dissemination, academic programme,…

• Erasmus Mundus seen as a key opportunity to mature and consolidate the MC in the frame of European IT& Communications educational area.

Consortium: MERIT Speaker: F.Torres

MERIT MC Whom?• Dissemination

–Common message with EM programme as a quality umbrella–Message modulated to focus on target benefits:

•Potential applicants (students, scholars)•Institutions, Agencies,.. (Quality label)•Industry (International Hi-Tech job career)

–MERIT brochure

Consortium: MERIT Speaker: F.Torres

MERIT MC where?• Promotion of EM MC as a quality label

–National governmental departments in Europe• e.g Spanish Ministry of Education

–Cooperation and development agencies•Arab, Latino-American, Asian,…

– Industrial consortiums • Promotion by EM consortiums but also as EACEA

initiative.• Promotion at sessions devoted to education in main

research conferences and symposia–Addressed to potential visiting professors as MERIT

ambassadors worldwide

A few grants, programmes, will have a

strong impact in the perception of potential

applicants