[Master Degree] United Nations International joint MSc program in Germany 2019 (Fully Funded)

The main purpose of the two-year Master’s of Science programme is to provide postgraduate students with detailed knowledge, critical understanding, strategies and the tools required to take an interdisciplinary approach towards environmental risks and human security. The Master’s programme addresses theoretical and methodological debates in geography to better understand the complex emergence of environmental risks and natural hazards and their implications for human-nature relations (vulnerability, resilience, adaptation) and how to deal with them in practice.

This Joint Master’s is part of a selected group of international postgraduate programmes that benefits from the EPOS funding scheme offered by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). We will be able to offer a certain number of fully-funded scholarships to students from “developing countries” for the student intake from 2017 onwards.

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Benefit:
We will be able to offer a certain number of fully-funded scholarships to students from “developing countries” for the student intake from 2017 onwards.

Requirement:

• Being a candidate from an eligible Developing Country (check the list on DAAD website);
• Having at least 2 years of work experience after the Bachelor’s and before applying for Epos programme (i.e. with an NGO, GO, or the private sector);
• Having graduated from their Bachelor not more than 5 years ago;
• Having completed no other Master in a similar field of studies;
• Wishing to apply the post-Master knowledge in career as practitioner (not in an academic area/PHD) further contributing to development;
• Being ready to fully commit to start with the Joint Master Programme once accepted by Joint Master’s selection committee and for funding through Epos

Students wishing to be considered for these scholarships need to apply for the programme as well by submitting a separate application pack (see How to Apply section, requirement no.9); acceptance to the former does not guarantee acceptance to the latter.

How to Apply / Document Required:

A complete application packet consists of the following documents:

1. Completed, signed and dated application form
2. A signed resume/CV
   • An up to date Résumé or CV including a chronological listing of employment and other significant activities must be submitted with your application. Make sure your CV information corresponds precisely to the certificates and letters of recommendation attached to your application!
3. Letter of motivation
   • A written statement, one to two pages in length, describing motivation, area of proposed research, background, past work in the intended field of study, plans for further postgraduate study and any other information that is relevant. Applicants who are currently registered in a postgraduate programme at another university should explain why they wish to change programmes.
4. Official transcripts reflecting the courses and grades achieved per each year and semester
   • Applicants must submit an official transcript from each college or university in which they were enrolled for any period of time, showing all courses, grades and degrees received;
   • Only transcripts that have been certified by the university where the degree was awarded will be accepted;
   • Additional Certified Transcripts in cases where additional academic credits were earned outside of Degrees awarded, or in case of courses attended within exchange programmes (i.e. Erasmus, student exchange etc.);
   • In cases where the transcript is written in any other language than English, a certified translation of the transcript into English is also required. Translated versions can be certified either by the originating university or an official national or international institution.
5. Bachelor’s and, if applicable, Master’s Degree Certificate in English
6. Certificate of English language proficiency; please check the language requirements
7. A sample of academic writing written as part of the fulfillment of the first degree (preferably in English)
   • any academic writings (Essay, Research paper, published academic article etc.) written as part of the fulfillment of your university studies;
   • an Essay related to GeoRisk topic;
   • Bachelor’s Thesis or its extract
8. Recommendation letters from your current and/or previous lecturers (these must be signed, dated, stamped, and on a letterhead); any other relevant documents – optional
9. If the candidate wishes to be considered for the EPOS funding by the DAAD the candidate should submit in a separate PDF file the following documents (all REQUIRED):

• DAAD application form
• CV / Resume signed and dated
• Motivation statement
• Bachelor’s and, if applicable, Master’s Transcript of Academic Records reflecting the courses and grades achieved per each year and semester
• Bachelor’s and, if applicable, Master’s Degree Certificate in English
• Certificate of English language proficiency (check the language requirements)
• Academic Recommendation Letter/s from your current and/or previous lecturers; these must be signed, recently dated, stamped, and on a letterhead
• Professional Recommendation Letter/s from your current and/or previous employers; these must be signed, recently dated, stamped, and on a letterhead
• Work certificate/s from your current and/or previous employers
  • Must reflect the period of the mandatory min. 2 years professional experience after Bachelor’s studies;
  • These must mention the period of employment, must be signed, dated, stamped, and on a letterhead;
  • The certificates must correspond chronologically to the info reflected in your CV/ Résumé.

All application documents for the Master’s Programme must be sent in one PDF (merged), and Epos scholarship application documents in another PDF file (merged). If the academic work is exceeding the accepted size, the applicant may submit it in a separate PDF file as well. Each file should not exceed 8 Megabytes (MB). Send completed application packet/s exclusively online to: master-georisk@ehs.unu.edu

Deadline:

15 January 2019

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