Post Graduate Master Course by Politecnico di Torino
SPACE EXPLORATION AND
DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS (SEEDS)
Edition V – 2009/2010
The Post Graduate Master Course has been approved and funded by the European Social Fund (Bando Regionale per i Master Universitari di I e II livello 2009/2010 - D.D. n. 349 del 03/07/2009).
In no case the tuition fee for the 5th SEEDS edition will exceed 4000,00 Euro. This rate is intended for the whole SEEDS course and includes also the university fees. If the financial support received during the last editions (sponsorships, subsidies, EU Social Fund …) will be confirmed also for 2009/10 the quoted amount will be reduced to a level which could be considerably lower (in the first 4 edition the fee ranged from 3000 to 4500 Euro, depending on the obtained financial support).
Thanks to a special support granted by ESA to SEEDS in order to foster its Europeanization by encouraging the enrolment in Torino of non Italian students from the States sitting in the ESA Ruling Council, the best 5 selected applicants from the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Luxemburg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and Canada will be fully exempted from paying the fee. Additionally, each of them will receive a grant of 3000,00 Euro to support the expenses related to the SEEDS Project Work mobility across Europe. This grant will be paid just after the start of the Project Work activity.
The same conditions (fee exemption and grant to the Project
Work) apply also to the best 3
selected applicants from the so-called
PECS (Plan for European Cooperating States)
countries being also ESA
Candidate Member States, namely: Hungary,
Romania and Poland.
In addition n. 3 grants of 1500,00 Euro are available for students from the ESA and PECS countries enrolled in SEEDS at Supaero (Toulouse) through the local TAS-Astro Course and joining in Torino the SEEDS Project Work Team to support their mobility during the Project Work.
A few places covered by ESA fellowships (with full fee exemption) are still available for candidates from the ESA and PECS countries (Italy not included). Therefore the application deadline is, for those candidates, delayed to October 15th, 2009. The selection of all the applications from ESA (not Italy) and PECS countries will take place from the 19th to the 20th of October 2009.
The
course will be activated on condition that also the new edition
will obtain the approval and funding by European Social Fund and by
sponsors, and if the minimum number of 10
partecipants is reached.
A maximum number of 15 participants is foreseen in Torino.
The Scientific Committee may decide to activate the Post Graduate Master Course with a reduced partecipant’s number.
Accommodation and travel costs during the all teaching and Project Work phases are to be sustained by the students.
The above cited grant is the only kind of financial support provided by the SEEDS management to the students but, as specified, it holds only for a limited number of non Italian participants from ESA and PECS countries. No other fellowships are available since, according to its policy, SEEDS utilizes any additional financial income to realize a generalized fee reduction as high as possible rather than to support individual students. As a consequence, fellowships have to be found by the students themselves. For instance, some Italian Regions support their citizens’ attendance of post-degree courses (information can be obtained from the regional offices).
Furthermore all Italian students enrolled in Post-graduated Master Courses managed by COREP can get an "ad honorem loan" for an amount of 5.000 Euro per year given by UniCredit Bank. To get the loan it is sufficient to present an Enrolment Certification to the Master, without other requirements. Further information can be asked to the COREP Master Secretariat.
The course will be held from 2
November
2009 to December 2010.
The course attendance is mandatory and implies full time
engagement from Monday to Friday
(9.00-13.00;14.00-18.00).
The first 6 months of lectures and exercises in Torino will be held at COREP, C.so Trento 13.
The SEEDS Project Work activity will then start with an Introduction lasting from two to three weeks, to be partly spent either at the Space Centre ALTEC or in the Thales Alenia Space premises. Then the three main Project Work phases follow. In the first four SEEDS editions these have been sequentially performed in Toulouse (with tutors from CNES, EADS Astrium, TAS-F …), Bremen (tutors from Astrium ST, OHB Systems…) and Torino (tutors from Thales Alenia Space, ALTEC ...) under the supervision of senior experts from the quoted local Space Industries and of the general Project Work co-ordinator. The reported sequence may be modified each year according to the educational and organizational needs and to the availability of the local partners. It is expected that – as in the first four editions – the final Project Work discussion will be held at the ESA ESTEC Space Centre in Noordwijk (The Netherlands) or in another European space establishment.
Information on the
Partner Universities can be found in the European SEEDS Web site:
www.seeds-master.eu
