University Accession to EIT Manufacturing Master School
What is the EIT Manufacturing Master School?
The EIT Manufacturing Master School is a partnership between EIT Manufacturing and its university partners to offer outstanding and value-market-driven higher education to prepare the new generation of manufacturing innovators and entrepreneurs towards a clean and sustainable environment and an ethic society.
The EIT Manufacturing Master School bridge the gap between traditional academic institutions and companies through an integrated curriculum of technical and Innovation and Entrepreneurship courses, including a mandatory Summer School, and a final industrial thesis.
University Accession to EIT Manufacturing Master School
The EIT Manufacturing Master School programmes are international Master of Science (MSc) double degrees of 120 ECTS. The programme language is English. The students spend the first year at an entry University and a second year at an exit university from a different country. The programmes include inside the programme curricula a mandatory Summer School and an industrial thesis at company premises.
The EIT Manufacturing Master programmes are accredited with the EIT Label, a quality framework provided by EIT.
The existing programmes are available here
All EIT Manufacturing university partners are eligible to join the EIT Manufacturing Master School.
The EIT Manufacturing university partners who want to join the EIT Manufacturing Master School must be able to provide a curriculum thought in English. They must be able to define a double MSc curriculum in collaboration with one or more universities for one of the existing EIT Manufacturing Master Programmes, in line with the general model of the EIT Manufacturing Master School programmes. They can eventually propose a new programme together with either an already EIT Manufacturing Master School member or a new requestor, but still in line with the general model of the EIT Manufacturing Master School programmes.
In case of a new MSc programme, the accreditation of the EIT Label is a mandatory requirement to be funded by EITM. The EIT Label accreditation is done in collaboration with EITM and it must be obtained by the first year of activity of the programme.
All EITM university partners who want to join the EIT Manufacturing Master School must:
- From administrative and legal point of view,
- send their accession request to the Head of EIT Manufacturing Master School, Lucia Ramundo, by e-mail at: masterschool@eitmanufacturing.eu
- sign the accession letter, received by the EIT Manufacturing Master School Head, and submit it to the EIT Manufacturing Master School Head.
Please note the signature of the accession letter must be done by the University dean or similar role able to represent the whole institution. By signing the accession letter the university signs automatically the EIT Manufacturing Master School cooperation agreement.
- From operational point of view:
- Define a proper MSc double degree curriculum with one or more EIT Manufacturing university partners, in line with the general model of the EIT Manufacturing Master School programmes.
The applications to the EIT Manufacturing Master School are open all year round but the admissions are done twice a year:
- In January
- in June
In January only the applications received by Mid of December are evaluated.
In June only the applications received by end of May are evaluated.
The applications will be reviewed and accepted by the EITM Master School Management team, made by the EITM Master School Head, the Programmes Lead and the Local Programmes coordinators.
The receipt or acceptance of any accession requests are based on the capability of applicant university to enter a double degree program with at least one of the Partner Universities and in running the Master School Programme according to the EIT Label Overarching Learning Outcomes. Any motivation for rejection is based on objective, neutral and transparent arguments.
- The evaluation response is given within two months from each of the Master School Management team meeting and its evaluation results. The accepted new university partner join the next application window in November for the following year intake.
- The applicant may appeal an objection to the EIT Manufacturing Board by one month from the rejection communication.
In case of new programmes, if the programme fails to obtain the EIT Label, the programme will be discontinued and it won’t be further funded by EITM. The university can continue to be part of the EIT Manufacturing Master School, but not eligible to receive any funding for that specific programme.
It is responsibility of the university partners participating to the new programme and to its Programme lead to provide all the needed information to EITM Master School to submit the EIT accreditation request.