European Masters in Sport and Exercise Psychology (EMSEP) by Erasmus Mundus Programme

The European Masters in Sport and Exercise Psychology programme (EMSEP) is organised by four leading European universities in the field of sport and exercise psychology (SEP): the University of Jyväskylä (JyU, co-ordinator), Finland; the University of Leipzig (UL), Germany; the University of Thessaly (UTH), Greece, andLund University (LU), Sweden. The EMSEP programme offers education opportunities for students of all nationalities.

Application deadline: January 5, 2010

What is Sport and Exercise Psychology?

Sport and Exercise Psychology is the scientific study of people and their behaviour in sport and exercise contexts, and the practical application of that knowledge. The field, as well as the EMSEP programme, builds on the scientific bases ofsport and exercise sciences, public health, and psychology. As the title implies, EMSEP has two main focuses: (1) promotion of healthy habits and overall lifestyle via regular engagement in various forms of physical activity; and (2) psychological support for athletes. The areas covered by EMSEP include, but are not limited to, motivation, performance, behaviour regulation, cognition, (post)career planning for athletes, identity, counselling and preventive interventions withinsport and exercise contexts.

Career opportunities

The EMSEP programme prepares students for a research and/or professional career in Sport and Exercise Psychology through a combination of coursework, independent study, internship, and an extensive hands-on research experience. After successful completion of the programme, graduates will be awarded a double degree. EMSEP graduates can expect to find employment in the private and public sectors of exercise, well-being and sport; for example, as health and fitness leaders, instructors, performance enhancement specialists, psychological health consultants, or academic researchers in the field.

European Masters Degree in Sport and Exercise Psychology

Full-time duration: 2 years

Language of instruction: English

Annual student intake: 24 (divided between three host universities)

Mobility period: obligatory

Scholarships: available

Programme outline

The research-oriented, two-year master`s programme consists of 120 ECTS credits and is conducted fully in English. The network universities offer a joint curriculum for the students, as they will study in at least two universities during the programme. Upon completion of their studies, the programme graduates are awarded a double degree.

Benefits

The European Masters in Sport and Exercise Psychology programme provides you with:

Research-based, interdisciplinary and high quality teaching from leading experts in Europe

An individualised study plan

Hands-on experience in the field during the internship period

Experience of a truly international study environment, including a study abroad period at another partner university and networking with fellow students and experts

Officially recognised double degree from two network universities

A possibile scholarship for the studies

Website link:

www.jyu.fi/sport/en/study/programmes/emsep

University of the Arts London International Graduate Scholarships

For the 2010/2011 academic year, the University of the Arts London is offering postgraduate scholarships for international students (excludes EU students), across our six Colleges. Scholarships will be awarded to international students with the ability and potential to make an exceptional

contribution to the art, design, communication or performance worlds. We hope the scholarships will enable talented individuals to realise their full potential through further study at University of the Arts London.

Scholarships are available for the following MA courses:

Application deadline: 14 June 2010 and27 September 2010

Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design

MA Screen (Writing pathway given priority)

MA Design (Ceramics pathway given priority)

London College of Fashion

MA Costume for the Performing Arts

London College of Communication

MA Graphic Moving Image

MA Documentary Film

Chelsea College of Art and Design

MA Fine Art

MA Interior and Spatial Design

Camberwell College of Arts

MA Conservation

Wimbledon College of Art

MA Interdisciplinary Performance

For MA courses starting in September/October 2010, the application deadline is 14 June 2010, 5:00pm GMT and decisions will be announced to successful candidates by 12 July 2010. For MA courses starting in January 2011, the application deadline is 27 September 2010, 5:00pm GMT and decisions will be announced to successful candidates by 25 October 2010.

Download information on scholarship eligibility and selection criteria for the MA programmes

Download an MA scholarships application form.

For more Information, click here

Highly qualified undergraduate students are invited to apply for scholarships funding study, senior thesis research and/or internships in Germany. The goal of this program is to support study abroad in Germany and at German universities. Preference will be given to students whose projects or programs are based at and organized by a German university. Scholarships are available either as part of an organized study abroad program or as part of an individual, student-designed study abroad semester or year.

Eligibility Requirements

Each year, an independent selection committee of academics and international education experts is assembled to select the Undergraduate Scholarship grantees. This committee is looking for students who:

* are currently second and third year students and will be in their third and fourth year during their stay in Germany

* are seeking DAAD support for a 4-10 month period in Germany during the German academic year.

* possess outstanding academic records and personal integrity, as evinced by both their grades and letters of recommendation.

* are US or Canadian citizens or permanent residents thereof. Foreign nationals are eligible if they have been full-time students at an accredited US or Canadian university for more than one year at the time of application and will return to the US or Canada after the scholarship period to complete their Bachelor’s degree.

* have well-defined study, research or internship plans for their stay in Germany.

* submit the DAAD language evaluation form with their application, although German language competency is not mandatory.

* demonstrate an interest in contemporary German and European affairs and who explain the significance of their project in Germany to their future studies, research or professional goals.

* are enrolled, full-time students in an undergraduate degree-granting program at an accredited North American college or university.

Terms of Award

Scholarships may be granted for a minimum of four (one semester) and a maximum of 10 months (one academic year). Recipients will be awarded a monthly stipend of approximately € 650, plus additional funds to help defray travel and research expenses as well as health insurance.

Note: The scholarship periods must take place during the German academic year (anywhere from October 2010 through July 2011)

The Application Process

The application form must be completed online and you must send the original printout of the application with your signature, your supplemental documents and materials, and 3 copies of everythingin one package to the DAAD New York office. Be sure to submit all materials and the correct amount of copies of each. Do not staple or bind any part of your application! Incomplete or late applications will not be accepted. Please disregard the “Information regarding your application”, the last page of the online application. The information relevant to your application is the following as well as the instructions DAAD New York provides in the Online Application Guidelines and the Instructions for Completing the DAAD Online Application.

Your paperwork should be in English or French (if you are Francophone Canadian) not in German.

Supplemental Documents are:

Application Deadline

All applications for the academic year 2010/11 must be postmarked by January 31, 2010.

PhD Scholarships in Molecular Basis of Neurodegeneration, University of Tuebingen, Germany

Two Ph.D. student positions are available in the Research Group Synaptic Plasticity, at the Hertie-Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tuebingen, Germany. Our group addresses the molecular and cellular basis of synaptic plasticity.

Special focus of the advertised project will be

(1) Modeling age-dependent proteotoxicity in adult Drosophila

(2) In vivo imaging of synaptic APP processing

(1) Modeling age-dependent proteotoxicity in adult Drosophila

Many diseases of aging, including Alzheimer’s disease and various forms of Parkinsonism, are associated with proteotoxicity caused by improper folding and aggregation of proteins. Recently a Drosophila “Alzheimer” model was described which allows key stages in disease progression to be studied. Specifically it facilitates analysis of processing of the Alzheimer precursor protein (APP) into the Aß peptide which has been implicated as the main instigator of disease [Greeve et. al, JNS, 2004 p 3899]. We have utilized this model to identify putative modifiers that link aging and APP induced neuronal cell death [unpublished results]. Furthermore, we want to address the effect of modifying signalling pathways involved in aging on the neurodegeneration apparent in this model. Subsequently we will assess the effects of these modifications on neurodegeneration induced by Aß alone [Iijima et. al., PNAS, 2004. p 6623], tau [Wittmann et. al., Science, 2001 p 711] and other neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson’s and spinocerebellar ataxia 3 (SCA3). In addition to fly genetics and husbandry, specific techniques designed to test behavioural changes, memory/learning deficiencies and retinal degeneration have been designed for use in this project. The ideal candidate is a highly motivated student with top grades, talent and creativity who is willing to visit collaborating laboratories in the course of his/her PhD.

(2) In vivo imaging of synaptic APP processing

In this Ph.D. project in vivo imaging [Füger et al., Nature Protocols 2007. p 3285; Rasse et. al., Nature Neuroscience 2005. p 898] and structural analysis [Kittel et. al., Science 2006. p 1051] will be combined to study, in vivo, how soluble fragments of APP-related proteins effect synapse formation, maturation and elimination at the Drosophila neuromuscular junction. The mechanism by which misregulated APP/APPL function leads to pathological events and subsequent symptoms of neurodegeneration will be investigated. Studying this effect in vivo will allow the temporal sequence of cellular events to be deciphered. Investigations shall furthermore clarify the exact cellular localization and functional relevance of APP/APPL processing for synaptic function. The ideal candidate is a highly motivated student with top grades, talent and creativity who is willing to visit collaborating laboratories in the course of his/her PhD.

The two advertised positions are financed by the German Research Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) in Tuebingen and the Graduate Training Center Centre of Neuroscience at the University of Tuebingen, Germany. Highly qualified graduate students are invited to apply for this 2-years scholarship that can be extended to a third year. The scholarships are funded by the German Helmholtz Research Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases. The research findings should eventually translate into novel diagnostic, preventive, and therapeutic strategies.

Contact: Tobias Rasse

tobias.rasse[ at ]uni-tuebingen.de

www.hih-tuebingen.de/synaptic-plasticity/

Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
This scholarship program named Davis Scholarships

4 four-year Ph.D. full scholarships available in the fall of 2010.

Mrs. Kathryn Davis, an HEI alumna who obtained her PhD in 1934, is founding four Ph.D. full scholarships for a four-year period.

Two of these grants (Kathryn Davis Grant and Shelby Cullom Davis Grant) are intended for students of any nationality

- having completed a degree programme in an American university.

Two other grants (Davis Grants) are intended for

- two students coming from a Muslim country .

These grants will be attributed in the Spring of 2010 to students starting their PhD programme in September 2010 at the Institute exclusively. They will exempt them from tuition fees and provide a living allowance of 15000 CHF per year. They will last for a period of four years and will be renewed each year depending on the thesis progress.

Contact

Mrs Stéfanie Onofri
+41 22 908 43 44
Download a scholarship request form [pdf]

The “Chinese Government Scholarships – Postgraduate Study

Project”, set up by the Ministry of Education of China (MOE), is intended to provide support for building universities to an international high level, and to promote Chinese higher education. Enrolment is managed directly by China’s key universities. The MOE has entrusted the China Scholarship Council (CSC) with maintaining the enrolment records and handling the routine management.

Categories of applicants and duration of scholarship

Note: Courses start in September 2010. In principle, the duration of the scholarship as specified at the time of admission can NOT be extended. However, if scholarship students take a one-year Chinese language course first, their scholarship will be extended for one year.

Scholarship details

1. Full scholarship:

- Exemption from registration fees, tuition fees, laboratory experiment fees, any internship fees, and costs of basic course materials and accommodation on campus;

- Living allowance;

- One-off settlement subsidy provided following registration;

- Out-patient medical services charges together with membership of the national Comprehensive Medical Insurance and Benefit Plan for International Students in China.

Notes:

1) Students are personally liable for expenditure on any laboratory experiments or internship costs over and above those arranged by the university.

2) Students are personally liable for expenditure on any course or other materials over and above those prescribed by the host institution.

3) A monthly living allowance is paid by the host institution to scholarship students at the following rates (CNY Yuan per month):

- Master’s degree students: CNY 1,700 Yuan

- Doctoral students: CNY 2,000 Yuan

4) The one-off settlement subsidy for new students who enrol for one or more years will be of CNY 1,500

5) Re-imbursement of out-patient medical services refers to such expenses incurred at the institution’s hospital or at a hospital appointed by the institution. Students may be required to pay a certain percentage of such expenses in accordance with the relevant regulations imposed by the host institution.

6) The Comprehensive Medical Insurance and Benefit Plan for International Students in China is provided by MOE to cover hospitalisation in the event of serious illness or accidental injury.

7) Students are personally liable for their international travel expenses

Eligibility

Accommodation

The overseas student apartments in Xiamen Campus are set in picturesque surroundings and enjoy sea views and fresh sea air. The buildings are fully-equipped with modern facilities, including telephones, air-conditioning, cable TV, Internet access points and separate bathrooms.

Accommodation is arranged overall by the University. Chinese Government Scholarship students, master’s students are normally accommodated in 2-person rooms, while doctoral students have single rooms.

Contact information

Address: Admissions Office of Xiamen University

Xiamen University, 361005 Fujian Province, P.R. China

Tel: +86592 2188888 2184792 Fax: +86592 218 0256

Email: admissions@xmu.edu.cn

Application deadline: from Nov. 1 2009 to Jan.15 2010.

Further Scholarship Information and Application

Undergraduate scholarships for students from Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa, and Thailand

Edinburgh Global Undergraduate Scholarships

Up to 10 undergraduate scholarships are offered to students for undergraduate study

in any subject offered by the University. The scholarships will be worth £1,000 per year and will be tenable for the duration of the programme of study.

Eligibility

The scholarships are competitive and will be awarded to students who are accepted for admission on a full-time basis for undergraduate study at the University of Edinburgh. Applicants must be nationals of one of the following countries:

* Brunei Darussalam

* Canada

* Hong Kong

* Japan

* Malaysia

* Singapore

* South Africa

* Thailand

The scholarship will be awarded broadly on the basis of academic merit.

The scholarship is not available to students already on programme.

Application Procedure

Eligible applicants should complete an online scholarship application

Alternatively applicants can request a paper application form from:

The Scholarships and Student Finance Office

The University of Edinburgh

Old College

South Bridge

Edinburgh EH8 9YL

E-mail: scholarships@ed.ac.uk

Telephone: +44 131 651 4070

Completed application forms must be returned to the Scholarships and Student Finance Office no later than 17 June 2010.

Selection Procedure

A University of Edinburgh Selection Committee will meet in early July 2010 to select the scholarship holders. The winners of the scholarship will be announced in mid July 2010.