Student of UPH Electrical Engineering Received European Union Scholarship

 Ivan Kusumo

This scholarship is one of many opportunities that were obtained by UPH Electrical Engineering for its involvement in the Erasmus Mundus LEADERS (Leading Mobility between Europe and Asia in Developing Engineering Education and Research) project. The Electrical Engineering Study Program of UPH is a partner in a consortium of 22 universities, which consists of 7 European universities, and the rest being Asian universities, who obtained 2,7 Million EUR grants for the Erasmus Mundus LEADERS or Erasmus+ LEADERS project from The European Commission. This grant is used for financing students? and researchers? mobility between the two continents, which took form in student exchange scholarships for under graduate, graduate, and Ph.D., as well as Post-Doctoral research project and staff exchange.

According to Dr. Henri P. Uranus, a lecturer in UPH Electrical Engineering, who is also Indonesia?s Contact Person for the project, even as a partner, it doesn?t necessarily means that EM LEADERS scholarship can be easily obtained.

?This scholarship is very competitive. Each year, this scholarship will open an online admission. Each applicant has to include academic transcripts, motivation letter, recommendation letter from a professor of the host university, and a study plan, which will be assessed by a committee from the 22 universities. The selection process is very strict, open, and fair,? said Henri.

However, as a partner, UPH has the privilege to be in the TG1 (Target Group 1) category, while other universities in Indonesia will be in the TG2 and TG3 category. Within those target groups, Indonesian applicants would compete against applicants from other countries in the same group, such as Sri Lanka, India, Malaysia, Maldives, Philippines, Thailand, China and North Korea, to obtain this scholarship.

For this 3^rd cohort, which is also the last cohort for the 4-year grants, there are 82 participants who are eligible for only 22 mobilities (6 for under graduate student exchange, 6 for MSc student exchange, 2 for PhD Asia to EU student exchange, 2 for PhD EU to Asia student exchange, 2 for Post-Doc EU to Asia and 4 for staff exchange) which will be funded. 

Another benefit of UPH Electrical Engineering as a partner of Erasmus Mundus LEADERS is the opportunity to become a destination for staff exchange for researchers from European universities.  Just as Dr. Ian Grout, a lecturer of Electrical Engineering of University of Limerick, Ireland, who took advantage of the EM LEADERS staff exchange scholarship by visiting UPH Electrical Engineering for two months in 2016 and conducting several workshops and seminar: seminar on remote laboratories, workshop on FPGA and workshop on Arduino for Signal Processing. (HU)