Call for Applications
Fellowships for European Doctoral School of Demography
The European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) invites applications for school year 2011-2012.
Entering its seventh successful year, the EDSD is an eleven-month program that is offered every year, with the goal to provide students in the first year of their doctoral studies with an appropriate high-level education in demography. Students will acquire a solid knowledge base on causes and consequences of demographic change, population data, statistical and mathematical demography, as well as modeling, simulation and forecasting. The School's courses are structured in such a way that the students work on precise formulation of a thesis topic and early steps of their dissertations. The language of the School is English.
In the upcoming school year the School will be held at two different locations.
The preparatory courses (from early September mid-October) will be offered at
the Max Planck Institute for Demographic
Research in Rostock, Germany. The core courses (from mid-October to end
of July) will be held at the Centre
for Demographic Studies at Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.
Successful completion of the School results in a Master in demography offered by Autonomous University of Barcelona as well as a European Research Certificate of Demography provided under the auspices of the European Association for Population Studies (EAPS).
The EDSD does not charge fees. Several European research institutes and universities provide full fellowships for all students accepted to the program.
The application deadline is April 15, 2011.
Please visit our website at http://www.eds-demography.org
for more information on the EDSD curriculum and application instructions.
How to apply:
Students with an excellent MA degree or its equivalent are eligible to apply for a fellowship to the EDSD program.
There is no official application form. Instead, applicants are requested to submit the documents described below.
All applications must be made by email. Applications should be sent to: EDSD@ekh.lu.se
(1) Curriculum Vitae
This should include information on your educational and work history, language abilities and extracurricular interests, as well as a list of your scholarly publications.
(2) One recent letter of recommendation
Request this letter from a person qualified to evaluate your academic and professional qualifications, familiar with your academic achievement and in a position to assess your potential for success in the EDSD.
(3) Statement of purpose
The Statement of Purpose should be no longer than five double-spaced pages. It should provide a clear picture of your academic and professional interests, background and plans. It should also describe how your interests fit in with the EDSD program. Please include a detailed description of your knowledge of mathematics, statistics, and computer programming. You may also use the Statement of Purpose to underscore aspects of your personal and professional experience that are relevant to your application and that might not be obvious to a reader of your transcripts and curriculum vitae.
(4) Transcripts
Request the Registrar of each college or university you have attended to provide you with one official transcript and include copies of all transcripts with your application. If a transcript is not issued in English, please provide an English translation.
(5) MA/BA/Diploma certificates
Provide a photocopy of each University degree certificate earned.
(6) Certification of English language proficiency
Students seeking admission to EDSD should have an adequate command of English.
All applicants who are neither native English speaker nor have earned a degree
at a University in which the language of instruction was English are urgently
requested to submit certification of their English proficiency. We accept TOEFL
or CAE test scores. The minimum TOEFL score required is 600 on the paper-based
or 250 on the computer-based test. If you cannot provide certification of your
English proficiency you should include a few sentences in your Statement of
Purpose explaining why you think your English is good enough.
Email inquiries concerning the application process should also be sent to:
EDSD@ekh.lu.se
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