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Tuition Fees
The candidate engages herself to pay
the tuition fees (€11.800 for Category
A applicants and €10.000 for Category
B applicants a year *).
A fee waiver will be applied to
candidates receiving EACEA grant for
a total fee amount € 7.200 a year.
Grants
Monthly payments are speci�ed
(12 installments of €2.800 each as
employment contract gross salary
and of €600 a month as �xed
contribution for laboratory-based
course) together with the lump
sum (€ 7.500) for traveling
expenses (only Category A
candidates).
* see website
Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate in Interactive and Cognitive Environments
Joint Doctorate in Interactive & Cognitive Environments EMJD ICE
Università degli Studi di Genova , Queen Mary University of London, Universitat Politècnica
de Catalunya, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Universität Klagenfurt
ICE o�ers PhD candidates an education programme in the
�eld of research related to computer science, electronic and
telecommunication engineering, and industrial design.
Candidates must hold a Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree or
equivalent tile with in-depth knowledge and understanding of
the principles of ICT engineering.
The programme lasts three years and contains a mobility
scheme for training students at di�erent universities.
www.icephd.org
icephd@dibe.unige.it

ICE Mobility Scheme
The EMJD ICE course lasts three years.
During this period a mobility scheme
ensures that students will spend
training / research periods in at least
two di�erent higher education institutions
(denoted as primary and secondary
institutions).
Primary Institution
Year 1 + 1/2
Compulsory
+
Secondary Institution
Year 1
Compulsory
+
Partner Institution
6 Months
At Student’s Choice
UNIGE
Once selected the primary institution,
the candidate will have to spend
at least one year and a half in this institution
(mandatory).
Each candidate will have to spend at
least one year in the secondary institution
(mandatory).
The residuary period (six months)
might be divided among other partner
universities.
ICE Consortium
Università degli Studi di Genova
UNIGE - http://www.unige.it
Queen Mary, University of London
QMUL - http://www.qmul.ac.uk
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
UPC - http://www.upc.es
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
TU/e - http://w3.tue.nl
Universität Klagenfurt
UNI-KLU - http://www.uni-klu.ac.at
QMUL
Research Areas
Assistive Technologies (AsT)
Network Embedded Systems (NES)
People Inspired Technologies (PIT)
Designed Intelligence (DI)
Multi-sensor Surveillance (MuS)
Research Topics
Main research topics of EMJD ICE
course are:
Pervasive Computing; Multimedia
systems and Simulation
Environments; Arti�cial Intelligence
and Cognitive Systems; Digital
Signal Processing; Distributed and
Mobile Systems; Human-Computer
Interaction; Multimedia Networks;
Machine Learning; Data Mining;
Cognitive Data Fusion; Professional
Industrial Design
UPC
Summer School
Every year, a Summer School (that
will last at least one week) will be organized
in di�erent sessions, involving
candidates, teaching sta� and
external experts coming both from
academia and industry.
Partnerships
26 partners worldwide, coming both
from the industrial and the academic
sector, have already expressed their
support to EMJD ICE demonstrating
the international relevance of the
course.
TU/e
UNI-KLU