Erasmus Mundus Action 1 Compendium 2009 - EACEA - Europa

Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses
EMQAL
European Joint Master in Quality in Analytical Laboratories
Duration: 1 year 6 months
Course description:
Analytical laboratories play an increasingly important role in modern societies: the analysis of drinking
water and foods is essential to assure public health; medical decisions must be supported by clinical
analysis, environmental analysis support national and international environmental policies, even court
trial decisions are based on the results of forensic analysis.
Laboratories are required to adopt quality systems conforming to international standards, in order to
assure that results are reliable and comparable worldwide. The European Master in Quality in
Analytical Laboratories prepares professionals for analytical laboratories, focusing on laboratory
management and quality systems, along with complementing their technical knowledge.
The admission criteria are a first cycle higher education degree (min 180 ECTS) from a European or
non-European university in appropriate disciplines such as Health Sciences, Chemical and
Biochemical Sciences, Biological Sciences or Environmental Sciences.
The programme duration is 18 month (90 ECTS), consisting of a 1 year (60 ECTS) taught course and
a 6 months Project and Thesis (30 ECTS). The main language of instruction is English. Each
university also offers intensive language instruction prior to the programme, as well as local language
training during the course. A wide choice of modules enables students to acquire competencies in
Laboratory Management applied in a variety of fields: water, food, biochemical or clinical analysis.
This allows the student to pursue fields that are most interesting for his/her professional development.
The study programme lectures are grouped into specialist modules on particular fields of expertise in
Quality Management, Analytical Methods and Data Analysis.
The consortium includes five leading European Research institutions: University of Algarve
(coordinator); Gdansk University of Technology, University of Bergen, University of Barcelona,
University of Cadiz. The location of the taught programme rotates every year, as it is hosted by
different European participating institutions in order to promote Teaching Staff Mobility.
Students must gain a minimum of 30 of their credits in a second participating European university.
The Qualification obtained is a European Joint Master Degree in Quality in Analytical Laboratories
which is awarded by the European universities that the student visited as part of the ERASMUS
MUNDUS programme. Details of the modules and research projects that were followed by the
students are given in a Diploma Supplement.
Website: http://cursos.ualg.pt/emqal
Partners:
University of Algarve, Portugal (Co-ordinating institution)
Gdansk University of Technology, Poland
University of Bergen, Norway
University of Barcelona, Spain
University of Cadiz, Spain
Contact:
Isabel Cavaco
University of Algarve
Campus de Gambelas
8005-139 Faro, PORTUGAL
icavaco@ualg.pt
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