TROPIMUNDOis an EC-funded and excellence-labebeled Erasmus Mundus Masters Course inTropical Biodiversity and Ecosystems. We aim to bring together expert HigherEducation Institutes (HEI), with long-standing worldwide expertise in tropicalrainforests and woodlands and in tropical coastal ecosystems. TROPIMUNDOstudents are able to concentrate on botany, zoology and integrative ecosystemapproaches in institutions worldwide in 2 Master years, of which an entiresemester is spent in the tropics. Specialisation is possible on the evolutionof tropical flora and vegetation, on faunistic assemblages, on informaticstools to treat and manage biodiversity data and databases (biogeographical,genetical, geographical information systems) including the management andconservation of historic collections such as herbarium sheets, on the study ofdiversity, dynamics and evolution of tropical and subtropical ecosystems (witha focus on four related systems, namely tropical rainforests and woodlands,mangrove forests, seagrass beds and coral reefs, including the interactionsbetween flora, fauna, man and the environment within and between each of theseadjacent ecosystems), on conservation and restoration ecology of naturalhabitats and their biodiversity including competences in sustainable managementand governance of biodiversity, and finally, on tropical ethnobotany,exploitation and valorisation of natural resources and conservation oftraditional ecological knowledge.

HOW TO APPLY

The first call for 2017-2018 applicants in needof a scholarship (open to all nationalities) is now open and will close 30November 2016 (deadline).
Detailed information on TROPIMUNDO facts, conditions, procedures, deadlines,etc... is available in the online Information and Application Module.
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This first TROPIMUNDO call is for scholarship seekers or self-fundedapplicants and will be evaluated as abatch after the deadline. If any available places remain a second call forTROPIMUNDO applications will be opened in the first trimester of 2017,only for self-funded applicants from all countries. Second callapplications will be treated on a first come first served basis. The deadlinefor submission of second call applications will be 30 June2017 for Non-EU and for EU students (preferably originating from one of themember states of the European Union and with a Bachelor diploma obtained froman EU member state) or until all available places have been exhausted.
Admissions may be done conditional of obtaining a Bachelor diploma or languageproof before the start of the academic year.
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The call for 2018-2019 will open by the end of September 2017.

More details: http://www.tropimundo.eu/