The admission process for the "Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate in Distributed Computing" (EMJD-DC) is open, closing on January 23, 2012. This International joint Doctoral School in Distributed Computing offers each year (during 5 consecutive years) around 10 fellowships for doctoral studies.

EMJD-DC intends to become a permanent reference model for international doctoral studies in Distributed Systems and beyond. Students carry out their research work over up to four years in two universities from different countries, with additional mobility to industry in most projects. Joint training schools will cover both scientific topics and transferable skills, such as project and scientific management, communication, innovation techniques. EMJD-DC will initially award double degrees, however a task will study pathways to the implementation of a Joint Degree.

The joint doctorate is a partnership coordinated by the Distributed Systems group at DAC-UPC, with the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium; Instituto Superior Técnico IST, Portugal; Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan KTH, Sweden; and a number of industrial research organizations.

Contact: Leandro Navarro (emjd-dc@ac.upc.edu)