Source: http://www.tropimundo.eu/



TROPIMUNDO is an EC-funded and excellence-labelled Erasmus Mundus Masters Course in Tropical Biodiversity and Ecosystems. We aim to bring together expert Higher Education Institutes (HEI), with long-standing worldwide expertise in tropical rainforests and woodlands and in tropical coastal ecosystems. TROPIMUNDO students are able to concentrate on botany, zoology and integrative ecosystem approaches in institutions worldwide in 2 Master years, of which an entire semester is spent in the tropics. Specialisation is possible on the evolution of tropical flora and vegetation, on faunistic assemblages, on informatics tools to treat and manage biodiversity data and databases (biogeographical, genetical, geographical information systems) including the management and conservation of historic collections such as herbarium sheets, on the study of diversity, dynamics and evolution of tropical and subtropical ecosystems (with a focus on four related systems, namely tropical rainforests and woodlands, mangrove forests, seagrass beds and coral reefs, including the interactions between flora, fauna, man and the environment within and between each of these adjacent ecosystems), on conservation and restoration ecology of natural habitats and their biodiversity including competences in sustainable management and governance of biodiversity, and finally, on tropical ethnobotany, exploitation and valorisation of natural resources and conservation of traditional ecological knowledge.

The first call for 2017-2018 applicants in need of a scholarship (open to all nationalities) is now open and will close 30 November 2016 (deadline).

Detailed information on TROPIMUNDO facts, conditions, procedures, deadlines, etc... is available in the online Information and Application Module.

This first TROPIMUNDO call is for scholarship seekers or self-funded applicants and will be evaluated as a batch after the deadline. If any available places remain a second call for TROPIMUNDO applications will be opened in the first trimester of 2017, only for self-funded applicants from all countries. Second call applications will be treated on a first come first served basis. The deadline for submission of second call applications will be 30 June 2017 for Non-EU and for EU students (preferably originating from one of the member states of the European Union and with a Bachelor diploma obtained from an EU member state) or until all available places have been exhausted.

Admissions may be done conditional of obtaining a Bachelor diploma or language proof before the start of the academic year.

The call for 2018-2019 will open by the end of September 2017.