NC State part of European Commission scholarship program
The College of Engineering at North Carolina State University is a partner in a new international program designed to encourage cooperation between engineering researchers at universities in North America and Europe.
The program, known as the Transatlantic Partnership for Excellence in Engineering (TEE), is funded by the European Commission. TEE offers scholarship exchange opportunities for doctoral students, post doctoral researchers, and academic staff at 11 universities in the US, Canada and Europe.
“The goal of the program is to connect the faculty across the Atlantic by those exchange students so that they can build effective teams to solve global programs,” said Dr. Richard Keltie, associate dean of research and graduate programs in the College.
The program covers travel expenses, academic fees and health insurance and provides a monthly allowance for participants. Participants spend anywhere from six months to two years at a partner university.
The call for applications for the first cohort opens this month. Applicants to the second cohort should be able to apply by the end of 2012.
The rest of the partners are the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California-Davis in the US; the University of British Columbia and McGill University in Canada; Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia in Spain; the University of Cambridge in United Kingdom; Universitá degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza” in Italy; Technische Universität Berlin in Germany; Ghent University in Belgium; and Université Paris-Sud 11 in France.
