Japan-Europe Master on Advanced Robotics

Call reference: EAC/A03/2018

Programme title: Erasmus+ Programme

Key Action: Learning Mobility of Individuals

Action Type: Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degrees

Reference number: 612972-EPP-1-2019-1-FR-EPPKA1-JMD-MOB-JP

Project title: Japan-Europe Master on Advanced Robotics

Summary

The Japan-Europe Master on Advanced Robotics (JEMARO) is a 2-years integrated programme (120 ECTS or 30 Japanese Credits) between all the members of the consortium and its goal is to allow students to better understand different Robotics perspectives (related to both Academia and Industry) across Europe (France, Italy, Poland and Spain) and Asia (Japan and China). This will be achieved by developing common strategies for knowledge sharing and for enforcing the quality of education in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.To reach the objectives, the JEMARO consortium has been jointly designed, and will be implemented and fully supported, by 4 major Higher Education Institutions in Japan and Europe awarding master’s degrees: Keio University (Japanese Coordinator), Japan, Ecole Centrale de Nantes (European Coordinator), France, University of Genoa, Italy, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland. 2 HEIs as Associated Partners, that will be involved in lectures, students’ internships, PhD program and strategy committee: Universitat Jaume I, Spain, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. Besides the student employability target, the JEMARO consortium will also offer an innovative educational approach through the involvement of teaching staff coming from 8 industrial partners: YASKAWA, Soft Servo Systems, NTT Data, Motion Lib, Inc., BA Systems, PIAP-Space, PIAP, IRT Jules Verne.JEMARO will be the first joint Japan-Europe programme offering high-level academic and industrial training on the whole span of Robotics (Mathematical modelling, Control engineering, Computer engineering, Mechanical design) with the technological specialization of the associated industrial partners. All course-units of JEMARO will be taught in English, and they are already mutually recognised by the all the consortium partners within Local Master Tracks. All activities will be organized and implemented on a common agreement basis and by integrating the educational rules differences/constraints between Japan and Europe. The student mobility path is symmetric and will help the students to build a “promotion spirit”: if a whole year is spent in Europe in one of the European partners, the other one will be necessarily spent in Japan and vice-versa, so all students will be at the same time in the Japanese institution.Students that graduate from JEMARO master’s course will obtain two masters degrees, one from a European country and the other one from Japan (Keio University). The degrees are officially recognised and give full access to PhD study programmes.Admission Requirements: The masters course applies to Japanese, European and third country-students who already hold a first university degree after at least three years of university studies, with 180 ECTS or 45 Japanese Credits, in a field related to Robotics area such as: automatic control, computer science, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and applied mathematics. The applicants have to be fluent in English.