MOBILITY

Students select a mobility path before the start of the programme, which determines the universities in which they will study during the first three semesters. Concretely, students spend their 1^st and 3^rd semester at UPV/EHU and UWasa (the order depending on the chosen mobility path) and make a choice between UMONS and IHU for the second semester. The fourth semester is entirely dedicated to the preparation of the Master Thesis, which must be mainly supervized by one of the universities of the student’s mobility path.

The type of mobility, which is promoted within the EMJM SMACCs, is compulsory physical mobility. The consortium believes indeed that cultural blending is a key element of the Erasmus Mundus programme, which cannot be achieved correctly in case of remote teaching. Nevertheless, distance learning may be employed in specific cases: for including seminars given by renowned guest-speakers from academia/industry who cannot travel physically, in case of new sanitary restrictions, etc

Each year, partner universities organize in turn a summer school that takes place in July, and a Winter Schol that takes place in January. SMACCs students must participate to at least one Summer School and one Winter School during their curriculum.