News

• May 8th, 2012. The final decision who has been selected as scholarship holder is still with the Eurpean Agency. As soon as we receive the approved Ranking List the applicants will be informed! In the meantime we strongly encourage all applicants to look for additional funding to be in any case able to join AstroMundus.
• December 9th, 2011. The call for applications for the third edition of the AstroMundus Master Course has been closed on Nov. 30th. The results of the ongoing student selection are expected to be known by mid-April 2012.
• July 15th, 2011. Call for applications, AstroMundus third edition. Applications for the course starting in Sept. 2012 should be submitted after Aug. 1st, 2011 and no later than Nov. 30th, 2011.
• February 10th, 2011. Retreat in Asiago, Italy, July 1st to 4th, 2011. All students of the first edition of the AstroMundus Masters Course and lecturers from all 5 partner institutes will participate in a retreat at the Asiago Astrophysical Observatory (University of Padova), in the Italian Prealps. Presentations of Master thesis topics by the lecturers, as well as presentations by the students, exercises at the telescopes and a social programme including a small hike are foreseen.
• February 7th, 2011. The call for applications for the second edition of the AstroMundus Master Course has been closed on January 31st. The results of the ongoing student selection are expected to be known by mid-April 2011.
• December 7th, 2010. Extended application deadline for EU students! The deadline for applications to the AstroMundus Masters Course edition starting in September 2011 has been extended until January 31st, 2010 for EU students and for those non-EU students who already spent at least 12 months in Europe during the last 5 years. These applicants will compete for the assignment of Category B scholarships.
• August 1st, 2010. The call for applications to the AstroMundus Masters Course edition starting in September 2011 is now open. The deadline is November 30th, 2010 for both non-EU and EU students.
• June 29th, 2010. AstroMundus will be represented in the exhibition area at the Joint European and National Astronomy Meeting JENAM 2010, September 6th - 10th, Lisbon, Portugal.
• The 2010 meeting of the AstroMundus Board took place at Innsbruck on May 17th 2010.
• The first meeting of the consortium for AstroMundus, the Erasmus Mundus Masters Course in Astrophysics, took place at Innsbruck on August 31st 2009.