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TRIBOS+ Consortium institutions invite visiting scholars of recognized excellence to carry out research activities, teaching/lecturing, Master thesis support, academic/professional networking, etc. The TRIBOS+ Education Committee chooses the best candidates on the basis of CVs, publications, academic merit, motivation, recommendations, language skills, etc. The TRIBOS+ Consortium institutes decide on the duration of each visit based on student activities, which is communicated to the visiting scholars in advance. Visiting scholars’ applications are open for all nationalities.

ELIGIBILITY

• Scholars must be in possession of a Ph.D. degree and demonstrate outstanding academic and/or professional experience.

• Scholars must bring concrete added value to the delivery of the TRIBOS+ programme.

OBLIGATIONS

Visiting Scholars within the TRIBOS+ programme must:

• Commit themselves to actively participating in the Master's course activities.
• Spend 4 to 7 consecutive calendar days (=one week) period at one of the TRIBOS+ consortium institutes (the duration of each individual visit will be decided upon by the Consortium annually).
• Carry out teaching, research, student tutoring, and Master thesis support activities.
• Bring concrete added value to the course and students (through the teaching of specific classes, leading and participating in seminars or workshops, monitoring and tutoring student research/project activities, participating in thesis reviews, preparing new teaching modules, etc.).
• Contribute, after their visiting scholar activities, to the promotion and dissemination of the Erasmus Mundus Programme in general, and the TRIBOS+ Master programme in particular.

Application deadline: 31 May & 31 October 2022

List of documents to be submitted

• Filled out application form
• Recent CV including a list of publications and taught courses;
• Two samples of your recent publications;
• Transferable skills workshop plan including learning outcomes (optional)
• All the documents must be submitted via email to info@master-tribos.eu.

Further information and formal inquiries

Additional information can be obtained from Professor Mitjan Kalin, programme coordinator based at the University of Ljubljana, via email to mitjan.kalin@tint.fs.uni-lj.si. 

 

Partners

The key academic groups of TRIBOS consortium are leading and world renown in their own field of Tribology and Surface engineering. They are very complementary from point of view of surfaces, lubricants and interfaces, as well as engineering component design. Thus, their involvement in a single programme enables integration of the whole range of tribology sub-areas required for successful application solutions.