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The general structure of the curriculum is that students complete a full academic year in the first university, and then continue with further courses at the second university during the second year where they also complete their thesis project before the end of the second year. This document mainly describes the degree requirements for all three universities to assist students with putting together their personal study plans considering the constraints of both universities they will be visiting.
While in Edinburgh, no matter whether Edinburgh is your first or second university, you have to take 50 ECTS (100 Scottish credits) of courses (excluding the project & dissertation) throughout the year.
Course choices are subject to the following constraints:Students who participate in IRR are assigned to a study group in Semester 1. These groups are arranged according to the Edinburgh MSc (not EuMI!) specialisms, and to ensure a good choice of review group, EuMI students are required to choose their IRR preferences from the following lists:
Provided the above constraints are respected, the remaining courses will depend on your specialism.
Information on compulsory and optional courses by specialism.
The final thesis (project & dissertation in Edinburgh terminology) is a significant part of the EuMI degree programme. It is always administered by the second university, i.e. it is formally taken and submitted at that university according to that university's local rules. An additional supervisor is assigned by the first university who ensures that it is also of acceptable standard for that university. This additional supervisor also acts as second marker, applying the assessment regulations and marking criteria of the second university. After agreeing on a project with the main supervisor, you must send the second supervisor a thesis research proposal at least three months prior to submission that she or he has to approve. If Edinburgh is your second university this will be the IRP submission document (to be forwarded to the supervisor at the other university after submission). If not, you have to prepare a research proposal of a similar nature (which is not submitted as a formal assignment piece of coursework - more information about this is available from the IRP web page; specific guidelines regarding proposal structure can be found here). If the initial proposal fails to get approval from the co-supervisor, the supervisors will advise you on how to modify the proposal to produce a project description that is acceptable to both sides.
If Edinburgh is your second university, you will start the project as every Edinburgh MSc student (taking the MSc Dissertation (DISS) course) in terms of topic choice, assigning supervisors, etc. Once every student is assigned a project topic, the course organiser will aid in finding an appropriate additional supervisor at the first university. You will complete work on the project while in Edinburgh and submit it at the end of the second year (where the normal Edinburgh submission deadline - usually at the end of August - applies).
If Edinburgh is your first university, you should contact the EuMI course organiser as soon as possible after you have been assigned a project/thesis in Aachen or Trento in your second year of study, so that a suitable additional supervisor from Edinburgh can be identified (you may of course want to make contacts with potentially relevant Edinburgh people before you go abroad). The thesis is worth 30 ECTS. The ECTS total given below for individual curricula does not include the thesis or credit for courses that count toward the thesis (in Trento the 30 ECTS are composed of 18 ECTS for the thesis, 6 ECTS for a specialist thesis-related course and 6 ECTS for a thesis-related "internship" course).
IMPORTANT NOTE: In Trento and Aachen, the overall duration for completion of the thesis is six rather than three months, and it is often the case that projects take longer than this in practice. It is important to complete the project within the overall two-year period given that exceeding two years of study can only be allowed by special permission.
As a total number of 90 ECTS is required for an Edinburgh MSc and 50 ECTS of coursework are completed in Edinburgh with further 30 ECTS obtained for the project and dissertation (regardless of the first/second university combination), 10 ECTS of courses have to be recognised from Trento/Aachen.
For this, a weighted average of all "eligible courses" from Aachen is given credit for in Edinburgh worth 10 ECTS, where eligible courses are (i) courses that have been actually taken in Trento or Aachen, (ii) courses for which no equivalent courses (see below) were taken in Edinburgh and (ii) courses that are not language, culture, "lab" or "seminar" courses.
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