Joint International Doctoral (Ph.

D) degree in Law, Science and Technology

Joint International Doctoral (Ph.D.) Degree in Law, Science

and Technology

APPLICATION FORM 2012/2013

Action 1 EMJD
CATEGORY A
Category A: doctoral candidates who come from a country other than a Member State of the
European Union, an EEA-EFTA State (i.e. Iceland, Norway and Lichtenstein), and who are not
residents nor have carried out their main activity (studies, work, etc.) for more than a total of 12
months over the last five years in one of these countries. The only exception to this rule applies to
Third-Country doctoral candidates who have previously received an Erasmus Mundus masters
scholarship in order to follow an EMMC

(We recommend keeping photocopies of your application)

Deadline for application February 11, 2012

You should make sure that the application reaches us by the deadline

Joint International Doctoral (Ph.D) degree in Law, Science and Technology

1. PERSONAL DETAILS
(Please include in annex 9 a copy of your passport and in annex 8, 1 passport-sized photographs
Full Name (Family Name): _____________________________________________________
First Name (Given Name): _____________________________________________________
Date of Birth: (DD/MM/YYYY)____________________

Gender: Male Female

Place of Birth: _____________________________________________________

Nationality: _____________________________________________________
Do you have a European resident permit? yes
no
Please specify:
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Do you need a visa for Europe?
Please specify:

yes

no

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Note: you do not need a visa if you are a citizen of one of the countries belonging to the European
Union or of: Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Iceland, Norway, Japan, Australia, New Zealand,
Canada or the USA. Citizens of the above mentioned countries should however apply for a resident
permit after arrival.
Please note that it is your responsibility to obtain a visa once accepted for this program

2. CONTACT INFORMATION/ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE:

Street, number: ____________________________________________________________
P.O. Box: ________________________________ City___________________________
Country: ___________________________ Postal Code: ___________________________
Phone Number: ___________________________ Fax Number: _____________________
E-mail: ___________________________________________________________________
Skype ID: ___________________________________________________________________

Joint International Doctoral (Ph.D) degree in Law, Science and Technology

3. ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:
(Please include in annex 2 a copy of all academic degrees or professional diplomas and
academic transcripts certified or notarized.)
A/ Undergraduate Degree(s):
Type of degree: ________________________________________________________________
Name of institution: _____________________________________________________________
Field: ________________________________________________________________________
Date of graduation: ______________________________________________________________
B/ (Post)-Graduate Degree(s):
Type of degree: _________________________________________________________________
Name of institution: ______________________________________________________________
Field: _________________________________________________________________________
Specialization: __________________________________________________________________
Date of graduation: ______________________________________________________________
If you have obtained more than one degree, please enclose a list below (type of degree, Name of the
Institution, Field, Date of graduation):
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4. PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS1:
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Minimum 2 years relevant professional experience in a field related to the doctorate programme.

Joint International Doctoral (Ph.D) degree in Law, Science and Technology

(Please include in annex 1 a copy of your curriculum vitae in your

application (Standard European Format only, on a separate page)
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- EMPLOYMENT INFORMATION
(Please include in annex 7 a work certificate covering at least 2 years (full time) of professional
experience)
A/ Last or current employer: _____________________________________________________
Type of organisation: _____________________________________________________________
Place of work: __________________________________________________________________
Year of entry: _________________________________ Year of leaving: _____________________
Position held: _____________________ Reason for leaving: ______________________________
Main duties: ____________________________________________________________________
B/ Previous employer: __________________________________________________________
Type of organisation: _____________________________________________________________
Place of work: __________________________________________________________________
Year of entry: _________________________________ Year of leaving: _____________________
Position held: _____________________ Reason for leaving: ______________________________
Main duties: ____________________________________________________________________
C/Previous employer: ___________________________________________________________
Type of organisation: _____________________________________________________________
Place of work: __________________________________________________________________
Year of entry: _________________________________ Year of leaving: _____________________
Position held: _____________________ Reason for leaving: ______________________________
Main duties: ____________________________________________________________________
- Other professional information:
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- Relevant skills acquired:
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5. PLEASE DESCRIBE ANY COURSES/STUDIES YOU HAVE ATTENDED
RECENTLY, INCLUDING DATES AND A BRIEF DESCRIPTION.
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6. LANGUAGES
(Please insert in annex 6)
A/ English Language Proficiency:
IELTS min: 6.5; TOEFL min: 220 CBT, 550 PBT, 80 iBT; TOEIC min: 780, Cambridge min. C.A.E,
Trinity min. GESE and ISE Intermediate, GRE min. Verbal Reasoning. 480, Quantitative Reasoning
600, Analytical Writing 4.0 or, for those who studied in countries where the English is the official
language, an official letter stating that your university studies were undertaken in English.
Date of title:
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Score obtained:
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B/ Other languages
Language

Oral
comprehension

Speaking

Reading

Writing

A: Fluent
B: Advanced
C: Intermediary
D: Beginner
7. REFERENCES
(Please include in annex 5, one or two recommendation letters in your application)
1) Name: ______________________________________________________________________
Organisation: __________________________________________________________________
Address: ______________________________________________________________________
Position: ______________________________________________________________________
Email: ________________________________________________________________________
Telephone: ____________________________________________________________________

2) Name: _____________________________________________________________________
Organisation: __________________________________________________________________
Address: ______________________________________________________________________

Joint International Doctoral (Ph.D) degree in Law, Science and Technology

Position:
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Email: ________________________________________________________________________
Telephone: ____________________________________________________________________

8. I WOULD LIKE TO STUDY WITH THE FOLLOWING FOCUS (PLEASE GIVE THE
FIRST THREE CHOICES):
(Please include in annex 4 and signed explanation of your own motivation stating why you would like
to attend the programme and how this programme will help you in your work and career.)
List of the Research Topics
Bioethics
1. Human Rights and Ethical Principles in new and emerging technologies.
2. Doctor-patient relationships: confidentiality, informed consent, research and
experimentation
3. Public Health Ethics and policymaking
4. Global Health Justice
5. Human Assisted Reproductive Technologies
6. End-of-life Decision Making: legal and ethical issues
7. Ethics and law in Genetics: genetic testing, screening, gene therapy and personalized
medicine
8. Biotechnology and patent law: stem cells and gene patents
9. Biobanks, DNA and research
10. E-health and Privacy by Design
11. Private-public interactions in health care provision
12. Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in genetic counselling
Legal Informatics and AI&LAW
13. Semantic Web and Legal ontologies modelling
14. Information Retrieval and Database techniques in the Legal Domain
15. Legal document modelling and representation including Open Data, XML, and
standardization
16. Computer Forensics
17. Information Systems for eJustice, eGovernment, and eLegislation
18. Computational models of legal and ethical reasoning including educational applications
19. Intelligent Information extraction and NLP of legal resources
20. e-Discovery and data mining in Legal domain
21. Formal Models of Norms and Legal Reasoning
22. Logic-based models of norms and legal knowledge (e.g. for case law)
23. Legal reasoning, including argumentation and reasoning about evidence
24. Argumentation and Argumentation systems
25. Game theory as applied to the law
26. Normative Multi-Agent Systems and e-Institutions
27. Regulatory Compliance
28. Robot and Intelligent System ethics
ICT&LAW
29. Privacy and Security with New Technology (including Biobanks, Genetic data, eHealth,
identity management)
30. Cybercrime and Computer Forensics

Joint International Doctoral (Ph.D) degree in Law, Science and Technology

31. Cybersecurity and cyberwarfare

32. e-Business and Consumer Law
33. e-Governance and e-Democracy social modelling
34. IPR and New Technology (Digital Right Management, nanotechnologies, open data and
open source licences, creative commons, multimedia)
35. Alternative Dispute Resolution and On-line Dispute Resolution
36. Cloud computing modelling and regulation
37. A Comparative Perspective on ICT Law
38. Constitutional crowd sourcing
39. Management of Geopolitical Social Crises
40. Regulation of Robotics and Related Ethical Issues
41. Contracts and ICT
42. Protection of children online
43. Technology regulation: fundamental issues
Choice n1:
Choice n2: ...
Choice n3:

9. DRAFT RESEARCH PROJECT

Please prepare a draft thesis proposal based on a field study or on a critical review of articles referring
to one of the topic listed in annex 10 This draft must include a working title, a brief description of why
the study is relevant, formulation of the problem to be studied, the objective of the study, methods and
materials, and a time table in agreement with the Ph.D program. The draft thesis proposal should not
exceed 2 pages in length. (Annex 3)

10. FUNDING
Students must be able to finance their study and living expenses.
Funding available If yes, which kind:

Private funds Employer

Actual scholarship Expected scholarship

I would like to apply for an Erasmus Mundus action 1 scholarship (please complete the next page
of this application). Please note: EM Scholarships are awarded solely on the basis of academic and
professional merit, not on a needs basis.
I would like to apply also without an Erasmus Mundus action 1 scholarship. This means to
pay a contribution to the participation costs of 600Euro per semester.

Joint International Doctoral (Ph.D) degree in Law, Science and Technology

Personal data are collected and used in accordance with Directive 95/46/EC of
the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on "the protection of individuals
with regard to
The information provided in your application may be used for purposes of evaluating the Erasmus
Mundus programme. The doctoral candidate data will be made available to National Structures and
EU Delegations acting as stakeholders of the Programme.
I HEREBY DECLARE THAT THE ABOVE INFORMATION IS, TO THE BEST OF MY
KNOWLEDGE, CORRECT. I AM AWARE THAT PENALTIES MAY BE APPLIED IN
THE CASE OF A FALSE DECLARATION.
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Date

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Signature

Joint International Doctoral (Ph.D) degree in Law, Science and Technology

ERASMUS MUNDUS ACTION 1 SCHOLARSHIP

CATEGORY A
If you would like to be considered for an EM scholarship, we kindly request you to fill in this
section of the application form. Please send this form with the complete application package
(pages 1-7, plus all documents listed on the page Application Checklist).

Surname: _____________________
First name: _____________________
Email: _____________________

To be considered for an Erasmus Mundus scholarship the candidate:

Must be a graduate who has successfully obtained a second cycle degree awarded by a recognised
higher education institution anywhere in the world.
Can not be a resident of one of the 27 European Union (EU) Member States and the EEA-EFTA
states (Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway)
Can not have carried out his or her main activity (studies, work, etc.) for more than a total of 12
months over the last five years in an EU Member State and EEA-EFTA state.
Can not have applied for more than three Erasmus Mundus Scholarship programmes

I hereby declare that I am not a resident of one of 27 EU Member State, EEA-EFTA country
(Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway ), nor have I carried out my main activities (studies,
work, etc.) for more than a total of 12 months over the past five years in an EU Member State
and EEA-EFTA country, nor have I applied for more than 3 different Erasmus Mundus
scholarship programmes.

___________________
Date

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Signature

Joint International Doctoral (Ph.D) degree in Law, Science and Technology

APPLICATION CHECKLIST
Use the cover page that is included in the application (for the template see the last page of this
form)
The original application has been signed by the applicant on the application form (page 2-7)
If you would like to be considered for an EM scholarship, you have to fill the dedicated section of
the application form (page 8).
- 9 annexes need to be included in the application:
1. Annex 1: Curriculum vitae, Standard European Format only, other formats will not be
accepted.
(format available at: http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/europass/home/hornav/Introduction.csp)
2. Annex 2: All academic degrees or professional diplomas and academic transcripts. All
documents have to be certified or notarized.
3. Annex 3: Draft research project (3000 words) use the template provided.
4. Annex 4: A signed explanation of your own motivation stating why you would like to
attend the programme and how this programme will help you in your work and career (1 page, A4
format). This letter should only contain your personal motivation for attending this programme, your
professional goals, your personal career objectives and how this programme will help you achieve them.
5. Annex 5: One or two strongly convincing recommendation letters. Letters can be sent
independently by an academic and professional body or sealed and signed by the referee and posted
together with other application documents in the same envelope.
6. Annex 6: IELTS min: 6.5; TOEFL min: 220 CBT, 550 PBT, 80 iBT; TOEIC min: 780,
Cambridge min. C.A.E, Trinity min. GESE and ISE Intermediate, GRE min. Verbal Reasoning.
480, Quantitative Reasoning 600, Analytical Writing 4.0 or, for those who studied in countries
where the English is the official language, an official letter stating that your university studies were
undertaken in English.
7. Annex 7 any other qualifications relative to the areas of the research dealt with in the
course (each of them no more than 5 pages long)
8. Annex 8: 1 passport-sized photograph
9. Annex 9: A copy of your current passport.

Joint International Doctoral (Ph.D) degree in Law, Science and Technology

Application documents should be numbered, but NOT stapled.

If any of the above required annexes is missing, your application will be considered as
incomplete and will be disregarded. Only applicants with complete application documents will
be notified about the reception of the application and will be contacted for further matters.
Applicants will be notified on the selection outcome in 2012 according to the type of
application.
The information provided in your application may be used for the purposes of evaluating the
Erasmus Mundus programme in later stage. The relevant data protection regulations will be
respected.

The signed original application package CAN be:

1. submitted using the WEB service
OR
2 sent to the following address by post, in the same envelope :
To: LAST-JD
CIRSFID, University of Bologna
Via Galliera 3,
Bologna, 40121
Italy

Joint International Doctoral (Ph.D) degree in Law, Science and Technology

TEMPLATE OF THE COVER PAGE OF THE APPLICATION

Surname: ...
Full name: .
Nationality: .
E-mail: .
The following documents are posted within this envelope:
Please indicate the page numbers:

DOCUMENT NAME
Cover pages
Application form
1. CV (standard form)
2. Degree certificate/diploma 1 and
Academic Transcript
3. Draft research project
4. Motivation letter
5. Recommendation letters
6. English test result
7. Other qualifications
8. Photo
9. Copy of passport

Best regards,
Date: dd/mm/yyyy
Signature

PAGE NUMBERS
1-7
xx-xx
xx-xx
xx-xx
xx
Number of letters provided
xx
xx-xx
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TEMPLATE FOR THE DRAFT PROJECT (3000 WORDS)

Title
Abstract
Aim and Objectives
State of the art and open challenges
Methodology of research
References