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The Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree on Sustainable Transpostation and Electrical Power Systems (EMJMD STEPS) is promoted by a well-integrated partnership. At its core, there are 4 leading universities in the electrical engineering field (The University of Oviedo, Spain, the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, the University of Rome, Italy and the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, Portugal), which will be the joint degree awarding institutions. The long-lasting cooperation between the partners Universities (and between the full partners and the associate institutions), started in 2012 with the previous edition of this Erasmus
Mundus Master, funded by the EU, and constitutes one of the main strengths of the new (EMJMD STEPS) edition. The departments involved at the partner Universities have been extensively cooperating in education and research: Erasmus exchanges, visiting scholars, joint supervision of Master and PhD Thesis, research, industrial cooperation projects, and others. The cooperation in the first Erasmus Mundus Master has allowed identifying strengths and weak spots that gave room to the small changes currently introduced (mainly the creation of a new specialization branch). The proposed (EMJMD STEPS) continues to be a 120 ETCS, 4 semester’s Master, with an introductory short course at the beginning of the first year. The (EMJMD STEPS) offers now three recommended study tracks: Sustainable Transportation,
Electrical Power Systems “Design, Analysis and Operation for the More Efficient and Resilient Grid” and Electrical Power Systems “Technologies for the More Electronic Grid”. The implementation of the previous edition (over the last five academic years), built on the strengths and specialization of the four partner Universities, supplemented with the technological specialization of the associated companies and Universities, has helped to fully integrate the academic programme. Course professors have jointly developed all teaching materials and therefore the programme is ready to be delivered right away. The four partner Universities signed a Consortium Agreement to regulate the previous STEPS edition, which will be modified to take account the current changes in the academic programme and other issues
regarding national legislations. Several world-leading companies have expressed their continuing full support to the Master by participating in, offering
Internships and Thesis Supervision, in cooperation with partner Universities. We are proud to have some of our graduates pursuing their careers in some of these companies or pursuing their Academic ambitions (towards Ph.D.) in associated and partner institutions.