Participation
Exclusive and interactive
The Erasmus Honours Programme was designed to suit a specific group of students and teachers. If you can show us that you can do more than just successfully completing the regular programme, you are part of this target group. Most of all, you are highly motivated in broadening your perspective, and you want to meet teachers and students of different fields in order to expand the borders of your knowledge and abilities.
The selected teachers have the same attitude. They challenge by looking beyond the borders of their own specialist field; they won their spurs in education and research, and feel it is exciting to be able to teach this motivated group of students.
You have the opportunity to become part of an exclusive class with a maximum of 25 students from different study fields in order to have debates with each other and the teachers. This concerns education at virtually individual level, exclusive and simultaneously interactive.
Conditions and registration
You can be a candidate for a place in the 2012 Erasmus Honours Programme if you:
- have completed the first 2010 – 2011 bachelor year within one year (latest by late September 2011);
- if you achieved an average score of at least 7.5.
Additionally, a strong motivation to broaden your horizon and explore the borders of science with students of other study programmes is important. You are happy to commit to an additional challenge in subject matter in combination with your regular bachelor study.
Registration procedure
- Write a letter explaining your motivation to participate in the English Erasmus Honours Programme 2012 and add a summary curriculum. Download the reference form from www.eur.nl/honours and ask your employer, teacher, colleague or someone else to complete it.
- Provide an overview of the subjects that you have attended and completed to date with the final scores.
- Ensure that all documents (letter, CV, score list and reference form) have been sent in digital form to smit@erasmusacademie.nl latest by Sunday 30 October 2011.
- a committee with the rector magnificus in charge selects a number of students based on this information. At its discretion, students may be invited to an interview.
- You will hear if you are selected latest by Friday 2 December 2011.
- The eventual group consists of a maximum of 25 students.
Application address to be used in your letter
Erasmus University Rotterdam
FAO Professor H.G. Schmidt - rector magnificus
c/o Erasmus Academy, room M5-14
PO Box 1738
3000 DR Rotterdam
Application to be sent by email to: smit@erasmusacademie.nl
Information address
Erasmus Academie M5-14
Mrs Miranda Smit
T: +31(0)10-408 17 96
E: smit@erasmusacademie.nl
Arlette Geerlings, MA
T: +31(0)10-408 86 87
E: geerlings@erasmusacademie.nl
As an institute for life-long learning, Erasmus Academie is associated with Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Successful participants will earn special honours on the bachelor diploma and a Letter of Recommendation by the Rector Magnificus.
