scholarship guide webinar

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SCHOLARSHIP GUIDEWaqar BaigErasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate Fellow

UNIGE, Italy. TU Eindhoven, Netherlands

(2012-2015)

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Summary

Scholarships in South Korea Making a CV

Cover Letter/ Email

Conditions which increase your Chances even if you have low CGPA Erasmus Mundus Scholarships

Scholarships in Italy

Final Year Projects

Questions

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Scholarships in South Korea

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Why South Korea ?

Offers large number of scholarships

Almost every field

Direct work experience with companies Samsung

Electronics

Construction LG

POSCO

Hynix Semiconductors

Daelim

Hyundai Many small and large industries

Research Masters / Taught Masters Research papers / research profile

Job Opportunities

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Types of Scholarships Two Types

University Scholarships

University money

Professor Scholarships Company / professor projects money

Main Point: In both Cases to get scholarship,you have to convince the professor that you

are the most suitable candidate for his lab

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How to find professor/ professors

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First Step

First finalize yourself your interests Interesting subject/s in your degree in which you are strong

Your final yearproject

Yoursemesterprojects

Specific skills

Programmer (certificates, projects)

Passion to make ideas and conclusions after reading of many

research papers of professors whom you applying

English Test scores (TOEFL/IELTS) : MOST IMPORTANT

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Second Step

Open a list of universities using wikipedia Find your relevant major department

Find the list of professors there

Now go thorough each professor websites and find the

professors whose lab is working more relevant to yourinterests How to find relevancy ?

By looking at the lab projects or research

By finding with professor name on google his recent research papers

Choose one professor to contact at one time from your listof professors in the same deparment of same university Because if you email many professors of same department at same

time, then they can get negative impact about your researchintentions.

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Third Step

Choosing one professor

Read his recent research papers and get to know about

his interests more well

Passion to make ideas and conclusions after reading of many

research papers of professors whom you are applying

Email him with

Research CV

Cover letter

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Making a CV

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Research CV

Final year project

Semester projects

Internship experiences

Job experience Skills

Education

Where is the difference ?

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Difference 1

Description of projects (final/semester) Explaining more like a paragraph by explaining the whole method how

you did it,and what are the results you obtained, any improvement ornovelty, rather than just mentioning the techniques you used.

For example Affect of TIG Welding on Corrosion & Mechanical Properties of Surgical

steel (Final Year Project)

Semester Projects:

Wireless Communication using 8051 microcontroller

Key pad interfacing using 8051 microcontroller

LCD and hyper terminal interfacing using 8051 microcontroller 32-bit processor using VHDL

4-bit processor using verilog

Inverted pendulum

Power supply

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Difference 2

Internships experience or Job experience

Explain the experience fully in a paragraph

Techniques, tools and algorithms you worked on.

Results obtained

Did implementation etc.

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Difference 3 , Important one

When you read a specific professor profile i.e. His

research areas and research papers

Relate your written projects/experiences in some way if

you can, with his area.

Bring those projects/ experiences above than other in CV

If your relevance with professor research area is strong,

then you can even give reference with professors work in

that specifc paragraph in CV. This will have much impact

DO Not mention the things which you do not know, as

professors are more experienced than you

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Cover Letter/ Email

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Important Points

Just introduce yourself a little Not big explanations /motivations

Do mention that you have read his research papers bymentioning some specific reserch paper which you understandfully

You can give suggestion if you have some good suggestion about itsimprovement in few lines OR

You can relate from your previous work his resecrh paper that youhave some ideas relating to it in few lines

Write always technically

Avoid Casual language

Subject of Email Do not ask about weather/health

Know the Culture Flatter/beg

Be precise

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Final Step

Now wait for professor reply after sending CV , cover

letter

If yes, then you can pursue with asking about fundings,

etc

If not, then try another professor

Keep on trying. Do not get disappointed

You can call them also

Speak the English slowly

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Famous Universities

KAIST( Korea Advanced Institute of Sciences andTechnology)

SNU(Seoul National University)

Hanyang University

Korea University

Kyunghee University

GIST

UST

More explained guide on Scholarship Guide for SouthKorea https://www.facebook.com/groups/scholarships.pk/

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Conditions which increase your Chances

even if you have low CGPA Published research paper

Good CGPA

If you have not good CGPA, and have publication

If not good CGPA but you have good control oversubjects/skills/experience, which is relevant to professor

interests whom you are applying

Trying again and again

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Erasmus Mundus Scholarships

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Erasmus Mundus Scholarships

Prestigious Scholarships

Fullbright of Europe

Combined or Joint or Double degrees by two or three

universities in Europe Good financial support

Exposure to different research / education environments

EMMC ( Erasmus Mundus Masters Course)

EMJD (Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate)

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Types

Action 1

Open competetion

Has possibilities of two or three universities in two or three

European countries

Action 2 Offered by the specific universities for specific lots

Experts

cLINK

Only one university in EuropeAction 3

For projects

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Action 1 Tips

Apply directly with in deadlines on respective websites IELTS and TOEFL are required, English Proficiency certificates

also work

Good CGPA

Good recommendation letters, well written and in line with the

field applying Research proposal, well written

Explained projects

Motivation Letter ( Most Important ) Geniune

Cultural Experiences Research papers published increase your chances of

scholarship

You do not need to contact any university or professor

More Details on Erasmus Mundus Master and PhD Programs https://www.facebook.com/groups/scholarships.pk/

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Scholarships in Italy

Many scholarships in Italian universities

Apply directly in universities

PhD Scholarships

Work Experience Postings on Scholarship Network Group

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Final Year Projects

Try to do some final year project

Research publications

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Questions

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