The Erasumus Mundus Design Measure MONROE - Master in phOtonic NetwoRking and clOud Engineering will focus on the integration of three universities and associated partners, in view of the realization of a new Erasmus Mundus Joint Master. Specifically, our EMDM MONROE will cover the definition of the full set of learning outcomes and didactic plan organized over mobility paths, the management and administrative structure of the Master’s, as well as the plans for sustainability, dissemination, inclusion and Master’s accreditation.

The new Master in phOtonic NetwoRking and clOud Engineering (MONROE) will train talented young telecommunication and electrical engineers in the advanced use of: photonics, telecommunications and cloud computing for future networking needs. Through a holistic taught programme that ranges from photonic devices and systems to network architectures, software components and computer systems, the students will acquire skillsets that will be crucial to support the design and development of future mobile and digital networks, such as:

• 6G systems
• Internet of Things architectures
• low-energy integrated components
• e-services
• citizen-driven applications.

The new MONROE Master's will be a follow-up of the previous Erasmus Mundus PIXNET program (http://pixnet.santannapisa.it), which has just ended in 2022, after three successful editions. Building on this experience, both the consortium composition and the educational objectives have been transformed to address the multiple and inter-disciplinary challenges created by the very rapid evolution of optical networks and cloud computing.

Course level: postgraduate

Course type: full-time Master's

Duration: 2 years

3 Top-ranked University Partners:

• Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies - Pisa (Italy)
• University of Glasgow - Scotland (UK)
• Budapest University of Technology and Economics - Budapest (HU)

Application: exclusively online

Scholarships: full-study sholarships are available covering all necessary costs during the study course in each module. Also tuition waiver covering tuition fees and insurance coverage are available. Further information will follow!!

Structure and Mobility: 6 international mobility paths

The Masters Programme consists of 120 ECTS (2 academic years divided into four modules).Each module allows 30 ECTS to be gained.

The first 3 modules are based on traditional courses, laboratory exercises and laboratory sessions, while the last is based on independent work related to the Masters Thesis

The Masters includes a international student mobility component (6 mobility paths) in at least 2 of the participating institutions. The complete mobility options will be decided during the selection procedure.

The Master’s aims at training talented students to become capable of designing, developing and assessing innovative ideas through the drivers of future fixed and mobile networks and services.

Specifically, MONROE will train young telecommunication and electrical engineers in the advanced use of photonics and cloud computing for future networking (e.g., Data Center, 6G systems, etc.), as these are regarded as central elements in terms of sustainability and continuity from the perspective of Moore’s law regarding ICT and the steady improvement of telecommunication network Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), while also reducing the carbon footprint and power consumption.

Six different curricula are envisioned depending on the mobility options selected. Each curriculum consists of the attendance of four semester modules. The first year of the Masters (i.e., the first and second semester of the Master’s course) will be spent in the same institution (either SSSA, BME or UGLA). The second year will be spent in another institution of the Partnership.

At the end of the Master’s Course, the partner institutions will award to the participating students double degrees, i.e. two national diplomas issued by two institutions and recognised officially in the countries where the degree-awarding institutions are located.

The six curricula are defined as follows:

The degrees released by the Partnership in the mobility paths are as follows:

Mobility #1 and #2: The two awarded degrees are: Master in phOtonic NetwoRking and clOud Engineering (MONROE) by SSSA and Masters in Computer Systems Engineering by UGLA

Mobility #3 and #4: The two awarded degrees are: Master in phOtonic NetwoRking and clOud Engineering (MONROE) by SSSA and the Master of Science on Computer Engineering by BME.

Mobility #5 and #6: The two awarded degrees are: Masters in Computer Systems Engineering by UGLA and the Master of Science on Computer Engineering by BME.

Awarded degrees will be accompanied by a single Diploma Supplement, which describes the educational mobility programme followed by the student within the Masters Course.