RADMEP+ trains engineers and physicists to understand how radiation damages microelectronic and photonic devices, and how to build hardware that keeps working anyway. Six universities run it together: Jyväskylä in Finland, KU Leuven, Ghent University and Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium, and Université Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne and the University of Montpellier in France.
Students change campus every semester and graduate with a joint master degree worth 120 ECTS over four semesters. The last semester is a master thesis carried out inside a company or a research centre, which may be anywhere in the world.
The field feeds space, nuclear, particle-physics and medical-imaging work, where components have to survive radiation. Université Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne coordinates the consortium and handles admissions.
Benefits & funding
- EMJM scholarship: €1,400 per month for two years, €33,600 in total, plus a 100% waiver of participation costs. 70 are available across the four RADMEP+ intakes; for the 50 regular scholarships, no more than five may go to one nationality across all five editions combined under the EU geographic-balance rule.
- Fee waiver for self-funded students: participation costs fall to €1,000 per year for programme-country applicants and €2,000 per year for partner-country applicants, for up to 50 students of any nationality.
- MANUTECH SLEIGHT Graduate School scholarship: €5,500 in the second year for students who take semester 3 at Université Jean Monnet.
- Dedicated funding exists for students with long-term impairments.
- Without a waiver, participation costs are €4,500 per year (€9,000 total) for programme countries and €9,000 per year (€18,000 total) for partner countries. They cover local tuition at each host university, full insurance for the whole period, language courses, academic mentoring and support with housing, visas and banking.
- Accommodation and travel stay with the student; self-funded students may pay in three instalments.
- Scholarships cannot be combined, need no separate application, and follow the selection ranking.
Eligibility
- A bachelor of science, or any nationally recognised first-cycle degree equal to 180 ECTS; microelectronics, photonics or physics is preferred.
- A solid academic grounding in physics, photonics, semiconductor physics and microelectronics.
- English at CEFR level B2, evidenced in the application and checked again at interview.
- Open to every nationality; the consortium states that it does not discriminate on the basis of nationality.
- Applicants must show they can cover their studies, either privately or through a scholarship.
- For the EMJM scholarship, applicants must confirm they have never held an Erasmus Mundus grant.
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Application process
- 1Check the eligibility page, then gather transcripts, your bachelor diploma, an English certificate, a CV (Europass preferred), recommendation letters, proof of nationality, a documented five-year residence history and a scan of your birth certificate.
- 2Write a motivation letter of at most 1,000 words that argues your preferred semester 3 mobility and states that you have never received an Erasmus Mundus grant.
- 3Create a profile on the Saint-Étienne international science masters portal and upload every document as a PDF in English.
- 4Submit before the deadline and keep the acknowledgement email; one application covers admission and every scholarship at once.
- 5If shortlisted, sit a remote interview and send diplomas and transcripts by the date the consortium sets.
- 6Confirm your place by the enrolment commitment date; an unsuccessful applicant may appeal in writing within 30 days of the published outcome.
Program timeline
Applications open for the 2026-2028 intake
Oct 15, 2025
Application and EMJM scholarship deadline, 12:00 UTC
Feb 9, 2026
Shortlisting and remote interviews
Feb 15, 2026 to Apr 5, 2026
Selection results published, main list and reserve list
Mar 22, 2026
Diplomas and transcripts due from interviewed candidates
Mar 30, 2026
Deadline to appeal a consortium scholarship decision
Apr 12, 2026
Enrolment commitment due
May 15, 2026
Induction week and semester 1 begin in Jyväskylä
August 2026
Master thesis completed, programme ends
Summer 2028