Balanced gender participation

A point that will deserve reflexion is the way in which equal opportunity regarding gender will work. The consortium aims at encouraging female students to apply and be successful. The described procedures do not take explicitly into account gender parity issues, as they privilege, currently, the fairness and objectivity in selecting applicants. Of course, the examination procedure must be equal for all, but, should the number of female applicants turn out to be too low, the consortium may set in place alternative way of recruiting that favour, to a certain degree, female participation.

The consortium might exploit, to this aim, methods that are already in place at some partner university, for instance envisaging additional bourses for good female students.

In order to be open to the most wide set of potential applicants, also facilities for handicapped students may be foreseen. Again in this case, the Master can benefit from those facilities that local universities have already in place. A special service of tutoring may be organized for needing students.