Overview

We should distinguish:

1. Common courses. These are composed of 10 courses: 6 in Semester 1, 2 in Semester 2 and 2 in Semester 3. They are devoted to providing the students with the theoretical and methodological background for the specialties. All common courses will be guaranteed to be multi-localized by the partner universities, through video-conferencing . One teacher or a team can give each course. The courses will be then available to all students independently from the country they live in. In this way, all students will share a common background (same pedagogical content, same teachers and same language with a virtual unity of place). To every course teachers available locally at each university will supply 15 additional hours of tutoring.
2. Specialty courses. Semesters 2 and 3 are dedicated to the acquisition by each student of two specialties provided by the partners under the mobility conditions stated below. Each partner gives a specific training related to its own specialties but following the global objective of the programme. In order to avoid course duplication, these semesters offer a total of six specialties including four courses each. The specialty courses are organized locally and not broadcasted using the video-conference technology:
   • Semester 2 is associated to the following specialties:
     • E-Science, by the University of Paris 6 (UPMC, France);
     • Data Mining & Complex system modelling, application in social science, by the University of Lyon 2 (ULY2 France);
     • Knowledge and Decision, by Polytech’Nantes (EPUN, France);
   • Semester 3 is associated to the following specialities:
     • Statistical Modelling and data mining, by the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC, Spain)
     • Relational data mining, by the University of Piemonte Oriental (UPO, Italy)
     • Semantic Web, by the University of Bucharest (UPB, Romania)

In short:

• All common courses will be broadcast via videoconference;
• All courses will be taught in English;
• All class materials will be in English;
• All common courses will be recorded and made available to the students for downloading.
• Each course consists of 40 hours plus 15 hours of individual or collective support provided locally. This assistance will be scientific or pedagogical accompaniment for the students;