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    Guidelines for Applicants

    EUROPEAN MASTER DEGREE IN PLANT HEALTH IN SUSTAINABLE CROPPING SYSTEMS


    PLANTHEALTH

    Step 1: Access to the PlantHealth online application system:


    Both self-funded candidates and scholarship applicants submit their application forms through the same on-line
    system, available on the website: www.planthealth.upv.es

    To create a new user, access the website: https://www.planthealth.upv.es/user/create_applicant and create a new
    user. You will have to fill in the requested data and then click on “create”:
    - Decide a username and a password
    - Insert your personal email address
    - Insert the verification code that appears on the screen

    Once you have created your user you will be automatically redirected to the online application.

    NOTE: It’s very important that you keep the username and password, as those will be your access credentials for the
    whole process.

    Guidelines PlantHealth online application tool Page 1 of 9


    STEP 2: Online application – Eligibility questions

    The first screen of the online application contains the application calendar. Press “Start the application”.

    IMPORTANT: The online application has been designed to guide you along the process. Each section contains
    explanations about how to fill in the corresponding information. Please read the explanations carefully before
    answering the questions. At each section of the online application, you can save the changes so that they are available
    the next time you access the system.

    ELEGIBILITY QUESTIONS

    There are 3 eligibility questions before reaching the application form:

     Eligibility question 1: Do you hold (or will hold on September 202X) an undergraduate/bachelor degree or
    equivalent studies that gives you access to Master’s studies in your country?
    Admission requirements: Awarded Bachelor of Science degree (180 ECTS) in Agronomy / Agricultural Sciences
    or related fields. 180 ECTS usually equal to a 3-year full-time undergraduate/bachelor degree, with at least 4
    ECTS in Plant Health or Crop Protection, or equivalent

    Note: If you are in the last year of your Bachelor degree, you will have to answer “Yes” to this first eligibility
    question.

     Eligibility question 2: Have you already benefitted from an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree
    scholarship or an Erasmus Mundus Master Course/Joint Doctorate scholarship?

    Select the corresponding option and then click on “Save” to be directed to the next eligibility question.

    Guidelines PlantHealth online application tool Page 2 of 9


     Eligibility question 3: Which is your nationality?

    Read carefully the question and select the corresponding option.

    STEP 3: Application Form

    Once completed the eligibility questions you will be addressed to the next section of the application form, that
    contains personal, academic and professional information.
    You will need to complete all sections.

    Guidelines PlantHealth online application tool Page 3 of 9


    1. Personal details
    Fill the mandatory fields and press "Save".

    Indicate here the city/town


    where you were born

    Guidelines PlantHealth online application tool Page 4 of 9


    2. Home Institution

    3. Academic Background
    You should complete one section per each Higher Education studies completed.
    On the “Documents upload” section of the application you will have to upload your BSc certificate/Provisional
    certificate/Certificate issued by your university, stating that you are in your last year of BSc studies and your
    Transcript of Records. If you have also completed Master and/or Doctorate studies, you may upload the
    corresponding certificate and transcript of records together with the ones of the BSc.

    Part (b): fill it if you hold more than one


    Higher Education academic certificate
    (i.e. Master studies, doctorate, etc.)

    Guidelines PlantHealth online application tool Page 5 of 9


    4. Professional experience
    Please fill the mandatory fields and press "Save".

    5. Language skills
    Please fill the mandatory fields and press "Save".

    Guidelines PlantHealth online application tool Page 6 of 9


    6. Publications
    Please fill the fields, if applicable to you, and press "Save".

    7. Referees – contact details


    Please fill the mandatory fields for 2 Referees and press "Save".

    These referees must be the same ones


    signing the 2 “reference letters”
    required by the application.

    Guidelines PlantHealth online application tool Page 7 of 9


    8. Proposed mobility scheme

    Please read carefully the explanations and select from the drop-down menu. Then press “Save”.

    9. Motivation and added value


    Candidates are expected to be succint in their answers. Please take into consideration the limited number of
    characters in each box. Once filled in the mandatory fields, press "Save".

    10. Documents upload

    You are expected to upload the mandatory files in the corresponding boxes.

    In the box “Other documents” you can upload any other relevant document.

    Guidelines PlantHealth online application tool Page 8 of 9


    IMPORTANT:
    ! Each box accepts only one document. If you would like to upload more than one document in the same box,
    first you have to merge those documents into a single one. To merge several PDF documents into one you may
    use one online tool, such as:
    iLovePDF: https://www.ilovepdf.com/
    PDF2Go: https://www.pdf2go.com/

    ! Each uploaded document must have a maximum size of 1 MB. To reduce the size of a PDF document, there
    are several tools available. One is to use Adobe Acrobat and select Print / Print in Adobe PDF / Properties /
    Small file. Another is to use specialist software such as https://smallpdf.com/

    The Application Form and attached documents should be written in English language, unless otherwise stated in
    the corresponding sections, so that all the host institutions may be able to analyse the submitted proposal.

    The identity documents


    (identity and passport)
    do not need to be
    translated.

    Please upload a copy of


    your academic
    documents with an
    English translation,
    except if your original
    documents are in
    English, Spanish,
    German or French

    Guidelines PlantHealth online application tool Page 9 of 9


    STEP 4: Submit application

    After completing all sections of the application, please read carefully and check all the mandatory boxes. Then, you
    will be able to submit it by pressing the “Submit application” button

    IMPORTANT:
    ! Please be aware that once submitted it is not possible to make any additional changes. If you would like to
    make any changes, you will need to create a new user and start a new application.

    ! If an applicant submits more than one application, the system will automatically consider the most recent one.

    Acknowledgment of receipt
    After successful submission of the application, you should receive an email acknowledging receipt of your application.

    Selection Results
    The list of candidates accepted to participate in the master will be published on the PlantHealth website (“News
    section”) http://planthealth.upv.es/
    Afterwards, the list of candidates selected for an Erasmus Mundus Scholarship for the master will be published on the
    same website.

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