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Double Master Degree Programme: Enhancing Multicultural Engineering and Mobility between France and Finland

Sébastien Lafond, Cecilia Brunel, Double Master Degree Programme: Enhancing Multicultural Engineering and Mobility between France and Finland. In: Jerker Bjärkqvist, Mikko-Jussi Laakso, Janne Roslöf, Raija Tuohi, Seppo Virtanen (Eds.), International Conference on Engineering Education 2012 - Proceedings, Research reports, 570–576, Turun Ammattikorkeakoulu, 2012.

Abstract:

Mobility and multiculturalism among engineering students in Europe are mainly accomplished through the ERASMUS student mobility programme. This programme contributes to the development of an integrated European labour market and increases the chance for participating students to work abroad later on [1]. However through the ERASMUS programme the length of the study period abroad cannot be more than twelve months and students only “collect” credits in the host institution to be recognized and transferred in their home institution.
The European labour market is driven by a knowledge-based economy and motivated students seeking to increase their assets on such labour market aspire for more than exchange periods abroad. Setting up double master degree programme between trusted institutions is the foremost move institutions can have towards these students. A double Master Degree Programme is a framework promoting multiculturalism where students get the opportunity to gain additional skills and competencies.
This paper presents a double master degree programme in Embedded Systems between a Finnish university and a French school of engineering. It shows how the Finnish three plus two years education system can be coupled to the French engineering system of two plus three years of studies.

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@INPROCEEDINGS{inpLaBr12a,
  title = {Double Master Degree Programme: Enhancing Multicultural Engineering and Mobility between France and Finland},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Engineering Education 2012 - Proceedings},
  author = {Lafond, Sébastien and Brunel, Cecilia},
  series = {Research reports},
  editor = {Bjärkqvist, Jerker and Laakso, Mikko-Jussi and Roslöf, Janne and Tuohi, Raija and Virtanen, Seppo},
  publisher = {Turun Ammattikorkeakoulu},
  pages = {570–576},
  year = {2012},
  keywords = {Education, Double Master Degree, Engineering, Finland, France},
}

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