Our programme runs over two years (120 ECTS)70 ECTS taught and 50 ECTS by research.

The mapping of our respective academic years onto six matching periods A-E is shown in the Annex below. In terms of these the timeline for the programme is as follows:

Period	First Year M1	Second Year M2
A	Taught modules 20-30 ECTS	Taught modules 15-20 ECTS & preparation of M2 project
B
	(limited mobility opportunity)	mobility opportunity
C	Taught modules 15-20 ECTS	Taught modules 10-15 ECTS
D		M2 mobility opportunity
		M2 project (30 ECTS)
	mobility opportunity & M1 School
E	M1 Project (20 ECTS)
F	M1 mobility opportunity & Projects Conference

 

Mobility Opportunities and Requirements.

Students will be required to spend extended time in at least two centres (minimum 30 ECTS each) and to join in events/collaborations across all three. You will be able to change site at Christmas, starts of projects and in August (with the reservation that switching at Christmas in year 1 can be constrained by compatibility with the M1 module requirements).

You do need to be aware that offers of University accommodation can be based on yearly contracts, constraining your choice of mobility dates.

We intend that spreading the moves through the year will reinforce the sense of one joint cohort of students – we do not intend that everyone switches around at every opportunity.

Monitoring

Local Course Directors will assist each student in drafting their Individual Study Plan at the start of the course. Students will then have Individual Reviews with their local Course Director (or deputy) as each main mobility point approaches (whether they plan to move or not). These will discuss progress, including general level of participation in the programme, and the onward development of the students’ Individual Study Plan. Students not noted to be ‘Satisfactory’ will be have to commit to a path of improvement and be put ‘On Report’ with an agreed schedule of more frequent discussion of progress up to the next Individual Review. A student who falls short of minimum expectations ‘on report’ is liable to have their participation terminated (in principle at any time, but generally at next IR).

ANNEX

The three centres have different academic years which we coordinate as follows.

Period	Warwick	Chalmers/Gothenburg	Polytechnique
A	Term 1 Last week in Sept to mid Dec for p/graduates.	Quarter 1 Sep-Oct	First period Sep-Dec
B		Quarter 2 Nov-Dec
C	Term 2: Jan-late Mar	Quarter 3 Jan-mid Mar	Second Period: M1: Jan- Mar	M2: Jan-Feb
D				M2: Mar-July
E	Term 3: late Apr-June	Quarter 4 Apr-May	Third Period: M1: Apr-July
F	Summer: July-Aug	Summer May-July