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About the scholarship
DENSYS — Decentralized Smart Energy Systems — is a two-year (120 ECTS) Erasmus Mundus Joint Master coordinated by the Université de Lorraine (Nancy, France), with KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), Politecnico di Torino (Italy) and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain). It trains engineers for decentralised energy systems — the technologies behind the energy transition — and awards a double master’s degree: from UL and the university where the third semester is completed.
The funding package is the standard Erasmus Mundus top tier: €1,400 a month for the full two years, with tuition and programme costs covered by the EU. Applications go through the eMundus platform, and the 2027 intake is open now.
What the funding covers
- €1,400 per month for the full 2-year programme for EMJM scholarship holders.
- Participation costs fully covered by the EU: tuition fees, health and accident insurance, lab courses, excursions, visits, two summer schools (including the ESADE Barcelona business/entrepreneurship school) and the immersive week at the University of Liège on AI for energy networks.
- Challenge-based multidisciplinary projects and, in semester 4, an internship or master’s thesis — typically with industry or research partners such as Vattenfall, Scania, the IEA, ArcelorMittal, Snam or Sener.
- Also possible: admission with a partial scholarship (reduced participation costs, for a few students per cohort) or as a self-funded student. There is a published cost-of-living breakdown per country (updated March 2026) on the official fees page to help self-funded applicants budget.
- No published travel or installation allowance figure — participation costs explicitly exclude travel, housing and living expenses, which come from the monthly allowance. Any site quoting a separate travel/installation sum for this call is inventing it.
Eligibility
- Degree: a bachelor’s degree (or final-year status — you must hold the degree by enrolment in early September) in science, engineering, or a technical bachelor’s in mechanical/aeronautical, chemical, electrical, or energy engineering. Other 180-credit technical or natural-science degrees are accepted only with the required courses: applied thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid dynamics, mathematics, numerical methods.
- Grades: effectively CGPA 3.0/4.0 — below that the requirements “may be assessed as not fulfilled.”
- English (official page): TOEFL iBT 92/120 with writing ≥ 22 (or 4.5/6 on the new January-2026 scale with writing ≥ 4.5); IELTS Academic 6.5 overall with writing ≥ 5.5; CAE/CPE grade C (B2 First/FCE not accepted). A waiver applies only to students instructed in English for at least 60 ECTS during their bachelor’s from the EU/EEA, Switzerland, listed English-speaking countries or listed African countries. Medium-of-instruction letters and Duolingo are explicitly not accepted.
- Nationality: open to all nationalities, no age limit. Prior EMJM scholarship recipients cannot receive a second EMJM award (they may apply as self-funded).
- Track competition warning: the consortium notes about three-quarters of applicants pick the KTH track — competition for Stockholm is the toughest.
Documents you will need
All documents in English, submitted via eMundus (per the official application page):
- Europass-format CV (PDF).
- Motivation letter (maximum 1 page, 11pt).
- 3–5 minute self-introduction video, shared via a link that stays accessible without login through the end of March.
- Notarised copy of your degree and transcripts — or enrolment proof plus transcripts if not yet graduated; translated and notarised if not in English.
- Two reference letters, uploaded directly by the referees via an email link — the consortium flags this as the main last-minute blocker, because you cannot submit until both letters are in.
- Proof of employment if relevant; copy of ID card or passport; English test certificate; an ID/passport-style photo.
How to apply
- Lock in your two referees first. They receive the upload link by email and must submit before you can finalize — chase this a month early, not a week.
- Prepare the document pack — Europass CV, one-page motivation letter, notarised degree/transcripts, the 3–5 minute self-introduction video, English certificate, ID and photo.
- Create an account and an application for DENSYS on eMundus. The application can be completed progressively, and everything is editable after submission except referee contact details.
- Pick your semester-3 track — KTH Stockholm (decentralised energy systems in a global energy system), Politecnico di Torino (Power-to-X / energy storage pathways), or UPC Barcelona (thermal energy management). Remember the KTH track draws about three-quarters of applicants.
- Submit by 27 January 2027. Evaluation: two consortium reviewers score your file out of 100 (degree/field/marks 45; references and video 20; motivation, experience and potential 25; English 10), and the Admission Board then assigns the EMJM scholarship, a partial reduction, self-funded status — or rejection. Results are emailed in early March.
Frequently asked questions
€1,400 per month for the full two years, plus all participation costs covered by the EU: tuition, health and accident insurance, lab courses, excursions, two summer schools and the Liège immersive week. Travel, housing and living expenses are not covered separately — budget those from the monthly allowance.
Year 1 is at the Université de Lorraine in Nancy, France. For semester 3 you choose a specialisation track: KTH in Stockholm, Politecnico di Torino, or UPC in Barcelona. Semester 4 is an internship or master’s thesis. You graduate with a double master’s degree.
In almost all cases, yes: TOEFL iBT 92 (writing ≥ 22) or IELTS 6.5 overall (writing ≥ 5.5) are the published thresholds. Medium-of-instruction letters and Duolingo are explicitly not accepted; waivers apply only in narrow published cases.
Only if your 180-credit technical or natural-science degree included the required courses: applied thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid dynamics, mathematics and numerical methods. Otherwise the degree requirement will not be fulfilled.
Yes — the consortium itself notes that about three-quarters of applicants choose KTH Stockholm, so that track’s selection is the toughest.
Results are emailed to applicants in early March, following the published evaluation pattern; the exact 2027 notification date is not published.
The official site names the Eiffel scholarship as a parallel French-government route for candidates interested in studying in France.
Verified 18 Oct 2026 against the official consortium site densys.univ-lorraine.fr — the application page (eligibility, English scores, all nine documents, eMundus process, referee-upload rule), the fees-and-scholarships page (€1,400/month × 24 months, participation-cost coverage, cost-of-living breakdown, partial/self-funded options, Eiffel mention) — and KTH’s official programme page (application window 12 Oct 2026 – 27 Jan 2027, September 2027 start, double degree). Any travel or installation allowance figure is deliberately not published (not on the official site); the exact 2027 notification date and the number of 2027 EMJM awards are not published and are not stated as facts. The direct eMundus application URL is not printed — the article directs readers to the consortium’s application page.
