📋 Tender Overview
Although the trend is already clear in current communication networks, future developments such as 6G will necessarily rely its operation on data collection, analysis and actions, in order to adapt to the changing conditions of the environment. Knowledge of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science is becoming a need for network engineering, computer science and telecommunications graduates, and although some programs are starting to introduce these concepts in the curriculum, few programs tackle both areas in an integrated way. Hence, this proposal of a M.Sc. degree in Communications Engineering and Data Science is timely, and capable of attracting students not only from Europe but also from broader international regions, namely from Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
We propose an EMJM programme backed by five well-known technical European Universities that tackles the aforementioned need of an integrated Communications and Data Science (CoDaS) approach. The proposal builds on the experience of three of the partners in the current CoDaS scheme of double-degree agreements, and we plan to expand it with two more partners, the collaboration of industrial partners and research centres, and boost it with the Erasmus Mundus seal, and an increased level of cooperation (summer schools, exchange of teaching staff, workshops to name a couple of examples).
In the four editions of the program, we expect to attract a total of up to 159 students (of which 56 are from European countries) with a technical readiness which will allow them to quickly integrate in a company or pursue a research career. Such workforce will definitely improve the competitiveness of European industry. We also firmly believe that after these four editions the degree will have reached a level of maturity and prestige that will allow it to self-sustain and become the first truly European-wide master’s program in Communications and Data Science.
