The ICP “Master of Transportation Sciences – Road Safety in Low & Middle Income Countries” offers a 2-year multidisciplinary master programme with a unique focus and approach to Road Safety in Developing Countries. The programme is supported by VLIR UOS and has 12 scholarships available each year.
Students are trained to identify transportation and road safety issues in order to create innovative solutions by using an integrative approach based on three pillars: the individual (dealing with the human behaviour in traffic and how to influence it e.g. intentional and unintentional riskful behaviour such as drunk driving or cognitive impairments), the environment (e.g. creating self-explaining roads and infrastructure that minimizes crash impact) and the society (e.g. societal norms and translation into policy and enforcement measures). Road safety in this programme is approached as a cross-border field, incorporating elements of psychology, economy, urban planning, environmental studies, engineering and more.
Programme overview
| NUMBER OF SCHOLARSHIPS | 12 per year |
| STUDY PROGRAMME | Study Programme |
| ELIGIBILITY | Eligibility criteria |
| APPLICATION DEADLINE | 1 February 2021 |
| SCHOLARSHIP DETAILS | Monthly allowance: € 1150/month (for cost of meals, transport, personal expenses and accommodation)
Amounts for trainings or Master programmes starting in 2020 are subject to change. More info on the study scholarships can be found here: allowances and guidelines for scholarships |
| APPLICATION PROCEDURE | 1. Check if you’re eligible for this scholarship.
2. Complete the online application form. 3. Send the required legalised hard copies by post/courier before the application deadline to Hasselt University, attn. Ms. Leen Jorissen, Martelarenlaan 42, 3500 Hasselt, Belgium. More info: go to Application |
| TIME OF SCHOLARSHIP DECISION | Only complete and admissible applications that reach us before the application deadline will be taken into consideration. A ranking will be made. The top 12 applicants will receive a scholarship. There will also be a waiting list of eligible candidates who ranked between 13 to max. 24.
Applicants who have been granted a scholarship will be informed by VLIR-UOS via email between the end of May and mid June 2021. Applicants who have not been granted a scholarship will be informed by Hasselt University in the same time frame. Applicants who are not granted a scholarship, but are academically admissible, will be given the opportunity to be admitted to the non-scholarship master in Transportation Sciences. |
