Applying for InterMaths Erasmus Mundus Joint Master
The 2026 call for applications is open. The deadline is:February 25,2026, 1 pm CET
Our 2-year Erasmus Mundus Joint Master in Interdisciplinary Mathematics begins in September. If you are interested in joining the forthcoming edition and winning a full scholarship, read the information below and submit your application via our online tool
We won't charge you any fee to take part in the application process.
To apply for a scholarship, you won't need to submit a separate application
By submitting your application before the set deadline for scholarships (see below), your application will automatically be considered for an EMJM scholarship, too.
For practical reasons, by filling our application form you are applying for all three programmes managed by our Network:
Erasmus Mundus Joint Master “InterMaths - Interdisciplinary Mathematics”; European Joint MSc “Mathmods - Mathematical Modelling in Engineering ”; International MSc “RealMaths - Mathematics for Real World Applications”.
To this purpose, in the application form you will be asked to express your level of interest in each of the three programs. After the evaluation, a unique ranking will be generated with the information on the program(s) for which you have obtained the minimum score for admission.
The InterMaths EMJM provides scholarships for academic scholars and guest lecturers who can contribute to the joint project. To apply, send your CV along with a teaching project (1 page maximum) describing your possible contribution to the InterMaths project.
A very important note! With "scholar" we refer to researchers, lecturers, professors... not to graduate students applying for a scholarship. So, please do not use the button below if you are just a student looking for a scholarship, thank you.
Entry requirements
Are you eligible?
The application is open to students of any nationality. However, before deciding on your eligibility, we need to look through all the required documents. Therefore, if you want to be taken into consideration for our next intake, first check if you meet the minimum academic requirements, then fill in our online application form to submit all the required documents. Your application will then be evaluated along with all the others received, and a selection list will be published on this page - see below for details.
Academic Requirements
Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Physics, Engineering or other similar fields with a very strong mathematical background (BS, BSc, SB, etc. or a degree at the same level of an academic Bachelor's Degree, e.g. its equivalent from a college, university, or technical school of high standing, or 180 ECTS credits in the European system)
Language requirements
All applicants are required to prove an adequate level of English (CEFR B2 level, at least).
Applicants who have conducted their university or secondary-school studies in an English-speaking institution for one or more years will only have to verify that English is the medium of instruction in such institutions (to this purpose, you will find a dedicated section in the application form - no certificate submission is required).
Documents required
For all the above documents, in case they are not written in English, please upload an official English translation, or a translation provided and signed by the Institution awarding your previous degree.
Important Dates
What | When |
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Online application form opens | |
Deadline for Scholarships | |
Deadline for Referees | |
Candidates receive notification of results |
EMJM Scholarships
Number of scholarships for the 2026 edition | 20 (3 of which are reserved for targeted regions as explained below) | |
Amount | 1,400 EUR per month | |
EMJM scholarships are offered to the most talented candidates of any nationality who will be full-time enrolled in the InterMaths EMJM programme.
Students who are awarded an EMJM scholarship won't have to pay any participation costs.
Tuition, registration and any other mandatory costs related to their participation in the course are fully waived. However, the student has to cover accommodation, living, travelling, equipment, and any other personal expenses.
Students will also receive full insurance coverage (see here for more information).
Those who have already benefited from an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master (EMJM) scholarship are not eligible to apply for an additional scholarship. However, they can apply for InterMaths as non-scholarship holders.
Those who have already benefited from an EMJMD scholarship, instead, are eligible to apply for an EMJM scholarship.
Special needs
Contribution for special needs, such as long-term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments certified by a competent authority, may be awarded during the duration of the programme. Therefore, candidates are invited to specify any disability in the application form.
Targeted regions
Three of the twenty EMJM scholarships available for the 2026 edition are reserved for students from the targeted regions of the world listed below. The application procedure is the same as for the regular EMJM scholarships.
Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro
a) Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu
b) High-income countries: Australia, New Zealand
Fees & Consortium Scholarships
The participation costs (enrolment fees) amount to 18,000 EUR for the whole two-year period.
Participation costs include tuition, registration and any other mandatory costs related to participation in the course. However, the student has to cover accommodation, living, travelling, equipment, and any other personal expenses.
The participation costs are fully waived for EMJM scholarship holders.
For the 2026 edition, the InterMaths Consortium will offer a number of so-called Consortium Scholarships, which will be determined upon completion of the selection and will grant either:
Full waiver of the participation costs [Type A],
Or a discount on the participation costs, after which the student will have to pay 3,000 EUR (750 EUR at the beginning of each of the 4 semesters) [Type B].
To confirm their participation, both type-A and type-B Consortium scholarship holders will have to pay a 344-EUR non-refundable deposit within 30 days after notification of selection.
Type-A Consortium scholarship holders will receive a refund of the said amount (344 EUR) upon arrival in L'Aquila and finalisation of their enrolment.
Type-B Consortium scholarship holders will be required to clear the remaining 406 EUR before Semester 1 begins.
Other Funding Opportunities
All the information below is yet to be confirmed for the 2026 edition and does not apply to EMJM scholarship holders.
Pre Master Bonus
We're proud to confirm that since the 2022 edition, all our students who attended our PreMaster Program have been awarded a special bonus worth 100 EUR for each ECTS credit gained (credits are awarded after successfully passing a course examination). That means that in the past editions, they obtained up to 1,200 EUR for the first part of the PreMaster Program (consisting of 12 ECTS credits).
Please note that all terms, conditions and amounts (which are usually paid before the Christmas break and might be subject to taxes) are yet to be defined for the 2026 edition.
Contribution to travel and installation costs from the University of L'Aquila
Sponsor. University of L'Aquila. Office in charge: International Relations Office
Details. By submitting your application before February 25, 2026 (1 pm Italy time), you will automatically be considered for a contribution to travel and installation costs provided by the University of L'Aquila worth around EUR 3,000.
Number of scholarships. The number of scholarships allocated to our programme has not been defined yet. However, consider that in 2025, for our network, around 25 scholarships have been allocated in total for our 3 programmes.
How to apply? No additional application is required on your side. The University's overall ranking (which will involve all the other UAQ international students) will be based on our ranking. If selected, you will receive an award notification via email from the office in charge (international.students@univaq.it) typically in June-July. Contributions are expected to be paid by the end of December.
Erasmus+ Grant support for Students Mobility for Study (KA131)
Not to be confused with Erasmus Mundus (EMJM) scholarships!
In the paragraph below, with the word "mobility", we refer to a student enrolled at the University of L'Aquila who studies at our partner universities in Europe for some time. As you'll be enrolled at the University of L'Aquila too for the whole duration of our programme, you're eligible to apply for extra funding when you study abroad ("abroad" from the viewpoint of a L'Aquila student, then).
Sponsor. University of L'Aquila (Erasmus+ funding). Responsible Office: International Relations Office
Details. All our international students can benefit from Erasmus+ grants KA131 (Mobility for Study), provided by the EU via the University of L'Aquila, to finance up to 12 months spent on mobility abroad (for the RealMaths programme, it means the whole Year 2; for MathMods/InterMaths students, that means 6 months for Semester 2 and 6 more months for Semester 3 - if spent away from L'Aquila).
Please consider that for your mobility, you might also benefit from an additional special fund (referred to as the Disadvantaged fund) addressed to students from families that have generated a low income in Italy.
All in all, such grants, i.e. Erasmus+ for Mobility (~300 EUR/month) and Disadvantage Fund (~250 EUR/month depending on your family income in Italy) are expected to award our students up to EUR 550 per month for 12 months at most.
How to apply? Applications for Semester2- mobility usually open in December, while those for Year2-mobility typically open in February. There will be a selection mostly based on your previous and current academic records. Anyway, note that so far the allocated funding has always been enough to cover all our students going on mobility, no matter the final ranking.
Lastly, bear in mind a general Erasmus+ rule: you cannot obtain any funding if you go on mobility in the same country as the one where you reside (e.g. a Spanish student cannot apply to the University of L'Aquila for funding to do a study mobility in Spain).
Other funding opportunities and benefits
2026-intake students may also obtain other funding opportunities and benefits even from our partner universities (some of our partner universities, for instance, have offered accommodation at reduced fares to our students in Year2). Detailed information about how to apply and what such funding may cover will be emailed to applicants later on.
To give an idea, you may find below details about the funding opportunities available to students of the 2023 cohort. In their Year1 & Year2 they have all been receiving from the Abruzzo Region Agency for Education (A.D.S.U.) - Abruzzo is the region where L'Aquila is located:
Up to 3,000 EUR per year as allowance
Up to 1,700 EUR per year as rent reimbursement
Up to 600 EUR max. per 10 months on mobility abroad (not awarded if you have already received from the University an amount that is greater than or equal to that).
Free meals at UAQ canteens as of January.
Note, such a grant is usually paid in 2 instalments: 1) a very small part (less than 1,000 EUR) by the end of December; 2) at some point in the following summer.
How to apply? The application usually opens in August. Scholarships are addressed to students from low-income families. A few more details will be provided via email by us. For more direct support, you may refer to our Alumni Association starting in August.
Grants by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI)
The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI) offers grants to foreign citizens and Italian citizens living abroad to foster international cooperation in cultural, scientific and technological fields, to promote the Italian language and culture and to support Italy’s economic system in the world (According to Law 288/55 and its subsequent changes and additions).
Note that we don't offer any kind of support with this specific grant, but you may retrieve all the information required from the Ministry's official website.
Also, note that such type of grant might be incompatible with other grants you might be awarded for the same academic year (like the ones listed above by ADSU, Regional Agency). That doesn't mean that you cannot apply for the MAECI grant or for any of the others mentioned on this page. You're free to apply for any of them, but if you're selected, before accepting a specific grant, you'll have to check the related terms & conditions and ensure that they are not incompatible with any other grant you might have accepted in the meantime. If they are incompatible, you'll then have to forgo either before accepting.
Find out more about the MAECI grant
Selection procedure
Please note that you won't be charged any fee to take part in the whole application and selection process.
When the deadline for scholarships has passed, the Evaluation Committee will evaluate all the applications successfully submitted by then, and will draw up an Absolute Ranking List. Please note that this is the only ranking list that will be used for the awarding of scholarships. Such a list may be used for other funding opportunities available at the University of L'Aquila.
Eligible students will receive notification and will have to send confirmation of acceptance by email. They will also be provided with information about how to confirm their position and start the pre-enrolment phase.
The Evaluation Committee will then meet again in mid-August to finalise the pre-enrollments and to remove from the list the students who will not have certified the accomplishment of their required undergraduate qualifications.
Selection criteria
Academic Record
Academic records and quality/recognition of home institution having awarded the bachelor or equivalent degree
CV and professional experience
English proficiency
Motivation letter
Recommendation letters
In case of an equal score reached by two candidates, the Committee agrees to try and maintain gender balance first, and geographical balance secondly.
Selection lists will be available on this page (see the deadlines above).
Appeals might be submitted via email to the InterMaths evaluation committee
Application procedure
STEP 1
Registration
STEP 1
STEP 2
Fill in your application
Go to https://pica.cineca.it/univaq/2026-network-intermaths/ and log in using the username and password previously created. Then fill in your application form and upload the required documents.
STEP 3
Review your data
STEP 3
STEP 4
Sign and Submit
STEP 5
Get 2 reference letters
Appoint 2 referees and send them an invitation link from our application tool:
Reference system.
STEP 5
STEP 6
What happens next
Applications will only be considered for scholarships if they are submitted by 1 pm Italy time, 25 February 2026, complete with all required documents - reference letters might be submitted even later on, instead, as explained above.
So, make sure you complete the Sign and Submit process before such deadlines. Your application won't be taken into account unless you generate a PDF receipt, sign it and upload it back using the "Sign and Submit" function. There are 3 signing options, we suggest you use the third one in the list (handwritten signature)
Some screenshots to guide your through the application tool
Frequently Asked Questions
If you have completed the submission process (including signature), instead, your application has been assigned an official ID number and it cannot be changed in any way. You'll have to go through the withdrawal process first, sign your withdrawn application form, and upload it. After that, the system will give you confirmation of withdrawal, and will enable you to start a new one.
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Disclaimer on contained data
The European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), in the context of managing the Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters, collects and processes the personal data of some of the candidates.
In particular, certain data of the scholarship holders and non-scholarship holders is shared with the Agency and treated according to this privacy statement.
Please also view the Privacy notice on personal data processing by the University of L’Aquila for the admission to the Erasmus Mundus InterMaths Project
