The Erasmus Mundus Masters Course International Master in Advanced Clay Science plans to form high level graduates in the field of clay science by providing them the competence, fundamental knowledge and skill necessary to perfectly assimilate the more recent developments in clay science and their applied perspectives.
The term Clay Science is used in its widest sense as it covers a very large and multidisciplinary domain, with career prospects in the cement and ceramic industry, paper and paint industry, civil engineering, geotechnics, nanotechnology, mineralogy-crystallography, pedology, geology, medicine, cosmectic industry, foods, petroleum and mining industry, environmental cleanup, groundwater protection…
The IMACS provides a complete background in the main fields of clay science and technology as well as an in depth professional specialisation in two of the following fields :
Environment, Soil and Geological system
Geomaterials and Civil Engineering – Assessment and processing
Advanced clay, Nanomaterial
Healing minerals
Call for application to 2011-2013 IMACS programme (Students & Researchers).
Call for application occurs in October each year for the programme beginning in September the following year (i.e. in October 2010 for the programme beginning in Sep. 2011).
