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PROGRAMME's REAL COSTS
Since their scholarships cover most of the participation costs, the registration fees habitually charged towards a programme’s running costs are waved for the different fellowship holders within the GEM PhD School. However, the generosity of the fellowships on offer may in no way mask the programme’s real costs.
All admitted students must be aware of all incurred real costs. On the one hand, a first concern is to provide the lucky few who have secured a scholarship with a sense of the extent to which they are being financially looked after – be it through direct financial backing or complementary cost waivers. On the other hand, “independently” or “alternatively” funded students – i.e. financially independent participants – are to be provided with a transparent and realistic estimation of the direct costs associated with securing all the rights and services characterizing the GEM PhD School.
With an eye on transparency, a single common consortium-wide cost projection was agreed upon by all of the GEM PhD School's constituent members. Regardless of a candidate’s chosen Jointly Executed Research Project (i.e. MORGANITE, CITRINE or AMETRNE), the GEM PhD School's basic cost per student are edstimated at a Flat Annual Rate of some 10 000€/Year.
Morevover, in light of the national paticularities and premiums associated with English University fees; when a student is admitted into a mobility action including a stay at the University of Warwick, an annual “England Premium” is to be added to the aforementioned annual cost estimates.
In line with the additional costs born from the substantially higher standard English tuition fees compared to the other diploma-awarding European countries included in the programme, the additional overheads are valued at 5000€/year for non-EU citizens and 2500 €/year for EU citizens.
These average projections includes all participation and tuition costs born from the students’ enrolment in the GEM PhD School. One can distinguish three components of the underlying cost structure resulting directly from a student’s registration:
| I° - Tuition & Registration Costs |
The annual Tuition fees due in the 1st institution |
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The annual Tuition fees due in the 2nd institution |
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| II° - Managment & Programme Development Costs | The GEM’s Central Executive Office’s Overheads |
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The Partner Institutions’ Administrative Overheads |
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| III° - Teaching & Mobility Costs | The costs related to specific GEM Training provisions |
| The institutional costs born from the structural mobility actions |
As highlighted above, considering the inevitably high costs associated with transnational programmes of excellence involving several institutions and international mobility actions; the GEM PhD School has teamed up with external partners such as the European Commission so as to foresee genereous multiannual fellowships covering all costs associated with doctoral endeavour within GEM.