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Service Design and Engineering (SDE) specialisations in the second year
Mobile Services (Smart Spaces, Health and Well Being, and Digital Cities) - Aalto University
There are today more than 2.4 billion mobile phone users, and a thousand more are added every minute! About 30% of these mobile phones have a full-blown Internet browser counting more than 700 million and growing. This is why the mobile web browsing is predicted to become the next predominant Internet platform.
Many customer-driven companies are innovating and evaluating how to add more value by new mobile services. Mobile services are not simple services; they are integration of services, enterprise information services, multimedia and open data, and location bases spatial information. Companies can create them, or user initiate new service by composition of existing ones independent of time and location. This has generated special procedures involved in designing mobile services.
Specialization in mobile services teaches students to become proficient in all areas of mobile services design and engineering. Students learn to build, maintain and repair mobile services, open data services and web software applications. Service concept design, prototyping (scrum and agile programming), programming projects, computer systems architectures and service troubleshooting are common issues in a mobile services development specialization. The specialization concludes with a capstone project and thematic thesis project demonstrating proficiency in mobile and Internet services development.
The specialization at Aalto University is closely linked to Smart Spaces and Health and Well being thematic action lines. The action lines are integral part of I&E winter school, and industry engagement in business development labs during the first year and in capstone projects during the second year. The key deliverable of this coupling will be achieved mainly in form of capstone with VTT and Nokia and MSc thesis projects with industry. Aalto University participates, together with Nokia, in a research to business project Smart Spaces, and other companies in Health and Well-being research project.

Service-Oriented Business Process Management (Health and Well Being) - TU Eindhoven
3TU.NIRICT will offer the specialization Service-oriented Business Process Management; it will be organised by the Architecture of Information Systems group at Eindhoven University of Technology. Head of the Business process management specialization with thematic coupling to EIT ICT Labs health and well being is Dr. Bas Luttik.
Business process management establishes a crucial link between, on the one hand, the realisation of the technical infrastructure supporting software intensive digital services, and, on the other hand, the entrepreneurial and business aspects of a service-oriented organisation. An analysis of the business
processes within an organisation helps to determine a suitable service decomposition for the organisation. Furthermore, when a service-oriented architecture has been established, it is important to measure not only the performance of the technical realisation of the system, but also the performance of processes within the organisation and between organisations. Both model-based analysis (e.g., simulation) and data and process mining techniques can be used to determine the performance of a service or service composition at the level of the business process within an organisation.
The specialization Service-oriented Business Process Management will address the issues mentioned above. It will present techniques for the modeling and analysis of business processes in a services context.
The specialization at 3TU.NIRICT will focus on the thematic action line Health and Well-being. The coupling will be achieved mainly in the MSc thesis projects. 3TU.NIRICT participates, together with Philips, in a research to business project Service Spaces for Health and Well-being. Together with Philips we will define graduation projects associated with that project. Furthermore, the role of service spaces for health and well-being will be addressed in the courses Metamodeling and Interoperability.

Service-oriented Social Informatics (Health and Well Being, and Digital Cities) - UNITN
Distributed service systems (digital cities, and health and well being) - Budapest
Head of the Distributed service systems specialization with thematic coupling to EIT ICT Labs digital cities, and health and wellbeing is professor Zoltán Horváth.
Within the EIT SDE Master, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) and Technical University of Budapest (BME), as the two universities at the Budapest Associate Node will offer a specialization on distributed service systems. The focus of the specialization is to support the design, analysis and development of complex distributed telecommunication services.
ELTE has strong research groups in analyzing complex systems, which are used in social services, in communication networks and in services provided by telecommunication software. The students enrolled for the major specialization will be involved into large-scale innovative projects initiated by industrial partners. The cooperation between ELTE and industry is organized by involving researchers, PhD students, and the master students with industrial staff at the InfoPark where the university campus of ELTE, BME Budapest and industrial partners are co-located.
BME has a testbed for mobile communication networks, where software components for mobile services are developed. Students are involved into these projects. BME has a strong research and development groups in integrating legacy and new information systems for public services on SOA basis. The students will be involved into different projects solving interoperability, organizational, and coordination problems. They will be able to formalize, design, and deploy different schemes of business processes.
Eötvös Loránd University and Technical University of Budapest are in process of translating the existing program to English.
Coupling to EIT ICT Labs action lines
The specialization at ELTE University is linked to action lines, where distributed software services are applied, e.g. the Digital Cities, Smart Spaces and Health and Well Being thematic action lines. Industrial partners provide real world, large scale innovative projects for students to participate.

Summer & Winter Schools and Camps
All students take part in an EIT ICT Master School kick-off and a joint summer programme. Summer and winter schools support each individual study programme with a multidisciplinary and international dimension, and create a clear EIT ICT Labs joint touch to our education. A set of thematic oriented camps with integrated technical and business focus are organized in co-operation with research and business activities. They summer and winter schools bring together various stakeholders in our eco-system at EIT ICT Labs. Integrated competitions and camps on innovation aspects provide focused hands-on experience for our students, young faculty and post-docs.

Requirements

Ranking and selection
The number of study places available is limited and the application process highly competitive.

The application and selection process is coordinated by the Master School Office. Applications are processed in three steps:

* Document legacy and eligibility control regarding academic background and English proficiency (Master School Office)
* Control of specific admission requirements for each major applied for (Technical Major Programme Committee)
* Ranking (Technical Major Programme Committee)

The ranking is based on a total evaluation of the following criteria:

* Suitability of acquired bachelor degree for intended study program
* Academic excellence (Quality and recognition of home university, Study success)
* Entrepreneurial excellence
* Innovative potential

To qualify applicants need to fulfill the admission requirements based on previous studies, English proficiency and documentation.

1. Previous studies: A completed Bachelor's degree
Applicants must have completed a Bachelor's degree encompassing a minimum of 180 ECTS credits or equivalent academic qualifications from an internationally recognized university.

Conditional acceptance

Students in their final year of undergraduate education may also apply and if qualified, receive a conditional offer. If you have not completed your studies, please include a written statement from the degree administration office (or equivalent department), confirming that you are enrolled on the final year of your education and giving your expected completion date. If you receive a conditional offer, you should present your degree certificate to the Admissions Office before enrollment at the latest. Applicants following longer technical programmes and who have completed courses equivalent to an amount of 180 ECTS, will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

2. Language requirements: Proof of English proficiency
Applicants must provide proof of their English language proficiency, which is most commonly established through an internationally recognized test.

IELTS Academic Training test (An overall band score of at least 6.5, with no section lower than 6, is required. IELTS-tests are verified online by the Master School Office, sending a photocopy of your test together with your application documents is therefore sufficient.

TOEFL Internet-based test (A total score of at least 92 (with writing section 22) is required. English test results from TOEFL should be sent directly from the ETS test centre to KTH Admissions Office (institution code 7966, department code 99). Examinee score reports or photocopies are not accepted. Please also note that neither TOEIC nor institutional TOEFL are accepted as sufficient proof of English proficiency.

University of Cambridge/ University of Oxford Certificates Certificate in Advanced English (CAE): grades A- C are accepted. Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE): grades A- C are accepted.

3. Specific admission requirements for the majors
A B.Sc. degree in computer science is required. Outstanding bachelor students from other disciplines, such as industrial design, electrical engineering, computer engineering, information systems sciences, media technology, computational linguistics, and cognitive sciences with sufficient skills in mathematics, software design and programming, may be considered as well.

English Language Requirements

Funding

For the most highly ranked admitted students (as a minimum 30%), we will provide fee waivers. EIT ICT Labs has also reserved funding for scholarships covering personal expenses on the level of 9000 Euro per year and student, however a formal decision by the European Commission is pending in this matter.