Master in Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Societies
Tallinn, Estonia
DURATION
2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
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TUITION FEES
EUR 2,000 / per semester
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* july 1st non-EU/EEA citizens residing in estonia, have a valid estonian TRP I EU/EEA citizens residing in estonia, have a valid estonian id-card
Key Summary
Introduction
The Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Programme (EMJM) in Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Societies focuses on sustainability, artificial intelligence and data-driven decisions, and participatory design methods engaging citizens. The programme is designed together with three universities, Tallinn University, School of Digital Technologies, Tampere University, Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences and Lusófona University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Engineering and Technologies. After completing the Master’s Programme, students understand and can use a participatory design approach for studying and designing AI and data-driven sustainable solutions for societies.
Ideal Students
Who Are We Looking for?
Creative, visionary, reflective, and technologically interested students will shape the future of our cities, mobility, and well-being by caring for the earth. The programme welcomes students who master the English language, are open-minded, daring, and have a background or strong interest in one of the pillars. We welcome students with various backgrounds including:
- engineering
- information technology
- biology
- geography
- environmental sciences
- design
- social and humanistic studies
- cognitive science
- statistics and mathematics
- business and management
Although having a field-related educational background is a benefit for enrolment, there will be provided harmonization courses which will help candidates to get knowledge about specific areas before starting their studies.
Admissions
Curriculum
Course Outline
The programme consists of the following academically dependent specialisations, which are studied in parallel in 3 different locations:
- Enrolling in Tallinn, basic studies in sustainable societies, AI and data and design
- Continuing in Porto with a mix of electives and basic studies
- Arriving at Tampere, studies are in the form of an Interdisciplinary Project-based course with real clients
- Last semester focuses on professional placement and master’s thesis and allows students to choose a place from Tampere, Tallinn and Porto for their studies.
Compulsory courses
- Principles of Service Design
- Sustainable Design
- Fundamentals of Accessibility
- Collective Intelligence in Socio-Technical Systems
- Civic Engagement
- Sustainable Development Goals and Guidelines
- Introduction to Data Science
- Fundamentals of Statistics for Data Science
- Geographic Information Systems
Elective Courses
- Users and Digital Literacy
- Digital Dismodernity: Inclusion and the Diagnostic Society
- Information Visualization and Representation
- Data Driven Decision Making and Change Management in Organisations
- Topics on Machine Learning and its Applications
- Applied Programming for Data Science
Harmonising Courses
- Introduction to Sustainable Digital Life
- Active Academic Reading and Writing
- MOOCs
Compulsory courses
- Interdisciplinary Project
- Master´s Thesis Seminar I
- Master´s Thesis Seminar II
- Research Methods
Professional Placement
- Traineeship Abroad
- Practice