Statement on Privacy and Data Use
The Euroculture Consortium regards the privacy of its applicants and students as a high priority. Please read the below statement carefully. You are requested to agree with the conditions of the privacy statement when submitting your application via our application tool.
Additionally, if you are selected to the programme, you will be requested to sign an additional privacy form to empower the Euroculture programme to use your personal data for the managerial purposes of the Master programme.
Via the Online Application Tool (OAT), the Euroculture Consortium collects certain personal data of our applicants.
What data are collected?
Full name
Date of birth
Nationality/nationalities
Gender
Special (study) needs
Current home address
Country and city of residence
E-mail address
Educational background and language skills
Professional and volunteer experience (CV)
Who collects and processes this data?
The data, together with the required documents, are available for processing to the Euroculture staff in the three universities mentioned during the application, as they assess the applications, and to the Euroculture Consortium Secretariat at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. The Rijksuniversiteit Groningen is in charge of coordinating the student intake each year, including the selection of students for the Erasmus Mundus scholarship. Erasmus Mundus scholarship applications are additionally pre-screened by the Admissions Office of the University of Groningen to ensure that the educational level of the candidates is sufficient to be admitted to the Master in Euroculture.
The Euroculture Consortium partner universities (defined under the Euroculture Consortium Agreement) have signed an agreement on the procedures for collecting and processing applicants’ data. The Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, as the coordinating university of the Consortium, is charged with collecting, storing and sharing the applicants' data with its partners. All documents and personal data submitted by individuals during the application in the Online Application Tool is stored in server space reserved by the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen through the FormDesk software. After the application period has ended, your application files may be temporarily archived locally on the intranet of the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. This data may be extracted and used by all participating partner universities in the Euroculture Consortium for the purposes of assesing applications and registering applicants with higher education institutions associated with the Euroculture Consortium.
Additionally, if an application is selected for the Euroculture MA (proposed for a scholarship, put on the reserve list or enrolled on a self-paying basis), its data may be used for the purposes of evaluating the Erasmus programmes, efficiently managing Erasmus projects, and producing statistics. Data could be made available to the Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), the European Commission, the European External Action Service staff, as well as to other stakeholders of the Erasmus+ programme, such as Erasmus+ National Agencies, National Erasmus+ Offices and the Erasmus Mundus Student and Alumni Association.
Why are these data collected and processed?
These data are collected in order to evaluate both self-funding and scholarship applications and determine which applicants can be accepted to the Master programme. Additionally, the information on applicants’ educational background (including the location of the first university) and nationality can be used to improve the Euroculture programme’s marketing and PR activities.
Every applicant is requested to read and agree to this privacy statement before submitting their application. The above-mentioned parties are thereby empowered to collect, store and process the applicants’ personal data through the explicit consent of the applicant.