The Master’s Programme in Environmental Engineering is designed to equip its graduates with the expertise, the soft and hard skills necessary to address the ongoing and future environmental challenges threatening the security and resilience of the ecosystem, and the societal well-being. These challenges, aggravated by the changing climate, include, for example, atmospheric and air pollution, deterioration in water quality, urban waste treatment, environmental pollution, erosion of the coastline and decarbonisation of the energy industry.

Environmental Engineering students are therefore introduced to the scientific knowledge and state-of-the-art methodologies for understanding atmospheric processes, recycling urban wastes, battling environmental pollution through biotechnology, improving water and air quality in cities, protecting the coastal zone and producing energy from renewable sources. Our students have also the opportunity to focus on aspects related to sustainable development for the built environment, hydrology and hydrogeology.

This Master’s Programme in Environmental Engineering offers a multi-disciplinary focus on environmental protection and management in a changing world. The Programme is intended for Environmental, Civil, and Chemical Engineers, Biologists, Chemists, Physicists and graduates with similar expertise. For graduating, MSc students must successfully complete 7 graduate courses (56 ECTS) and a research Thesis (CEE 680, 54 ECTS).

Key Learning Outcomes

The aim of the Environmental Engineering Programme is to provide its graduates with an edge against competition by preparing them for the challenges involved in environmental management and engineering projects and impact assessment studies, and for creating innovative solutions to the problems faced by their future employers, such as local councils and authorities, the wider public and the private sector.

Sustainable development is strongly associated with Environmental Engineering. In Europe and worldwide, climate change and the deterioration of the natural environment have been identified at the top of the list with the threats against financial growth and societal well-being. To this end, the EU has designed and deployed a new strategic development framework for increasing resource productivity and decoupling economic growth from resource use and its environmental impact. The recent European Green Deal provides an action roadmap to enhance sustainability and resilience in the production and usage of resources, and to promote the transition into a clean and cyclic economy. At the core of this roadmap lies the overall aim to restore biodiversity and reduce pollution.

With the above in mind, the Programme combines highly specialised and contemporary teaching components with practical applications while promoting cutting-edge research.