Integrated Environmental Studies ERDE

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An ever-increasing world population demanding food, water, energy, health care, and education puts unprecedented pressure on both, the “Earth System” that is its natural environment and resource, and the institutions that design the framework organizing access to and distribution of resources and education. Successful sustainable management of these global challenges, therefore, requires an integrated approach which combines elements from the natural and engineering sciences with those from social, political and economics studies.

The study program Integrated Environmental Studies provides a broad and interdisciplinary education in these diverse fields within the multicultural environment of Jacobs University Bremen with its students from about 100 different countries. In addition to lectures and seminars, students will gain practical experience and skills during laboratory courses, excursions (on coal, power plants, renewable energy, environmental impact of mining, energy policy, sustainable development projects) and internships, all of which are taught in English. In the course of the program, students are given the option to focus on specializations "Environment and Resources” or “Energy Policy and Technology”.