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Study Details: MSc 2 years full-time, 120 ECTS, Copenhagen
Internationally, cities and business pose a significant challenge to sustainable development, both environmentally, socially and economically. In the future, up to 70-80% of the world population will live in cities, and thus it is important to handle the challenges they pose. It is significant that planning is done across sectors and professions likeenergy, water, waste, urban planning, etc. Thus, it is necessary to be able to think across sectors, analyse consequences in multiple areas and include stakeholder such as citizens, companies and environmental organisations.
The Master Programme In Sustainable Cities at Aalborg University Copenhagen will cover issues of engineering such as waste, energy, water resources and transport, as well as political science, green growth and different forms of impact assessment. The graduates from this Master of Science will be educated in being capable of creating the framework for the Sustainable Cities of the future, where economic, social and environmental purposes are integrated in new ways.
To enter this master programme you must have a relevant bachelor degree. The bachelor in Urban, Energy and Environmental Planning at Aalborg University gives you direct access to the programme. Other relevant bachelor degrees could be within engineering, geography, politics or social science. However, all applications for the master programme are evaluated individually and the relevancy of the bachelor degree is evaluated through this process.
You can study as a guest student on the first and/or second semester or as a master student following the entire two-year degree programme.
Students seeking to enrol in the programme are required to have the following qualifications:
Please make sure that you send your application form and further documentation via post to the International Office by the required deadline.
All applications are evaluated individually.
Students from outside EU/EEA please see http://www.apply.aau.dk/how-to-apply-postgraduate/tuition-fee/
Graduates from the programme are expected to have many possible career paths, for example within
•Energy companies and local authorities, creating the basis for renewable energy systems in cities.
•Local authorities, companies and consultancies working with mobility management in urban areas.
•NGOs and research centres working with behavioral change in users and comsumers in relation to sustainable construction or energy efficient products.
The degree offered is Master of Science in Engineering (Sustainable Cities). The courses and the project work are carried out in English. Therefore, the programme is open to Danish as well as international students with a relevant Bachelor of Science degree in engineering or equivalent.
It is a priority for us that you have the opportunity to work with external partners, for instance in your semester projects, which can be carried out in cooperation with authorities, companies, NGOs, etc. This way you get to work on real life problems, preparing you for your professional carreer.
Semester 1
Theme: The role of organisations and business in sustainable cities
Each project group chooses a topic for its semester report within the theme of the semester. The topic can be primarily theoretical or empirical and usually takes its point of departure in a specific policy, organisation, or an environmental problem.
Each project group chooses a topic for its semester report within the theme of the semester. The topic can be primarily theoretical or empirical and usually takes its point of departure in a specific policy, institution, or an environmental problem.
This semester will provide the student with the option of applying the theoretical and methodological knowledge gained during the 1st and 2nd semesters into practice in real life situations in Denmark or abroad. This could take form as an internship within for example a private consultancy firm, a public authority or a private NGO. The choice of internship is made on the basis of your interests. During the internship, you participate in the activities of an organisation and collect information for the project report. The project report is expected to have both a theoretical and empirical part relating to the actual experience of the internship.
An alternative option is to enrol at another (Danish or foreign) university in order to undertake a semester’s study there.
Finally there is an option for adding the 3rd and the 4th semester into a ‘prolonged project’, if for instance the research question demands more time and energy for collecting data or conducting field studies.
In the final semester the main focus is on the writing of the Master’s Thesis. Students work individually or in small groups, under the guidance of supervisory staff. The Master’s thesis, being the highest level of work undertaken, should aim at synthesising theories and methods in order to perform a potential solution for real life environmental planning and management problems.
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