UniTrento Master

Sustainability and international cooperation

The graduate courses are part of the curriculum “Environmental Sustainability and International Cooperation. The specific objectives of this curriculum, a core activityof the Chair, are:

To integrate the traditional skills of environmental engineers with knowledge of notions about human and sustainable development, international cooperation, multi-stakeholder participation.
To provide engineering students a first awareness of the international dimensions of environmental engineering, also fostering practical experiences in international development projects
To develop the necessary knowledge and skills for making engineering choices appropriate to the local environmental and social context.

Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering

Courses offered

This curriculum aims to equip studends with the necessary technical knowledge, tools and critical skills needed to detect critical environmental problems, related causes and underlying processes and dynamics, to identify context-appropriate solutions and strategies able to integrate environmental protection with sustainable human development. This is achieved through an educational package that comprises many educational courses at MSc level.

The courses methodology integrates traditional lectures with active learning approaches including group activities (Role play, joint project development), field visit, a project-based course with practical fieldwork (including design and data post-processing). Two internships (short and long) can be part of the program based on the student’s choice: the short one is a group work, the long is individual work within development project.

Core courses

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International experiences within the curriculum

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The group of students, accompanied by professors, will take part in two weeks of fieldwork aimed at developing an international cooperation project. Students are directly involved in field data collection, analysis, surveys, and in the development of project proposals. All activities are carried out in partnership with governmental institutions and civil society organizations, and focus on various topics such as river management, water supply and sanitation, watershed management, solid waste management, analysis of geomorphological processes, and soil erosion. The results of these project activities are environmental engineering projects that are shared with partner organizations and often become part of their future development plans.

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Master thesis

It is highly recommended to do the thesis research abroad in a context of international cooperation. The skills aquired during the two-year degree will be enhanced during the period of the project (generally 3 months). The student will be monitored by their Italian supervisor and directly helped by the local partner.

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