Will you help navigate society towards environmental sustainability? In this Master's programme you learn about planetary boundaries and societal transitions, and acquire skills to solve sustainability challenges with societal actors.

Something for you?

• Become a sustainability navigator: an applied scientist or academic professional who is able to guide transitions towards a sustainable society.
• Combine your passion for the natural and management sciences with the ambition to solve environmental sustainability challenges.
• Learn and work with societal actors such as companies, authorities and civilians.
• Develop yourself in a personal and professional way.

What will you learn:

The Science for Sustainability programme is a 2-year full-time on-campus learning programme. You learn how to contribute to environmental sustainability challenges (e.g. biodiversity decline, climate change or resource scarcity) in collaboration with societal actors. The second year centres around the MSc thesis. 

Science for Sustainability has four learning lines:

1. quantitative assessment and modelling with a focus on the natural sciences
2. focus on governance and organisational change rooted in the management and organisation sciences
3. a sustainability learning line with a focus on integrating different types of disciplinary knowledge and
4. a skills-oriented learning line on transdisciplinarity with a methodological focus on how to define, analyse and address environmental sustainability challenges in collaboration with scientists of other disciplines and societal actors. 

Future career opportunities:

The aim of the Master's programme Science for Sustainability is to train sustainability navigators, i.e., applied scientists or academic professionals who are able to guide the transition towards a sustainable society in collaboration with societal actors. 

Labour market research has shown that there is a great need for transdisciplinary trained sustainability experts. A selection of possible positions that graduates can fulfil include sustainability advisor for governments or companies, sustainability researcher, knowledge broker in the field of sustainability, and environmental expert. There are also graduates who become an entrepreneur and start their own sustainable company.

Possible occupations:

• Sustainability advisor for governments or companies
• Environmental expert
• Sustainability researcher