Starting in September, the Netherlands’ first master’s degree programme in the scientific domain of climate change will be getting under way at Wageningen University. The programme is intended for students with an interest in climate from a broad perspective encompassing the natural sciences and socio-economic knowledge. The combination of both these aspects is unique, and provides students ample space to assemble their own educational programme within a broad framework. The programme consists of a mix of required, deepening and elective subjects, supplemented by seminars and laboratory and field practicums.
Wageningen UR has a strong international research reputation in the field of climate change. It is the Netherlands’ largest research and educational institution in the area of environment and has, within its team of climate specialists, four IPCC authors, who together with Al Gore won the Nobel Prize in 2007. Its expertise, brought together in the Climate Studies programme (MSc Earth System Science), is derived from a combination of natural and social sciences and interdisciplinary research.
With the new programme, Wageningen University is responding to the increasing clarity with which climate change manifests and the resultant growing demand for scientific experts who can interpret these changes. Climate Studies (MSc Earth Systems Science) is the first master’s degree programme in the scientific area of climate change in the Netherlands and the second in Europe.
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