Studying sustainability
Sustainability is the core topic of economic activity - already today.
Many companies are changing their operations, transforming their production and supply chains, optimising their energy consumption and supply. For that, they need professionals. Here you can find some of the university programmes in which they are trained.
Environmental technology for the future
How do you turn seawater into drinking water? And how can you produce energy from biomass? Process engineering can deliver solutions for tomorrow’s urgent questions. Students of the Bachelor degree programme in sustainable energy and environmental technologies (NEU) at the Hochschule Bremerhaven receive a basic engineering training before specialising in their main area of energy or environmental process engineering. Graduates of this practice-oriented degree course are highly sought-after wherever production has to be cost-effective, resource-efficient and environmentally friendly or people want their supplies to be based on sustainable principles.
Sustainable corporate governance
The tradition-steeped Eberwalde University for Sustainable Development (HNEE) trains experts in responsible management. The Master degree programme in sustainable corporate governance includes not only environmental business administration, but also sustainable human resources management. Students learn to integrate sustainable corporate governance into operational processes, to become active as sustainable entrepreneurs or to support and advise firms on the path towards a sustainable business model.
Energy and resource management
Originally a college of agriculture, the University of Nürtingen-Geislingen (HfWU) now has a strong emphasis on sustainable development. The Bachelor of Arts programme in energy and resource management combines business administration with questions of resource and energy management. The course covers economic, legal and technical aspects of the utilities and waste management sectors and trains graduates in networked thinking. One special feature of the programme is that it includes a stay abroad and therefore lasts seven semesters.
Applied systems science
A green degree programme with a social sciences element: the degree course in applied systems science at the University of Osnabrück is unique in Germany. It takes a closer look at the interrelationships between complex individual systems, such as a forest, a city or traffic and analyses their activity with the aim of developing control mechanisms. Mathematical and computer-based models are among the tools of the trade studied in this Bachelor programme.
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