Programme Structure

The MEEM programme has three main parts. First, there is a period with course work of about 21 weeks. Second, there is a case study period of about 8 weeks, and finally a research project of about 16 weeks. Research project preparations already start during the course work period in the course ‘Academic Research skills’ for which, amongst other, students need to write the proposal for their final research project.

The course work can be categorised around three main themes:

§	Management (business administration)

§	Governance and Law

§	Technology (mainly in a contextual sense).

Next to the courses on the three themes, courses or course elements are included that are more integrative in nature, and also workshops / courses concerned with academic research and professional skills. In general, there are many interlinks between courses.

The course list is given in the table below. The programme has a size of 65 European Credits (EC), which is about 1820 hours. Please note that most programmes are 60 EC, which means the MEEM programme is more intensive than most other programmes.

CONSTITUTING COURSES OF THE MEEM PROGRAMME

Item	ECs	Item	ECs
Courses (joint programme)
Policy Strategies and Implementation for Water Governance and other Sustainability Issues	4	Environment and Technology	4
Environmental Law	2	Environmental Management and Corporate Social Responsibility	4
Energy: Management, Policy and Technology	4	Ecology, Society and Sustainable Development	2
Management: operations, organisations and financial analysis	4	*Total*	24
Research & professional skills (joint programme)
Academic Research Skills: Methodology, effective writing & Research Proposal	4	Communication, management and consulting skills	2
EIA (optional) and Managing environmental disputes (optional)	(1)
		*Total*	6
Case study period & Research project (specialised programme)
Specialisation: Environmental management, Energy management, Water governance
Case study period Environmental, Energy or Water			12
Research project Environmental, Energy or Water			23
*Total*			35
Overall total: 65 EC

The course work period is common for all students. After this, for the case studies and research project, students choose a specialization: Environmental Management, Energy Management or Water Governance.

EMSI

In the past few years of running MEEM, parts of the course work – (a) Energy: Management, Policy and Technology, (b) Communication, Management & Consulting skills, (c) part of Environmental management and Corporate Social Responsibility, (d) Management: operations, organisations and financial analysis, (e) Environmental Impact Assessment - have been offered in the form of a 5-week short course . This short course (Energy Management and cleaner production in small and medium sized industries) was also attended by students outside of MEEM, who have at least a Bachelor degree and several years of work experience. This opens opportunities for exchange of knowledge and experience, and this is stimulated by means of participant presentations. More information about this short course can be found on: www.utwente.nl/cstm/courses

After the course work period, students need to choose either the Environmental Management, Energy Management or Water Governance specialisation. Next, students enter the case study period. In this period students work on projects that are either taken from or are based on real life situations. Next to this students start or continue the preparation of their research proposal with their tutor.

Finally, students enter the research project which has a nominal length of about four months (23 EC). This project can be executed either at the University or at an external host organisation. Also, students have the opportunity to do their final research project abroad. The decision usually depends on the future career plans of the students. Both the preparation and execution phase are supervised.

The programme has a certain degree of flexibility in execution, to match the timetables of both students and lecturers.