Environmental Management | Courses & research | Environmental & Energy Management

During your Master’s in Environmental & Energy Management (MEEM), you will collect a total of 60 EC within one year. The curriculum consists of a set of compulsory courses for all students, which will give you a solid foundation in all three domains of environment, energy and water, as well as two personal development electives. You will focus specifically on the domain of your specialisation – environmental management – in the case project and your master’s thesis, which take place in the second semester (February to August).

European Credit Transfer System

Student workload at Dutch universities is expressed in EC, also named ECTS (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System), which is widely used throughout the European Union. In the Netherlands, each credit represents 28 hours of work.

STRUCTURE

	Number of EC
Compulsory courses	31 EC	Environmental Management Energy Management Water Management Sustainability & Law Policy & Sustainability Rurban Commons Academic Research Skills Research Proposal
Personal Development Electives You choose two out of five electives	4 EC	Sustainability & Justice Digitalisation & Sustainability Sustainability Game Stakeholder and Social Network Analysis Critical Sustainable Futures
Case Project Environmental Management	10 EC	You work on a case related to the field of environmental management, together with a team of fellow students, applying the challenge-based learning approach.
Master’s thesis Environmental Management	15 EC	You will finish your Master’s with your master’s thesis.
Total EC first year	60 EC

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Case project in Environmental Management
In your second semester, you will work on a case study project together with a group of your fellow students. This project reflects a real-life, relevant challenge in society, related to the broad theme of environmental management and sustainability. You and your teammates will come up with your own topic within this field, and develop a strategy and design a (potential) solution to this challenge. You can even connect to external clients, like a municipality, regional authorities or association(s), a local environmental entity, NGO, or a company, and present your solution there!
Examples of case study projects students took on:
- Analysing waste reduction strategies for the Island of Vlieland, the Netherlands
- Exploring promising circularity options for the agrifood sector in Friesland, the Netherlands.
- Conducting a market and contextual analysis for a circular jeans brand
- Social acceptance of green and blue infrastructures in the Vlietzone, Leeuwarden
Master's thesis in Environmental Management
You will complete MEEM by writing your master’s thesis. The choice of your thesis subject is largely up to you. You could come up with your own proposal, or you could connect with ongoing research within UT’s Section of Governance and Technology for Sustainability (CSTM), on topics such as environmental policy approaches, eco-innovations, corporate environmental strategy, circular economy studies, or market development, to name some examples.
In your master’s thesis, you could focus on subjects such as:
Study of the effects of ecotourism on forest conservation and rural development in Way Kambas National Park, Indonesia
Analysis of policy instruments to enable circularity in the food packaging industry
Evaluation of the socio-technical opportunities of the chemical recycling of tires
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