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Cities and Sustainability

The specialisation Cities and Sustainability in the master's programme Urban, Energy and Environmental Planning is focusing on how to create stronger urban environments and qualities by using a more holistic, multidisciplinary and participatory approach, placing citizens at the centre, and creating benefits and life quality for the city’s inhabitants and users.

<p>The specialisation Cities and Sustainability focuses on how to create stronger urban environments and qualities by using a more holistic, multidisciplinary and participatory approach, placing citizens at the centre, and creating benefits and life quality for the city’s inhabitants and users.</p>
<h3>The education is framed on the basis of a strong cooperation between four European and eight international universities.</h3>
<p>Last year of the education focus on exchange, and in the specialisation it is therefore expected that students wish to work internationally and inter-culturally. </p>
<p>Cities and Sustainability specialisation comes out of the The Erasmus Mundus Joint European Master in Environmental Studies - Cities &amp; Sustainability (JEMES CiSu).</p>
<p>Four European collaborators:</p>
<ul>
<li>Aalborg University</li>
<li>Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona</li>
<li>Technische Universität Hamburg</li>
<li>Universidade de Aveiro</li>
</ul>

<h3>Academic content</h3>
<p>The education is structured in a way so you every semester have courses and project work. The problem oriented project work at the education gives you the possibility to combine the professional skills with your interests within development of sustainable cities as well as with actual challenges and problems that cities, inhabitants and the business conditions are facing.</p>
<p>The education is divided in four semesters that runs from September to January and from February to June (where January and June are reserved for the exams). This means that the student is typically completing the master’s degree in two years.</p>
<p>Each one of the first three semesters is subdivided in course modules and a project module. All the courses are being progressed in English. The fourth and thereby the last semester is dedicated to draw up a dissertation that often is being produced in a close cooperation with external stakeholders and supervision from minimum two partner universities. </p>
<p>The education is based on international research work on the highest level and occupies with areas such as sustainable development, urban planning, air pollution, climate changes, ecological economics, environmental protection and planning, industrial ecology, material and energy flow analysis, sustainability assessment, waste and resource management and the connection between water, energy and food nexus.</p>

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<h3>Traineeship &amp; study abroad</h3>
<p>Cities and Sustainability (CiSu) offers you a unique opportunity on 3rd semester. You are given the possibility of studying abroad for a semester and stay with one of the CiSu collaborators:</p>
<ul>
<li>Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona</li>
<li>Technische Universität Hamburg</li>
<li>Universidade de Aveiro</li>
</ul>
<p>The strong collaboration between the four universities and the strong international profile is one of the things that makes the study programme special.</p>
<h4>The benefits of studying abroad</h4>
<p>By going abroad, you get an international perspective on your major and a chance to learn and see things in a broader context. You gain a hands-on intercultural understanding and an international experience, which is worth its weight in gold, especially if you are considering an international career, because it will strengthen your career opportunities.</p>
<p>By studying abroad you get to see the world, and when you move to another country you meet a lot of new people. You get to meet both local and international students – and you will be building an international network - network that consists of both peers and new friends.</p>
<p>Last but not least there is no doubt that a stay in a foreign country strengthens your growth on a personal level. It is an opportunity to discover yourself and return with some life experience.</p>

CiSU students

<h3>Job and career</h3>
<p>Through the education Urban-, Energy and Environmental Planning you choose yourself how to set the scene for your future. The master’s degree with the specialisation in Cities and Sustainability gives different job opportunities, where you will be able to combine interdisciplinary.</p>
<p>The graduates with the specialisation in Cities and Sustainability are expected to have different possibilities of careers, for example:</p>
<ul>
<li>Energy companies and local authorities than create the foundation for the continuous energy systems in the cities.</li>
<li>Local authorities, companies and consultancies that work with mobility planning in urban areas.</li>
<li>NGO’s and research centres that work with behavioural changes when focusing on the users and their consumption in relation to sustainable building and energy effective products. </li>
</ul>

I'm working in Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy as an HSE specialist in environmental topics. I'm in charge of defining and cascading the environmental strategy of the company and setting environmental targets towards a net-zero carbon operation. Additionally, I support the consolidation of internal reports such as the sustaiability and GHG emmissions report and also to report to various sustainability and climate change indexes.


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