Environmental Sanitation

The ‘Master of Science in Environmental Sanitation’ (IMENVI) aims to train environmental experts who have a good knowledge of all compartments and processes of the environment (soil, water, air), can make use of integrated insights and multidisciplinary approaches in environmental science and technology and combine preventive and remediation instruments to support a sustainable exploitation of the environment.

New graduates are targeted to understand and deal with multi-stakeholder perspectives needed to solve environmental issues on a local and global scale, with a particular set of tools and standards (such as integrated environmental modeling and environmental impact assessment protocols), useful in developing countries.

General Courses

• Biosolids and Solid Waste Treatment
• Environmental Ecology
• Ecological Risk Assessment
• Applied Statistics
• Analysis and Abatement of Air Pollution
• Water Quality Management
• Environmental Microbiology
• Analysis and Abatement of Water Pollution
• Environmental Soil Science
• Biotechnological Processes of Environmental Sanitation
• Clean Technology
• Environmental Impact Assessment: Integrated Project

Major Air  

• Advanced Waste Gas Treatment
• Urban and Indoor Air Pollution
• Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling

Major Soil  

• Soil Remediation
• Quality of Groundwater Resources
• Contaminant Transport in Soils

Major Water  

• Natural Systems for (Waste)Water Treatment
• Quality of Groundwater Resources
• Water Quality Modelling

Elective Courses

Module Management

• Management of Natural Resources
• Environmental Economics and Policy
• Environmental Legislation
• Bio-ethics

Module Human Health

• Environmental Virology and Parasitology
• Environmental Noise
• Basic concepts in Public Health and Epidemiology

Module Advanced Technologies  

• Microbial Re-use Technology
• Membrane Processes in Environmental Technology
• Basics of Control Engineering and Process Engineering

Module Earth and Soil  

• Soil Degradation
• Meteorology and climatology
• Plant-Water Relations in the Soil-Plant-Atmosphere Continuum
• Soil Water Management
• Land Information Systems

Module Environmental Impact

• Environmental Impact of Global Change
• Life Cycle Assessment
• Aquaculture Environmental Impact
• Environmental Impact of Pesticides

Requirements

• Applicants must have at least a Bachelor's degree of min. 3 year with good overall scores (at least a second class upper or equivalent).
• Applicants must be able to demonstrate through their transcripts basic science training in at least 5 out of 7 of the following fields: (i) Mathematics, including basic statistics; (ii) Physics; (iii) Chemistry; (iv) Biochemistry; (v) Biology; (vi) Microbiology; (vii) Engineering. Some background in aquaculture is recommended too.

• Language requirements:
  The applicant must be proficient in the language of the course or training programme, i.e. English. The English language proficiency can be met by providing a certificate (validity of 5 years) of one of the following tests: (TOEFL/IELTS predictive tests and TOEIC will not be accepted)
  -    TOEFL IBT 80
  -    TOEFL PBT 550
  -    ACADEMIC IELTS 6,5 overall score with a min. of 6 for writing
  -    CEFR B2 Issued by a European university language centre
  -    ESOL CAMBRIDGE English CAE (Advanced)

Scholarships

• VLIR-UOS Scholarships
• Master grants
• University Development Cooperation Programme