Water and Coastal Management

  MSc Water & Coastal Management

Degree: Double Degree Master of Science
Language: English
Tenure: two years
Fees: approx. € 1.600,00 per semester plus administration fee

Locations: Oldenburg (Germany) and Groningen (The Netherlands)

Persons in Charge

Prof.dr.ir. Paul Ike, coordinator (Groningen)

Prof.dr.ir. Johann Woltjer, speaker (Groningen)

Dr.Thomas Klenke, coordinator (Oldenburg)

Dr. Dietmar Kraft, speaker (Oldenburg)

WCM - Water and Coastal Management

Managing These Resources and Planning Their Use Is an Outstanding Job for Specialists! Only expert’s can handle the multidisciplinary demands necessary to organize water and coast. Our WCM-Master is innovative, important, and highly demanded. Studying WCM means:

• Studying essentials about the environmental-scientific background of water and coast, their ecology and interaction,
• Studying essentials about the socio-economics of sustainability and resource management,
• Being taught to connect the sciences, understand interactions, and think interdisciplinarily,
• Learning how to plan infrastructures, how to manage resources, how to support sustainability

The Experience-Based Curriculum Is Targeted on the Application-Oriented Focus of a WCM-Master.

We, the FRW and the ICBM, are well-established and international reputable research institutions, well versed in fundamental as well as application-oriented research. We are involved in international projects dealing with renewable energies, coastal protection, and global change. We do fundamental research on marine biology, coastal chemistries, and aquatic ecology; we explore the economies of sustainability, of new energies, and of environmental economics; we work on infrastructure planning, international planning practice, and planning theory. And with all this experience and knowledge, we teach you to be an expert in water and coastal management.