Environmental Studies Universidade de Aveiro

Overview

The Master's programme in Environmental Studies at Universidade de Aveiro  builds on UA’s extensive expertise and experience in Environmental Engineering, reflecting the UA’s commitment to an educational project that promotes knowledge integration and a holistic approach. 

The program ensures transdisciplinary and comprehensive education within a European context, allowing students to develop skills that enhance flexibility and professional mobility.

Key facts

• Graduates of UA’s master’s program in Environmental Engineering are well-equipped to support society in designing, developing, and managing sustainable environments suited to a growing global population that increasingly demands efficient resource use. 

• These professionals are prepared to apply circularity principles, promoting waste valorization, reducing waste, and encouraging sustainable and responsible production cycles. 

• Additionally, they are skilled in leading multidisciplinary teams and collaborating with engineers and specialists from other fields to prevent, mitigate, and resolve environmental issues, as well as in influencing society, including policymakers, to adopt more sustainable practices.

Professional outcomes

• The Masters in Environmental Engineering (MEE) will be qualified to perform functions of senior staff in the most varied industrial and organizational areas of the public or private sector, whose activity involves, directly or indirectly, interaction with the environment. 

• The MEE will have the skills to develop environmental assessment activities, including diagnosis of contamination situations and preparation of environmental impact studies, environmental management, including planning of integrated environmental management systems, integrated control and treatment of pollution in its diferent compartments (water, air and waste), including design and operation of treatment systems/processes and technologies.