Bachelor "Driving Sustainable Change" at the University of Cologne
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The course aims to offer the “Greta” generation a home - this can be seen from the name.
The contents are less obvious: It is an economics degree with a social science direction with management elements, which is intended to enable students to penetrate the origins and consequences of climate change and social inequality.
"It is important that we deal with how we want to live together in our society," says Nicole Naeve-Stoss, who will head the mentoring program for the degree program.
Classes should be in English and in small groups;
every student undertakes to go abroad for at least one semester.
Bachelor "Industrial Engineering" at the Technical University of Hamburg
The subject of industrial engineering is really not new, but the TU Hamburg not only wants to focus on the topics of logistics and mobility in its course, but also teach future engineers how to make supply chains, autonomous vehicles, drones and electric cars as environmentally friendly as possible can align.
"Enabling the students to shape the mobility of people and goods of tomorrow in a sustainable way" is what the course director Heike Flämig calls it. Subjects such as mechanics, ethics and technology and transport planning are on the curriculum.
Sounds bulky, but the TU has come up with a nice-sounding abbreviation for its new course: "WILUM".
Bachelor “Nonprofit and NGO Management” at Trier University of Applied Sciences
This new course at the Trier University of Applied Sciences' environmental campus is also about learning to find solutions to the greatest problems of our time.
But in doing so, the students will concentrate on a future area of activity in clubs, foundations and associations.
Deutsche Umwelthilfe and the Global Nature Fund have already signed a cooperation agreement with the university.
"As more and more NGO executives will be retiring in the coming years, we are relying on well-trained young academic managers," says course director Klaus Rick.
The professor of environmental economics and his colleagues will - among many other aspects - teach climate protection management, fundraising and European environmental law.
Bachelor "Sustainable Engineering of Products" at the TU Braunschweig
The processes that made it possible to provide inexpensive heat, electricity or medicines have brought great prosperity to the West. They are not always sustainable. This is why this new course at the TU Braunschweig aims to teach people to look at the life cycles of products in their entirety and to develop environmentally friendly approaches in energy supply and process engineering. "In view of the enormous challenge of climate change, engineers with holistic thinking are required," says the responsible professor Georg Garnweitner. Because climate change requires international cooperation, the course is also geared accordingly: In the first semesters, the courses are offered in English and German, after which a change between the languages is planned.
Bachelor "Computer Science and Sustainability" at the University of Würzburg
It didn't take long to find a name for this new course - after all, there are more decisive challenges on this planet.
Here, students should learn how to set up energy-efficient IT systems and how computer science itself can help develop new technologies to slow down climate change.
For this reason, events on remote sensing of the earth's surface and the development of biological models are also on the curriculum.
Master “Climate, Earth, Water, Sustainability” at the University of Potsdam
When the activists of “Fridays for Future” demand: Listen to the science - then they mean graduates of courses like this one here.
The master’s abbreviation “CLEWS” cooperates with the Institute for Climate Impact Research, among others.
"Together we train the urgently needed specialists for climate and environmental protection," says the Vice President of the University of Potsdam, Andreas Musil.
In addition to the history of climate change and its dynamics, energy policy and science communication are also on the curriculum.
The entire course is held in English.
Master in Agricultural Biology at the University of Hohenheim
“Environmental protection, plant breeding, regional planning, food production, quality management. . . ”- Head of the course, Andreas Schaller, could probably name dozen areas in which he will later see his students. The master’s degree is intended to enable them to no longer think only in the classic disciplines that defined agriculture before climate change was recognized as an urgent problem. They can provide evidence of modules such as “Biodiversity and ecological interactions” or “The microbiome in interaction with animals, plants and soil”. Research into microorganisms in Hohenheim is ultimately intended to help optimize the feeding of farm animals and reduce the use of antibiotics.