Sustainability Science: Resources, Materials and Chemistry (M.Sc.)
Kurzbeschreibung
Every year, billions of tons of chemical products and materials are manufactured, contributing to our high standard of living and well-being. However, their production and usage also impose significant and intricate impacts on the environment. There is an urgent need for greener, more sustainable chemicals, materials, and products to tackle these challenges responsibly. Chemistry, both as a scientific discipline and an industrial sector, holds the potential to revolutionize material systems towards greater sustainability. The production and utilization of chemicals, materials, and products have far-reaching consequences for the planet, human welfare, justice, and health, both positively and negatively. Addressing these challenges requires a shift towards greener alternatives and more sustainable applications, offering effective solutions to meet the needs of humanity and societies in an environmentally responsible manner. Achieving sustainable development necessitates a reduction and transformation of resource consumption and material flows.
Vollzeitstudium
In this Master's Course, students are introduced to the significance of resources, material flows, and chemical products across various sectors, including industry and society, through a comprehensive understanding of full life cycle and systems thinking. Upon successful completion, students will possess the ability to comprehend the resource requirements for specific products, related issues, and potential alternatives, encompassing non-chemistry-based options like alternative business models. They will learn how to contribute to long-term sustainability by becoming familiar with metrics for greenness and sustainability assessment, such as the E-factor or life cycle assessment, and mastering benign design principles for chemicals, materials, products, and processes, including recycling and sustainable separation, within the framework of sustainable chemistry. This involves aligning their knowledge with cutting-edge references and understanding relevant legal regulations and directives.
The curriculum will delve into concepts of sustainable chemistry throughout the full life cycle of chemical substances, materials, and complex products. Emphasis will be placed on the importance of resources and their extraction, the potential and limitations of green chemistry, materials, and products, the specifics of renewable (i.e., bio-) and non-renewable resources (e.g., metals and other chemical elements), including their flows, recycling processes, resource loss through dissipation, safe and sustainable design principles, and other relevant topics such as new business models and international substance, material, and chemical management practices.
Proof of 60 ECTS in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Chemical Process Engineering, Teaching Chemistry, Materials Science, Pharmacy or other.
Proof of sufficient knowledge of English.
Semesterbeitrag: ca. 320€¹
In this course, foundational principles of natural and social sciences, sustainability, ethics, and economics are covered in the initial modules of the first semester. These include Sustainability Science, Transdisciplinary Methods, along with an introduction to Sustainable Chemistry and Green Chemistry, examining aspects such as Resources, Chemicals, Materials, Products, Recycling, and relevant international regulations.
Subsequent modules in the following two semesters delve deeper into topics such as Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Non-Renewable Resources, Renewable Resources, Circularity and Recycling, and Benign by Design. Students have the opportunity to select elective modules to specialize further in their chosen disciplines based on their interests. The fourth semester is dedicated to the development, writing, and defense of the Master's thesis.
Quelle: Uni Lüneburg
In a challenged and increasingly complex world, chemistry plays a key role to promote sustainable development, especially focusing on resources, chemicals, materials, products, their flows, processes, and end of live issues. Such knowledge will be indispensable for the transition to a sustainable future including the necessary transformation of the related industrial sector itself. Professionals with disciplinary, inter-, and transdisciplinary background related to both chemistry and sustainability at the same time are urgently needed and thus have a wide range of career options open to them – in research, in institutions and non-governmental organizations, politics, public authorities and businesses - even beyond chemical industries, and in related fields.
Quelle: Uni Lüneburg
Applications for the Masters Sustainability Science: Resources, Materials and Chemistry at the Leuphana Graduate School can be made easily online. The application deadline is June 1st for the winter semester (October).
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Quelle: Uni Lüneburg
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Standort Lüneburg
Uni Lüneburg
Universitätsallee 1
21335 Lüneburg
Vollzeitstudium