MWS – Master on Continental Water Sustainability

The technical objective of MWS is to develop the concept and a syllabus for an innovative Master Course for the sustainable management of continental water socioecosystems, including best capacities of EUCOR partners of Strasbourg, Freiburg and KIT-Karlsruhe, and their local partner “National School for Water and Environmental Engineering from Strasbourg” (ENGEES). To achieve this goal in close collaboration with all partners, a course administrator will be employed to discuss with the lecturers and identify adequate course units that could be shared between universities. In combination with the new syllabus, course units will be created to enable students to combine knowledge from different sciences and develop adaptive, innovative and sustainable solutions. During the second year of the project, the M1 (first year of the MSc course) will be held as “test run” at Strasbourg university, the second year (M2) is planned to take place in Germany. All efforts will be taken to implement the course and sustain it (as a 2-year MSc) in the future. The academic objective of the course is to join forces to overcome various ‘boundaries’: (i) interdisciplinarity, especially communication between social sciences and natural sciences, (ii) institutional lock-in effects, hampering collaboration between scientists and practitioners, (iii) national and cultural boundaries at the Upper Rhine, representing an exceptional area for bridging and developing joint water sciences, innovation and learning opportunities, and (iv) global environmental problems.

Ansprechpartner: Blöthe J
Tel: 203 9224

Projektbeginn: 01.09.2022
Projektende: 31.08.2024

Blöthe J, Imfeld G, Wittmann F

Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

• EUCOR, Sonstiges