In addition to Bachelor level studies, HELSUS participates in the Master’s Programme in Environmental Change and Global Sustainability (ECGS) as well as the Master's programme in Urban Studies and Planning at the University of Helsinki. HELSUS is also involved in several doctoral programmes at the University of Helsinki.
The teaching of sustainability science contains Bachelor's level courses that are mainly taught in Finnish. Together they form the Multidisciplinary Environmental Module to which all students of University of Helsinki (also JOO-students) willing to integrate an environmental aspect to their professional expertise are welcome. After finalizing the module the student is able to understand the vast research field of environment-related disciplines.
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The module welcomes all University students, but it is mainly taught in Finnish. The module can be personally adjusted from 15 to 35 ECTS credits.
The core course, Multidisciplinary Environmental Research – Disciplinary Perspectives on Environmental Questions (5 ECTS), is compulsory for all students taking the module. In addition to this, students choose elective courses based on their own interests, helping to deepen and complement their disciplinary knowledge in environmental sciences.
Una Europa's joint Bachelor in Sustainability
The Bachelor in Sustainability (BASUS) is an interdisciplinary 3-year joint bachelor programme, co-created by 8 European universities of the Una Europa university alliance. It provides an extensive education on sustainability, its various complexities and intersections of divergent disciplines, aiming to equip its graduates with the necessary tools to forge a better future.
Students spend the 1st year at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, approaching sustainability from different perspectives and getting introduced to the various study tracks. In the 2nd and 3rd year, students complete studies in one of the six degree-awarding universities, depending on their chosen track. Students can spend the last semester at one of the eight participating universities.
All students graduating from the programme receive a diploma awarded jointly by the six Una Europa universities.
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HELSUS participates in the Master’s Programme in Environmental Change and Global Sustainability (ECGS) as well as the Master's programme in Urban Studies and Planning at the University of Helsinki.
Environmental Change and Global Sustainability (ECGS) is a multidisciplinary Master’s programme. ECGS offers a variety of modules integrating both natural and social scientific perspectives including phenomenon-based modules on the Baltic Sea and the Arctic as well as a variety of interdisciplinary fields such as climate change, food and consumption systems, urban studies and socio-ecological systems studies.
Upon graduating from ECGS, the student will have sufficient expertise in environmental sciences, sustainability sciences and environmental policy to act as a specialist in the public, private and third sectors, and they will have gained essential skills to undertake a career in sustainable business and communication.
The Master’s programme is taught in English.
The Master’s Programme in Urban Studies and Planning is a multidisciplinary master's programme at the University of Helsinki and Aalto University. The programme prepares students to excel as professionals capable of understanding and addressing complex urban development challenges. Students learn to address such challenges through a curriculum and pedagogical approach that includes interdisciplinary breadth as well as depth in core areas of knowledge, skill and practice.
The programme evolves around three major study lines: Peoples, Plans and Systems.
HELSUS is involved in several doctoral programmes at the University of Helsinki.
The Doctoral programme in interdisciplinary environmental sciences DENVI started in January 2014. It belongs to the Doctoral School in Environmental, Food and Biological Sciences (YEB) and is funded by the University of Helsinki. There are approximately 120 PhD students in DENVI.
The central themes of DENVI are environmental change and sustainable development as well as climate change, land use, and the Baltic Sea and its catchment area. The programme gathers together the essential fields of natural and social sciences, law and humanities that are needed to study the complexity of environmental change and pathways to sustainable development. DENVI aims to study environmental change from biological processes to environmental governance – seeking solutions for a more sustainable future. DENVI considers environment broadly from natural habitats to built environments.
AGFOREE is a Doctoral Programme in Sustainable Use of Renewable Natural Resources. It focuses on plant production, forests, domestic animals, technology, the environment and economy. Sustainable use of resources is imperative for the future of humankind, nature and planet Earth.
The Doctoral Programme in Political, Societal and Regional Change belongs to the Doctoral School in Humanities and Social Sciences. The PSRC has 240 doctoral candidates. Seventeen of them are funded by the Doctoral Programme. The PSRC is multidisciplinary by nature. It offers lectures, courses, seminars and conferences on a variety of topics from politics and history to research skills and supervision.
The Doctoral Programme in Social Sciences is a collaborative effort between a number of the social sciences at the University of Helsinki that aims to create the best research environment for doctoral training. It covers the widest areas of social science research in Finland: media and communication studies, social and cultural anthropology, social psychology, social and public policy, social work, sociology, and statistics.