Una Europa offers a new bachelor programme in sustainability to prepare future experts to tackle global challenges. Bachelor in Sustainability (BASUS) provides an opportunity to study sustainability with an interdisciplinary approach in an international context. By providing extensive education on sustainability, its various complexities and intersections of divergent disciplines, the programme aims to equip its graduates with necessary tools to forge a better future.
The program offers different study tracks:
- Sustainable Chemistry & Physics in Helsinki
- Law & Politics of Sustainability in Kraków
- Economics, Management & Engineering in Leuven
- Environmental & Life Sciences in Madrid
- Geography & Economy in Paris
- Social Sciences & Humanities in Zürich
Study at three of Europe’s most prominent universities
BASUS students will have the opportunity to study on-campus at three of Europe’s most prominent universities. Students will spend the first year of studies at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland studying sustainability from different perspectives. For the second and third year, students go on a mobility period to study in one of the 6 other degree-awarding universities to complete studies in the chosen study track: Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie, KU Leuven, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universität Zürich or the University of Helsinki.
Students can opt to go to a third university for the last semester of the studies - one of the awarding universities, or alternatively to University of Edinburgh, or Freie Universität Berlin. All the students graduating from the programme will receive a diploma awarded jointly by the six Una Europa universities.
Additionally, the programme aims to facilitate students’ participation in summer schools hosted by one of the partner universities, tackling more generic topics and issues connected with sustainability, as an optional elective during the course of the programme.
Application period is now open until May 28 and online entrance exam will take place in June. For more information, please visit the programme’s official website.
Una Europa is an alliance of 11 research-intensive European universities. In addition to the Helsingin yliopisto/Helsingfors universitet, the Una Europa alliance partners include Freie Universität Berlin, Alma mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, the University of Edinburgh, Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie, KU Leuven, Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Universiteit Leiden and Univesität Zürich.
University of Helsinki joined the alliance in 2019.