Water Technology (joint degree)

About this programme

Water is a defining component of our blue planet. Water is essential for all living organisms serving as the crucial link between the climate system, human society, and the environment. As populations grow and natural environments become degraded, ensuring everyone has safe and sufficient water supplies is becoming increasingly challenging. Enabling technology and good practices are key elements for resolving an imbalance between societal behavior and what the natural environment can offer. There is a clear and present need for breakthrough technology that cares both about intrinsically reducing our negative impacts like resource depletion and about enabling a productive, competitive economy for sustainable societies. \nIn this context, the MSc Water Technology programme aims to educate students to develop sustainable innovations and create new insights within the framework of the growing scarcity of raw materials (mainly water), energy, and associated pollution. \nThe MSc Water Technology has a clear scientific and technological approach and trains students to look at sustainable water treatment technologies in a broader perspective, focusing not only on the purification of water but also on the recovery of raw materials such as metals and nutrients from processing (waste) waters and the production of sustainable energy. \nThe master combines scientific knowledge mainly from the two domains of life sciences and physical sciences with applications from chemical and bioprocess engineering. Specifically in relation to water, the master covers natural phenomena, the technological applications of biological systems, and the engineering principles required to carry out (bio) chemical processes. \nMSc Water Technology graduates are trained to be professionals in the water sector, able to bridge science and engineering applications.