Nordic Master in Environmental Changes at Higher Latitudes (EnCHiL)
Master's degree, 120 credits
This programme is for you who are interested in the environmental and societal development of the Arctic. The Nordic Master in Environmental Changes at Higher Latitudes (EnCHiL) provides high quality two-year science education at the highest international level and a practical experience within the Arctic region.
About the programme
High latitude ecosystems and societies are changing at an accelerated rate. This is due to climate change, more tourism, increasing trans-polar transport and other economic activities. Therefore there is an increasing global need for experts having multidisciplinary training in environmental sciences to help the regions to work towards sustainable development within the framework of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
The EnCHiL Nordic Master programme offers international and Nordic students unique hands-on experience while addressing these important issues in a multidisciplinary environment and gives them opportunities to work with relevant Arctic topics in the wide network of the EnCHiL partners. To better understand the effects of changes in nature and society at high latitudes, this program presents the different biological, physical and social processes and how they interact in the arctic environments.
A joint Nordic master
The programme is a joint Nordic master, which means that students will graduate from two universities: the Agricultural University of Iceland and the University of Helsinki or Lund University. In addition, EnCHiL students will have access to courses and research projects at any of the EnCHiL associated partners: the University of Oulu in Finland, the University of Aarhus in Denmark, the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources and the Estonian University of Life Sciences.
Programme modules
Courses depends on starting location. For enrolling at Lund campus is the following course plan:
First year
- Greenhouse Gases and Biogeochemical Cycles, 15 ECTS, Lund University
- Statistical tools for climate and atmospheric science, 5 ECTS, distance learning
- Climate Change in the Arctic, 5 ECTS, distance learning
- Climate Now, 5 ECTS, distance learning
- Arctic forum, 5 ECTS, Agricultural University of Iceland
- EnCHiL forum ,1 ECTS, Agricultural University of Iceland
- Ethics and Philosophy of Science, 6 ECTS, Agricultural University of Iceland
- Communication, Knowledge and Extension, 4 ECTS, Agricultural University of Iceland
- Environmental Governance, 6 ECTS, Agricultural University of Iceland
- Arctic Planning and Environmental Changes, 2 ECTS, Agricultural University of Iceland
- First thesis presentation, 1 ECTS, Agricultural University of Iceland
- Sea Ice Ecology 5 ECTS, Greenland Institute of Natural Resources
Second year
- Courses at one of the EnCHiL partners 30 ECTS
- Thesis project 30 ECTS
Entry requirements
A Bachelor’s degree of at least 180 credits in physical geography, physics, or the equivalent, including a minimum of 90 ECTS of studies in natural sciences and technology, with a minimum average grade of at least C on the ECTS grading scale. English Level 6.
Applications and practicalities
Find all information and apply to this programme via the EnCHiL website - enchil.net.