Sustainability Science and Policy

The Sustainability Science and Policy programme consists of four clusters:

  • Courses providing a scientific base in sustainable development and sustainability science
  • Courses in which you learn about governance and innovation for sustainable development
  • Courses in which you learn to design and apply sustainability assessment on a real-world sustainability problem commissioned by an external client
  • Master’s thesis in which you carry out independently in-depth research of a sustainable development problem or challenge

The Master's programme Sustainability Science and Policy consists of 60 ECTS

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PBL and Academic skills

Understanding sustainability

Course ECTS
Sustainable Development 5
Sustainability Science, Policy and Society 5

Policy for sustainability

Course ECTS
Governance for Sustainable Development 5
Sustainability, Law and the Environment 5
Innovation for Sustainable Development 5

Assessing sustainability

Course ECTS
Methodology for Sustainability Assessment 5
Sustainability Assessment Skills 4
Integrated  Sustainability Project 5

Master’s thesis on sustainability

Course ECTS
Research Approaches and Methods 2
Thesis Research Proposal 3
Master Thesis 15
ICIS - SSP - Programme Structure 2018-2019

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Registration form Dies Natalis 2018

If you have any questions regarding data science at Maastricht University, please feel free to contact us. We are more than happy to respond to your message.

A strong, vibrant and rewarding academic environment is essential for excellent Data Science research. Through a wide variety of community activities UM aims to foster an interfaculty environment for collaborative innovation in the development and application of data science technologies. The community activities will take place both online and offline. The online community platform will be a place to ask questions and to share events, news and success stories. Offline activities will entail seminars, workshops and symposiums.

Events

News

Synthetic data: a dangerous sense of certainty

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Dani Shanley and Joshi Hogenboom on synthetic data, the pains and gains of interdisciplinarity, and why AI likely won’t release us

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KE@Work: studying and working at the same time

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How an honours programme is staving off brain drain

In the KE@Work programme, students solve a complex, re

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Knowledge (Engineering) at Work

At FSE’s bachelor’s programme Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, KE@Work offers real-world challenges for high-performing students

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Should you trust a machine - and why?

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Artificial Intelligence (AI): is it an amazing technology that we need to implement absolutely everywhere, or a boogeyman that could spel

Prof. Nava Tintarev

I wrote all of this myself!!

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Special Chair of Text-Mining Jan Scholtes on how ChatGPT actually works, why it’s an amazing achievement and where we should probably exe

Jan Scholtes

Report after report indicates that we are simply not training enough data scientists to meet world demand. Within Maastricht University there are already numerous programmes and courses in the field of data science. The goal is to promote and strenghten these programmes to attract more students interested in a career in data science and provide them with high quality education.

On Sunday 26 November 2017, our dear colleague and friend Menno Knetsch passed away at the age of 50. Menno was a passionate biologist and biochemist. He joined Maastricht University in 2001, working in biomedical research and education. Soon thereafter, Menno started to teach at the University College Maastricht (UCM). Menno was coauthor on over 50 scientific papers, but will be most remembered as a passionate educator.

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IDS - Journal club

On Sunday 19 November, Jan Simon passed away at the age of 77.

ENLEB is a project in which Flemish and Dutch partners work together to encourage citizens to make their homes energy neutral and adaptable to meeting changing needs through all life phases. The aim of the project is the development of an integrated concept for making residential private homes more sustainable on the basis of co-creation, with the focus on self-sufficiency, so that homes remain energy-neutral even if the residents’ energy profile changes.

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Siemen shares his ENLEB experience

Siemen Brinksma started as a researcher at UM for the ENLEB project.

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