Science for Sustainable Development
The future needs sustainable solutions to today’s societal challenges. In this programme, you explore how to create holistic solutions to complex problems by crossing disciplinary boundaries. Climate change, natural resource exploitation, increasing energy demand and inequality are among the global issues you will study.
Science for Sustainable Development is a research-based master’s programme where you combine environmental policy, governance, strategy, and applied sustainability science. You learn to critically analyse environmental and social challenges and to design actionable, knowledge-based solutions that contribute to a more sustainable future.
Environmental strategy, resilience and sustainability in focus
Throughout the programme, you explore the complexity of building sustainable societies in alignment with the principles of sustainable development and Agenda 2030. You engage with environmental strategies and resilience and sustainability as key perspectives for understanding how societies can adapt and transform in the face of environmental change. You address global environmental challenges and societal transformations, apply scientific knowledge across academic disciplines, and develop interdisciplinary competence.
Develop skills for a career in sustainable development
Your studies enable you to interpret, design, communicate, and implement solutions to sustainability and environmental challenges – skills that will be indispensable for your future career as a sustainable development expert.
Hands-on learning and research integration
The core courses give you a broad perspective on sustainability and societal challenges while allowing you to deepen your theoretical knowledge and practical skills in specific scientific fields. Through field trips, laboratory and GIS exercises, and spatial analysis in the Norrköping Decision Arena, you connect theory and practice in sustainability.
You also take part in role-play activities, study visits to authorities and companies in the environmentally progressive Östergötland region and have the opportunity to complete an internship at a business, organisation or research institute in Sweden or abroad. Together with teaching staff, you develop skills in multidisciplinary research and gain experience in research-based methods.
Linköping University (LiU) offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on sustainability that bridges academic disciplines and integrates advanced research in environmental sciences. You receive individual supervision from active researchers when designing, planning and completing your master’s thesis project.
Na studia magisterskie mogą kandydować wszyscy, którzy ukończyli studia licencjackie lub inżynierskie (studia I stopnia), studia magisterskie lub studiują na ostatnim roku studiów I-stopnia. Studia, które planujesz powinny mieć zbliżony profil do tych obecnych lub ukończonych, ponieważ w procesie rekrutacji kluczowa jest ich zgodność programowa.
- Wykaz punktów ECTS – osoby, które są jeszcze w trakcie studiów, muszą załączyć wypis punktów ECTS, w którym będzie wykazane, jakie przedmioty były realizowane na studiach oraz ile punktów za nie otrzymano.
- Dyplom ukończenia studiów licencjackich lub inżynierskich – jeśli jesteś absolwentem wyższej uczelni, nie potrzebujesz wypisu, wystarczy załączyć dyplom ukończenia studiów wraz z suplementem (oryginał z tłumaczeniem przysięgłym)
Spełnienie wymagań w zakresie języka angielskiego można udokumentować w następujący sposób:
- IELTS - 6.5 (minimum 5.5 z każdej części) lub
- TOEFL – 90 (w tym minimum 20 z pisania). Wynik musi zostać przesłany na uczelnię bezpośrednio z centrum egzaminacyjnego.
*Wymagania językowe mogą się zmieniać i różnić w zależności od kierunku - przed aplikacją sprawdź wymagania bezpośrednio na stronie uczelni.
Selection will be based on academic merits.
Bachelor's degree in any field.
Sustainability challenges require diverse expertise and the ability to work across disciplines – skills you develop at LiU. The programme provides a strong basis for a career in sustainable development and environmental sciences.
Graduates from Science for Sustainable Development work in research institutes, universities, environmental organisations, NGOs, consultancies, river basin commissions, power companies, intergovernmental agencies and PhD programmes around the world. Few universities offer the same breadth of interdisciplinary perspectives in environmental sciences as Linköping University, with teachers representing the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering.
