Study programme
2024-2025
Model path part 1
Introductory Courses
You have to acquire all 15 ECTS-credits from the list below
Sustainable Cities
Data Management & Visualisation
Spatial and Sustainability Analysis Tools
Societal Perspectives on Urban Sustainability
City Labs
The core of the first year of the master’s programme consists of the three multidisciplinary CityLabs, with each partner university coordinating one CityLab.
You have to complete all CityLabs.
CityLab 1: The Urban Ecosystem - Conceptual Framework
CityLab 1: The Urban Ecosystem - Integrated Case
CityLab 2: Urban Resources - Conceptual Framework
- Gijs Du Laing
- Liesbeth Jacxsens
- Anastasia Papangelou
- Diederik Rousseau
- Sammy Verbruggen
- Siegfried Vlaeminck
- Géraldine Godts
CityLab 2: Urban Resources - Integrated Case
- Marjolein Vanoppen
- Anastasia Papangelou
- Géraldine Godts
- Dieter Vandenheuvel
- Arne Ven
CityLab 3: Human Health and Urban Liveability - Conceptual Framework
- Ben Somers
- Jean-Marie Aerts
- Peter Hoet
- Irina Spacova
- Dieter Vandenheuvel
- Bruno Verbist
- Liesbet Vranken
- Géraldine Godts
CityLab 3: Human Health and Urban Liveability - Integrated Case
- Ben Somers
- Jean-Marie Aerts
- Peter Hoet
- Irina Spacova
- Dieter Vandenheuvel
- Bruno Verbist
- Liesbet Vranken
- Géraldine Godts
- Anastasia Papangelou
- Arne Ven
Model path part 2
Internship
The Internship is a mandatory course in the Master’s programme. The internship can take place both in the first or in the second semester, depending of the availability of internship positions. In mutual agreement with the supervisors and the internship coordinator, the internship can also start in the summer holidays before the start of the internship year. The internship can take place abroad. The duration of the internship is (at least) 25 working days.
Professional Internship
You have also already followed the 3 courses of CityLab: Conceptual Framework.
Electives
You can personalise your study programme by taking elective courses (24 ECTS-credits). Advanced electives (min. 15 ECTS-credits) will deepen your understanding of the themes and technologies of the CityLabs. Electives of free choice (max. 9 ECTS-credits) will deepen or broaden your knowledge, attitudes and skills in other subjects.
Advanced electives for CityLab 1: The Urban Ecosystem
Urban Air Modelling
Urban Green Design and Management
Remote Sensing of Urban Systems
- Ben Somers
- Stef Lhermitte
- Bruno Verbist
- Géraldine Godts
Advanced electives for CityLab 2: Urban Resources
Renewable Energy
Technologies for Alternative Proteins
- Stefaan De Smet
- Filip Van Bockstaele
- Siegfried Vlaeminck
- Géraldine Godts
Environmental Technology: Waste
- Frederik Ronsse
- Stef Ghysels
- Géraldine Godts
Technologies and Infrastructure for Sustainable Water Use and Resource Recovery
- Marc Spiller
- Diederik Rousseau
- Stijn Van Hulle
- Siegfried Vlaeminck
- Géraldine Godts
Advanced electives for CityLab 3: Human Health and Urban Liveability
Environmental Epidemiology
Data mining
Bioresponse Measurements and Process Control
- Tomas Norton
- Jean-Marie Aerts
- Géraldine Godts
Free electives
For this part of the programme, you can choose freely (for max. 9 ECTS-credits) from the courses from other programmes at the University of Antwerp, Ghent University and/or KU Leuven, and/or from the suggestion list below (specifically put together for this Master’s programme).
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Political Ecology
- Maarten Loopmans
- Géraldine Godts
Smart Cities
Sustainable Food Systems
- Marijke D'Haese
- Joost Dessein
- Géraldine Godts
Environmental law
Master's thesis
The final part of the Master’s programme is an individual, multidisciplinary and scientific research project on a particular urban environmental problem that you will carry out as part of the Master’s thesis (30 ECTS-credits) in cooperation with the relevant research groups or in a company/organisation belonging to the programme’s work field.
Master’s Thesis, including research internship
2023-2024
Model path part 1
Introductory Courses
You have to acquire all 15 ECTS-credits from the list below
Sustainable Cities
Data Management and Geographic Information Systems
Societal Perspectives on Urban Sustainability
City Labs
The core of the first year of the master’s programme consists of the three multidisciplinary CityLabs, with each partner university coordinating one CityLab.
You have to complete all CityLabs.
CityLab 1: The Urban Ecosystem - Conceptual Framework
CityLab 1: The Urban Ecosystem - Integrated Case
CityLab 2: Urban Resources - Conceptual Framework
- Gijs Du Laing
- Liesbeth Jacxsens
- Diederik Rousseau
- Sammy Verbruggen
- Siegfried Vlaeminck
- Géraldine Godts
- Anastasia Papangelou
CityLab 2: Urban Resources - Integrated Case
- Gijs Du Laing
- Liesbeth Jacxsens
- Anastasia Papangelou
- Marjolein Vanoppen
- Géraldine Godts
- Dieter Vandenheuvel
CityLab 3: Human Health and Urban Liveability - Conceptual Framework
- Ben Somers
- Jean-Marie Aerts
- Peter Hoet
- Irina Spacova
- Dieter Vandenheuvel
- Liesbet Vranken
- Géraldine Godts
CityLab 3: Human Health and Urban Liveability - Integrated Case
- Ben Somers
- Jean-Marie Aerts
- Peter Hoet
- Irina Spacova
- Dieter Vandenheuvel
- Liesbet Vranken
- Géraldine Godts
- Anastasia Papangelou
Model path part 2
Internship
The Internship is a mandatory course in the Master’s programme. The internship can take place both in the first or in the second semester, depending of the availability of internship positions. In mutual agreement with the supervisors and the internship coordinator, the internship can also start in the summer holidays before the start of the internship year. The internship can take place abroad. The duration of the internship is (at least) 25 working days.
Professional Internship
You have also already followed the 3 courses of CityLab: Conceptual Framework.
Electives
You can personalise your study programme by taking elective courses (24 ECTS-credits). Advanced electives (min. 15 ECTS-credits) will deepen your understanding of the themes and technologies of the CityLabs. Electives of free choice (max. 9 ECTS-credits) will deepen or broaden your knowledge, attitudes and skills in other subjects.
Advanced electives for CityLab 1: The Urban Ecosystem
Urban Air Modelling
Urban Green Design and Management
Remote Sensing of Urban Systems
- Ben Somers
- Géraldine Godts
Advanced electives for CityLab 2: Urban Resources
Renewable Energy
Technologies for Alternative Proteins
- Stefaan De Smet
- Filip Van Bockstaele
- Siegfried Vlaeminck
- Géraldine Godts
Environmental Technology: Waste
- Frederik Ronsse
- Géraldine Godts
Technologies and Infrastructure for Sustainable Water Use and Resource Recovery
- Marc Spiller
- Diederik Rousseau
- Stijn Van Hulle
- Géraldine Godts
Advanced electives for CityLab 3: Human Health and Urban Liveability
Environmental Epidemiology
Data Mining
Bioresponse Measurements and Process Control
- Tomas Norton
- Jean-Marie Aerts
- Géraldine Godts
Free electives
For this part of the programme, you can choose freely (for max. 9 ECTS-credits) from the courses from other programmes at the University of Antwerp, Ghent University and/or KU Leuven, and/or from the suggestion list below (specifically put together for this Master’s programme).
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- - NNB
- Géraldine Godts
Europe's Climate and Energy Policy: Internal and External Dimensions
- Katje Biedenkopf
- Lien Bomans
- Jos Delbeke
- Valeria Zambianchi
- Géraldine Godts
Urban Political Ecology
- Maarten Loopmans
- Géraldine Godts
Smart Cities
- - NNB
- Géraldine Godts
Sustainable Food Systems
- Marijke D'Haese
- Joost Dessein
- Géraldine Godts
Master's thesis
The final part of the Master’s programme is an individual, multidisciplinary and scientific research project on a particular urban environmental problem that you will carry out as part of the Master’s thesis (30 ECTS-credits) in cooperation with the relevant research groups or in a company/organisation belonging to the programme’s work field.