Global Challenges for Sustainability (Charm EU) Trinity College Dublin

Overview

Global Challenges for Sustainability (Charm EU) is offered by Trinity College Dublin. This international programme will employ innovative pedagogical approaches and mechanisms to engage staff and students of diverse backgrounds and disciplines to facilitate, foster and enhance the links between education, research and innovation. Furthermore, active engagement with CHARM-EU’s extended network of academic experts and extra-academic actors(i.e. business, community and society). increases the potential development and employability of our graduates.

Key Facts

The Masters degree is accredited and jointly awarded by the five CHARM-EU partner universities: University of Barcelona, Trinity College Dublin, Utrecht University, Eötvös Loránd University, and University of Montpellier. This programme is aimed at high quality graduates from diverse relevant backgrounds who intend to work in sustainable policy and communication roles, social innovation and action either within existing companies (intrapreneurship) or via generation of new enterprises (entrepreneurship), and academic research in this area. Graduates have pursued sustainable policy and communication roles, entrepreneurship, sustainability specialist and consultancy roles within a wide range of companies, as well as further academic research. Delivered full-time over 18 months, this 90-ECTS Masters degree is comprised of a 30 ECTS preparatory phase containing modules on sustainability, social innovation and transdisciplinary research; a 30 ECTS flexible phase with transdisciplinary modules related to water, food or life and health; and a 30 ECTS Capstone on a sustainability challenge in collaboration with extra academic actors.