Environmental Technologies University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland

Overview

The climatic change, rising resources demand and increasing diffusion of new pollutants requires specialists in environmental technology and circular economy by global leading industrial companies. 

Key Features

Students in the Environmental Technologies degree at University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland are taught environmental risk assessment, where the fate and effects of environmental pollutants are addressed. Two modules address technologies and concepts for water resource protection: enhanced water and wastewater treatment, and the management of water resources for industry, agriculture and households.

 A special focus is sustainable industrial production processes, which are covered in three modules: one deals with economic and environmental aspects of sustainable production and the concept of the circular economy. 

The second looks at mass flow analysis and resource recovery, while the third discusses environmental process technologies to minimize pollution from industrial production sites. Two further modules complete this analysis of how to minimize the negative impact of pollutants in soil, water and air: waste management and technology, including resource recovery; and environmental remediation which highlights physicochemical and biological technologies to remediate contaminated sites.