Environment and Natural Resources (MENVI) – (M.Sc.)

Contents

The Master´s Degree Programme in Environment and Natural Resources (MENVI, 120 ECTS) consists of general studies, major subject studies, and multidiciplinary environmental studies.

The major subject studies include core studies in the study line selected by the student. The students choose the study line when they apply to the MENVI.

Study lines

Agroecology

Agroecology advances sustainable development in agriculture and food systems, with focus on ecological sustainability. The courses focus on agroecosystems, agrobiodiversity, and production systems.

Environmental Engineering in Agriculture

Environmental engineering studies interactions between agricultural production and the environment and the methods for measuring and modelling them. Environmental engineering develops production methods and production systems which are both ecological and economical.

Environmental Soil Science

Environmental soil science focuses on processes and phenomena occurring in soil. The interactions of soil with plants, watercourses and air are studied using chemistry, physics and biology.

Microbiology

Microbiology is a multidisciplinary science on the biology of microbial organisms, which are too small in size to be seen at cellular level without magnification by a microscope. Bacteria, archaea, yeasts and other fungi, and microscopic unicellular animals (protists) and plants (algae) are traditionally studied by microbiologists

Career Prospects

Agriculture is the major land use activity in Europe and globally with far-reaching impacts and is governed by a complex interplay of ecological, economic and social factors. Therefore, environmental experts with interdisciplinary skills are increasingly needed to address challenges related to the environmental impacts of agricultural production, in particularly sustained fertility of soils, also by novel technology.

The MENVI programme provides the student with an excellent basis for a career in environmental authorities, international development organisations, industries, consultancy, non-governmental organisations, as well as in research.

The interdisciplinary and international approach of the programme qualifies you for a broad range of employment opportunities both in Finland and abroad.

Accreditation

Finnish Universities are accredited by the law. Universities are responsible for the quality and continuous development of their education and other operations. Legislation also requires them to regularly perform external evaluations of their operations and quality systems and to publish the results of such evaluations. Finnish HEIs decide on their own quality systems, and the comprehensiveness, functioning and effectiveness of the systems are evaluated in the audits, which are valid for six years.

Funding details

This year, the University of Helsinki is giving over 50 start-up grants to qualified students who have been accepted to study in an International Master's Degree Programme (IMDP). The application for the grant was sent to all admitted IMDP students with the letter of acceptance. The amount of each grant being 1500 euro, they are not meant to cover all your living expenses, but we hope that the little extra money will help you to settle in Helsinki.

The Vice-Rector of the University of Helsinki announces the grantees in a ceremony in late September while the money will be transferred to the grantees in early November.

The International Student Grant is available for students who are admitted into the programmes below:

• Algorithms and Machine Learning
• Art Theory, Criticism and Management
• Atmosphere-Biosphere Studies
• Bayesian Statistics and Decision Analysis
• Bioinformatics
• Biotechnology
• Democracy and Global Transformations
• Economics
• Environment and Natural Resources
• Ethnic Relations, Cultural Diversity and Integration
• European Studies
• Food Sciences
• Forest Sciences and Business
• Forestry and Environmental Engineering
• Information and Communications Technology
• Intercultural Encounters
• Media and Global Communication
• Networking and Services
• Neuroscience
• International Business Law and Public International Law
• Plant Production Science
• Practical Philosophy
• Religious Roots of Europe
• Social Sciences
• Space Sciences
• Theological Work in Church and Society
• Translational Medicine

Criteria

You are eligible as soon as you have accepted placement and registered for studies at the University of Helsinki. In addition, you have to make your personal study plan (HOPS)