Global Environmental Sustainability studies for Science and Life Science students

The Global Environmental Sustainability Project - GESP – is a unique 3-year mobility program with partners in Europe and Australia.

During the 3 years, a total of 32 EU students, including 8 students from the Faculties of Science and Life Sciences at the University of Copenhagen, will get the opportunity to study in Australia for one semester.

This unique student exchange program will build on existing international expertise in the diverse and dynamic field of Environmental Sustainability at our leading EU institutions and three leading Australian institutions: James Cook University (Queensland), University of Tasmania (Tasmania) and Flinders University (Adelaide).

All our Australian partners are research-based institutions with comprehensive disciplinary coverage and a strong commitment to innovation and an inter-disciplinary focus.

Students will receive a mobility grant of €5500. There are no tuition fees.

Applications should be submitted before March 1 2012 to the Faculty of Life Sciences.

Application date: 1 March 2012 for studies in Australia in the autumn of 2012.

Please find the respective addresses on the application form. All applications must be submitted in English.

Questions can be directed to:

Karin Klitgaard Møller

Executive consultant

Faculty of Life Sciences

or 35322047.

About our partner universities:

Participating EU universities

• University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland (www.dundee.ac.uk)
• University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark (www.ku.dk/english)
• Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria (www.jku.at/content)
• University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland (www.international.uni.wroc.pl)

Participating Australian universities

• James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland (www.jcu.edu.au)
• Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia (www.flinders.edu.au)
• University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania (www.utas.edu.au)

James Cook University conducts nationally significant and internationally recognised research in areas such as: Marine Science; Biodiversity; Tropical Ecology and Environments; Global Warming; and Sustainable Tourism.

The University of Tasmania is internationally recognised as a centre for marine and Arctic research and is home of the Antarctic Climate and Eco-systems co-operative research centre, a major contributor to world climate science.

It also hosts interdisciplicary research collaborations in forest ecology and fire, watershed management, energy efficient housing, wildlife disease management and the application of biotechnology to plant conservation.

Flinders University has 10 areas of strategic research investment and among these are Water and Environmental Sustainability. Flinders is also home to the newly established $45 million National Centre for Ground Water Research and Training funded by the National Water Commission and the Australian Research Council. It houses a globally-unique facility in Airborne Research Australia which has a full range of sensors for land and ocean remote sensing and meterological measures which can be mounted on four different aircraft. The Water Issues and Management and GIS and Remote Sensing Areas are built around two centres.

The Research Area of Molecular Technologies comprises innovative and cross-disciplinary research uniting nanotechnologists and biotechnologists in the task of improving people’s quality of life. Another key Research Area is Coastal and Ocean Science which utilizes links with Marine Biologists and Aquaculture specialists at Flinders to exploit teaching and research opportunities in the Spencer and St Vincent Gulfs through the Lincoln Marine Research Centre.