Study in Australia for one semester in 2012 - Global Environmental Sustainability studies for Science and Life Science students
The Global Environmental Sustainability Project - GESP – is a unique three-year mobility program with partners in Europe and Australia.
During the three 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 disciplicary coverage and a strong commitment to innovation and an inter-diciplicary 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.
Who can apply: For the application date 1 March 2012, all LIFE students who are studying within a field offered by the three Australian partner universities (see below for more information and links to websites) can apply. You must have studied for at least one year before starting your period of studies in Australia. The programme is most appropriate for BSc students but MSc students may also apply. MSc students should be aware that the Australian partner universities may have a limited course offerings at the MSc level. Independent studies at the MSc level may be possible.
Application forms must be submitted to:
Karin Klitgaard Møller
Executive consultant
Faculty of Life Sciences
or 35 33 20 47.
About our partner universities:
Participating EU universities
Participating Australian universities
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.
Andreas Thomas Hede Krøigaard, - last update:27 February 2012