The Norwegian University of Science and Technology is a public research university in Norway with the main campus in Trondheim and smaller campuses in Gjøvik and Ålesund. The largest university in Norway, NTNU has over 8,000 employees and thousands of students. NTNU is a young institution with a long history. The university, in its current form, was established in 1996 by the merger of six research and higher education institutions in Trondheim. The university's root goes back to 1760, with the foundation of Det Trondhiemske Selskab (Trondheim Academy), which in 1767 became the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters.

NTNU has a main profile in science and technology, a variety of programmes of professional study, and great academic breadth that also includes the humanities, social sciences, economics, medicine, health sciences, educational science, architecture, entrepreneurship, art disciplines and artistic activities.

The programme runs full-time over 24 months (120 ECTS) and consists of advanced courses (90 ECTS) and a Master Thesis, with a dissertation (30 ECTS).

During Semester 1, students will follow different individually tailored combinations of courses integrated in one of the fundamental modules (1-5) in UBx, ULiège or UPPA.
During Semester 2, they will follow another individually tailored combination of courses integrated into the advanced specialised modules (6-10) in NTNU, UPO or EHU.
During Semester 3 the students must follow the compulsory INCyTA course (6 ECTS) as a part of the Module 10.
The MSc Thesis research is undertaken during Semester 4 (30 ECTS) and consists of a 5-6 month research under the supervision of a PhD holder.
Every student will follow a Joint Programme, by combining the different disciplines that can be studied at each of the Partner universities (these are the complementary profiles in which each Partner excels and, as such, recognized internationally):

Pollutant Biogeochemistry and Integrative Ecotoxicology in UBx;
Water and Wastewater Pollution in UPPA;
Marine Ecology and Ecotoxicology in ULiège;
Arctic Contamination and Toxicology in NTNU;
Applied and Regulatory Ecotoxicology in UPO;
Advanced Analytical Chemistry and Translational Ecotoxicology in EHU.
The coursework is arranged in 10 modules:

MODULE 1: Biogeochemistry of Environmental Pollutants
MODULE 2: Fundamentals in Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
MODULE 3: Environmental Analytical Chemistry
MODULE 4: Advanced Ecology
MODULE 5: Environmental Data Analysis
MODULE 6: Advanced Environmental and Analytical Chemistry
MODULE 7: Applied Ecology and Ecophysiology
MODULE 8: Advanced and Applied Ecotoxicology
MODULE 9: Environmental Risk Assessment and Management
MODULE 10: Researcher’s Career
Throughout the coursework, students can make a selection between alternative mobility pathways; choosing one of these pathways is not a requirement and they will not appear as specialisation in the Joint Diploma and EDS. Through any of the pathways, the students have the opportunity to travel, from chemistry and molecular biology to ecological and management issues and from short-term responses of living systems to chemicals to their long-term; thus achieving a translational science background. All the students follow advanced courses in UPV/EHU in Semester 3, with a relevant, but not compulsory, imprint in the field of advanced environmental risk assessment and skills for a researcher’s career in ECT.

The coordinator of the program is

University of the Basque Country
For further information and admission requirements, please visit the webpage for this program.

You will need to book the accommodation after you have been accepted.

You can choose to live on campus or off campus in private accommodation.

• Make a booking online after you have been accepted (in this case please let us know your choice when you apply).
• Register when you arrive - its not possible to reserve a room before arriving. You can arrive a few days before and book it