Tag: studies

Islands as Laboratories for Sustainability (ISLAs) Summer School 2024

We are excited and happy to share some highlights from the Islands as Laboratories for Sustainability (ISLAs) Summer/Winter School 2024. ISLAs is a yearly summer school initiative by the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Programme ISLANDS and the University of Groningen, Faculty of Spatial Sciences.

CAPonLITTER

Last week, three ISLANDS students attended the finale of CAPonLITTER, an Interreg Europe project in partnership with ULPGC’s ECO AQUA institute, Travel Without Plastic, Cabildo Fuerteventura, and Fuerteventura Patronato del Turismo.  At the event, hotel and resort managers presented their progress, pitfalls, and plans for continuing the reduction of plastic waste in their daily operations.…
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Watch the Information Webinar and learn more about the Erasmus Mundus Research Master program Islands & Sustainability, ISLANDS!

Do you want to learn more about being an ISLANDS student? You can now watch or re-watch the information webinar from February 29th below! Are you passionate about sustainable development and curious about planning for sustainable futures on islands?  Would you like to acquire practical, hands-on research skills within and beyond the university, engaging directly…
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Join our Webinar and learn more about the Erasmus Mundus Research Master program Islands & Sustainability, ISLANDS!

Webinar for Prospective Students February 29th 2024 Do you want to learn more about being an ISLANDS student? Join our webinar on 29th February 11:00 – 12:00 CET via this link: ISLANDS Webinar Session 1or  29th February 19:00 – 20:00 CET via this link: ISLANDS Webinar Session 2 During the webinar, you will: Are you passionate about sustainable development and…
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1st ISLANDS Conference, September 2023

Last month, the 1st ISLANDS Conference was held at the Faculty of Spatial Sciences at University of Groningen, bringing together all ISLANDS consortium universities, University of Groningen, University of the Aegean, University of Iceland and Universidad of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.  Over two days our students presented their inspiring research, shared innovative ideas and…
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Call for Applications 2024

Application deadline for scholarships is 15 January 2024, self-funded have until 1 April 2024 to apply for the 2024 intake of the ISLANDS MSc.

Dispatches from Bonaire

Four ISLANDS students ventured out to the Dutch Caribbean island of Bonaire to analyse the potential for “Community-Based Tourism”.

Life as an Islands-Student

Meet Sissal, one of the students who joined the Islands and Sustainability track of the Master in Spatial Sciences at RUG on which the new ISLANDS MSc is built upon.