The postgraduate courses, are semester-long, each corresponding to ten (10) credit units (ECTS):
MSc Specialization Area I: Sustainable Technologies for Exploitation of Energy Resources-Environment
1st semester
- Mandatory (2 of the following)
- Environmental Control Technologies in Energy Production
- Application of Geoinformatics, Satellite and Uncrewed Systems on the Energy Sector
- Reservoir Engineering for Hydrocarbon Production, Storage and CCS
- Elective (1 of the elective courses as shown in the corresponding table)
2nd semester
- Mandatory (2 of the following)
- Biofuels-Thermochemical Processes
- Fossil Fuels and Energy Transition
- Energy-efficient Mineral Processing Plant Design*
- Elective (1 of the elective courses as shown in the corresponding table)
3rd semester
- Postgraduate Diploma Thesis* (ECTS 30) MSc
*The course Energy-efficient Mineral Processing Plant Design and the postgraduate Thesis require the physical presence of the students in the department
MSc Specialization Area II: Sustainable Technologies for Exploration and Exploitation of Raw Materials-Recycling
1st semester
- Mandatory (2 of the following)
- Raw Materials Exploitation Methods with Low Environmental Footprint
- Sustainable Processing of Ores, by-products and Critical Raw Materials
- Porous Materials in Environmental Protection
- Elective (1 of the elective courses as shown in the corresponding table)
2nd semester
- Mandatory (2 of the following)
- Emerging Technologies for the Exploration of Raw Materials
- Instrumental Analysis for Raw Materials
- Modern Technologies for the Near-zero-waste Processing of Low-grade Primary Ores and Secondary Raw Materials
- Elective (1 of the elective courses as shown in the corresponding table)
3rd semester
- Postgraduate Diploma Thesis* (ECTS 30) MSc
* The postgraduate Thesis require the physical presence of the students in the department
Elective Courses (common to the 2 specializations)
1st semester
- Industrial Safety and Risk Management
- Trace Element Analysis
- Exploring Data Analytics
- Political Economy of Environment and Natural Resources
- Applied Geochemistry in Raw Materials Exploration and Mining
- Design of Sustainable Energy and Mobility Systems
2nd semester
- Selected Topics in Analytical Chemistry
- Advanced Geomechanics
- Mine Geotechnical Investigation
- Economic geology of industrial minerals and rocks
- Data science for Exploration and Exploitation
- Advanced topics in Applied Geophysics
- Seismic Signal Processing
- Environmental Economics and Policy
- Circular Economy
The language of instruction, presentations, examinations and the language of the Master's Thesis is English.