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The students:
- obtain insights into different sectors of environmental research,
- get to know current aspects and problems relating to phenomena of global change,
- develop an interdisciplinary perspective,
- learn to put contents of disciplinary courses into a wider context,
- learn to discuss different environmental issues.

Passing Sustanability and global change I at UKL first semester.

Lectures of experts in environmental sciences and related industry (2-3 hours)

Written 1page report of 12 lectures (4 per semester)

Global Change:
Scientists of the University of Koblenz-Landau and Brno University of Technology as well as external institutions present current approaches and results of environmental science research. The specific contents change from year to year.

Energy and Sustainability:
Sustainability
Energy sources of the world
Scientific foundations of energy aspects
Solar energy: solar modules, solar-thermal energy, power plants, photovoltaics, ecological aspects
Heat pumps
Geothermal energy

The students obtain insights into different sectors of environmental research and get to know current aspects and problems relating to phenomena of global change. They develop an interdisciplinary perspective and learn to put contents of disciplinary courses into a wider context.
Students deal extensively with the current debate on sustainability and energy, the get to know alternative energy concepts and are able to evaluate them from an ecological as well as economic perspective.

presence on seminars is compulsory