Tropical Biodiversity and Ecosystems (Erasmus Mundus, start in Brussels)

This study track is composed as follows:

Semester 1: Basic and specialised introductory courses
Semester 2: In situ experience and specialised field courses
Semester 3: In-depth specialisation semester
Semester 4: Joint master's thesis

In the first semester, students start at the VUB/ULB to acquire similar competences. In the second semester, field experience and courses will take place in a university in a non-EU country. The third semester will cover a specialisation in a European university, different from the first one. Courses vary this semester. In the fourth semester, students return to where they started out for their thesis research.

Provided agreement by the inter-university jury the student can choose in each semester optional courses outside the proposed courses, but accepting the risk of overlapping schedules.

More information on www.tropimundo.eu.

Master of Science in Biology: Tropical Biodiversity and Ecosystems

Semester 1: Basic and specialised introductory courses - VUB/ULB Brussels

Compulsory courses (Brussels Courses)

Electives (Brussels Courses)

You choose a total of 15 credits of courses from the following options:

Semester 2: In situ experience and specialised field courses

During the second semester in situ field experience and courses will take place in one of the universities in the south with their specific expertises.

The courses heavily depend on the regional and geographic settings of the third-country Higher Education Institutes in the south, which in part shapes the specialisation of the student.

Compulsory

Field school

You select one of the following options (depending on the tropimundo trajectory)

Semester 3: In-depth specialisation semester

The Sorbonne Université, Paris (SU) and the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN)

Recommended

Optional

Florence: UniversitĂ  degli Studi di Firenze

Compulsory

Optional (at least 12 ECTS)

Université de la Guyane

Compulsory

Semester 4: Joint Master's thesis

Total number of ECTS
120